For those who are curious, I dedicated this chapter to HermioneForever because she is just a plain, awesome writer who deserves respect! Love ya!

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Chapter 11

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Ice

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 I can't believe I broke like that. It's as if, just his presence breaks the walls that I have been building for so long now. I feel so weak. I hate feeling weak. We had finished painting over my awesome mark about an hour ago and now sit in his study room. After some argument, I had won his twirly chair and was staring at the plain white ceiling, bored and fidgety. He sits as his desk reading over piles of documents full of words. His face tired from all the reading.

 "Do you need help?" I asked on the whim. It's pitiful watching him have to handle all this work by his own.

 "And you could help how?" He answered sarcastically.

 "Sorry for offering, geez. Offer some kindness, get slapped in the face. Next time, remind me not to be so nice."

 He sighed. "My dear Ice, you are a leader of a rebellion. As kind as you may be, more like bratty and annoying, but do you really think I could trust you with confidential documents of the Royal Palace?"

 "Oh those." Stretching out my limbs which have started to fall asleep.

 "I probably have read every single one of those documents and have stored and organised somewhere in my study. I probably also have most of your information memorised. For example, the fact that the oh so mighty, glorious king who deserves all the respect in the world is wasting money to take a nice vacation in the Bahamas for two weeks in 3 days time. Hooray. Too bad I'm already here, I was planning to break in again during that time period." I stated.

 It was the truth and I didn't see the need to hide it anymore. There was no point in keeping it and revealing the truth only made him uncomfortable. Something I loved. Not to be stalkerish or anything, but I needed to make sure I knew every move of the Royal Palace so that I could keep track and plan attacks.

 "Great. Fantastic. Good to know that you are up to date. Less reason to trust you."

 "I'm surprised we are so civilised?" I voiced.

 "Would you rather we not? I can have you thrown in the dungeons." He retaliated.

 "No, no. I'm fine with what I have. Just curious. Though I've seen your dungeons, they are pretty gruesome by the way. Can't you at least clean it once a week?"

 Another half an hour passed. Boredom had grew even more on me. I looked at the map that was located behind him.

 "Nalver, Anatolia, Oakshow. Pidge River, King's Cross, Queen's Lake. Lyon County, Dogger County, Snow County. Hey that's where I'm from. Ooo, there's Hogwarts too as well as Narnia, Neverland and Wonderland. Sweet."

Flame had stopped to glare at me in both annoyance and amusement.

 "Seriously? Was that really necessary? Was it really necessary to list all the counties in the country as well as places that don't exist, at least in this country?"

 "Yes, yes it was and for your information, Hogwarts, Narnia, Neverland and Wonderland do exist. You are just too blind to see them. Also, you keep me in a room with nothing to do. I will do something very annoying. For starters, I will turn off your computer."

 My hands move slowly towards the computer as he moves it out of my reach. Smart move, boy, but doing that is no fun. Dang it. Bring it back here. I reached to try to turn it off again.

 "You haven't change much, have you? You are still the annoying brat that you are years ago."

 "I haven't? Have I? What? You confuse me, stop confusing me."

 He face palms himself. Then pulls out a book from the bookshelf beside him and throws it at me.

 "Read this and keep yourself occupied. You are distracting me from my work. Shoo."

 "Don't shoo me, I'm a nice distraction, you like me distracting you. Hmmmm. What is this? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K Rowling. I've read this before, a thousand times that I could probably recite this book backwards, and see, Hogwarts!"

 I opened the front cover.

 "Hey! I gave this to you!  For your super awesome 7th birthday which the party was put together by the super cool moi! See it says right here. 'Dear Flamie, Happy 7th Birthday! I know you love magic and fantasy books! Heard that this is the latest thing! Don't know how since I read it like a year ago. Also, Star told me you have been begging to buy this book so here you go! Your Super Awesome Fantastic Bestie, Ice.' You kept this? Aw, how sweet! So you do love me!"

 He flushed bright red and scowled.

 "What! It is a perfectly good copy of the book. I wasn't going to waste money to buy I new copy just because it was given to me by an idiot. I should have though, now that I think about it."

 My smirk grew wider. I probably looked like the Cheshire cat by now.

 "Aw, Flamie, you didn't deny the fact that you loved me! So you do love me! Otherwise you would have denied the fact immediately."

 His scowl grew deeper and his face flushed in redder. The blush had made his ears rudolph red. It made me want to pinch his cherry blossom cheeks, hard.

 "Stop it! Stop right this instance!"

 "Didn't deny it again Flamie!"