I walked down the long hallways of the castle, the hallway was covered with photos and paintings of my family, most of the photos were taken by my Pa and were of my Nana or my mum. I stopped at the picture of Jaakob and me when I was seven and he was three, we were smiling as we hugged each other, I remember when that photo was taken, we were happy.

As much as I wanted to remain to look at the happy memory of my childhood, I had one last date for the day. My date with Sir Theodorus or Theo as he prefers was fun, I learned a lot about him and he learned a lot about me. My other date, with Sir Alfie, wasn't bad but... I didn't enjoy it as much as my date with Theo.

It was now time for my date with Sir Elliot, I'm honestly not sure how I feel about this date. Sir Elliot seemed uncomfortable around me when we first met, hopefully, this date won't be a repeat of that. At dinner I told him to meet me in the gardens for our date, I was currently running late but Sir Elliot was probably late too as the selected get confused by the castle.

As I walked to the gardens, I heard the quiet sound of Sir Elliot's voice, "Just have fun, she may be a Princess but she is still a normal human being, just treat her like Lizy." That was the first thing I have heard Sir Elliot say, wow, his voice is nice.

"Who's Lizy?" I ask as my body comes into full view, I saw the moment his body tensed and the familiar uncomfortableness within him rise.

He looked down to his feet as he spoke, "My sister."

A bright smile appeared on my face, he had a sister! That is progress from when we first met, when we first met I didn't even know the sound of his voice, "Lizy is a very pretty name."

"Thank you." There was an awkward silence between us as I gave him the time to maybe suggest an idea or something, "Her real name isn't Lizy though, it's Elizah."

"Well, Elizah is equally a pretty name."

There was another moment of awkward silence between us, this time I gave in and was the first to approach a sentence, "So what do you want to do for our date?" As I asked Elliot he looked at me with a confused look on his face.

"Aren't you only allowed to plan dates?"

"Technically yes, but I wanted our date to be fun for both of us."

My mouth opened once more to fill the silence, "I like cooking," Elliot spoke before I got the chance too.

"A cooking date it is!"

It was just after diner so we couldn't make a dish or anything too filling, "Why don't we make caramel slices?" He suggested. My parents' friend, Henri, used to let me help him cook in the kitchen, I learned quite a bit but that was years ago and I am still rusty. Talking about Henri, where is he? My light blue eyes searched the room but I couldn't find his wide blond and grey curls, that odd, Henri almost never left the kitchen on a weeknight, though, it was late.

"Caramel slices sounds delicious! What ingredients do we need?"

He spoke, his words so soft that it was barely above a whisper, "Get the dark chocolate and grated coconut, please, princess."

Walking over to the pantry which was stocked with delicious and fragrances, small memories of dad and Henri teaching me to cook, a small smile was placed on my face as I placed the memory to the back of my mind and walked back over.

Struggling as he hugged the rest of the ingredients in his arms made my smile turn into a small laugh, "Sir Elliot, do you need any help?"

"Princess, could you mix the dry?" I nodded and walked over to the medium bowl with the grated coconut, brown sugar, self-raising flour and mixed it into a crummy base, Sir Elliot was melting the chocolate when I looked over to him. He looked so peaceful as he kept to himself if he is so uncomfortable around me, why did he join the selection? Did he join voluntarily or was he forced?