Chapter 23 Part 1 "De keuze van de prinses"

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*Play the song above for the theme of this part.

POV Sofia

Het Loo Palace, a palace that is also functioned as a museum where the left side of the palace building is the place where I live with my father and mother, at least that's how they feel but not me, this place feels more like a prison to me, a place where I have to act and speak like a European royal and not being myself.

Het Loo Palace, a palace that is also functioned as a museum where the left side of the palace building is the place where I live with my father and mother, at least that's how they feel but not me, this place feels more like a prison to me, a pla...

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When I set my foot here again after not being home for a long time, my parents immediately hugged me and asked how I was doing with a sad and worried tone. I know they love me and must be very worried about me and I love them too but for some reason, I don't feel like I can give them the same love that I gave to mr. Wisnu.

In this palace, the gazes of the servants and palace guards have never distracted from watching over me since the attempted assassination on me was carried out. They all look at me and sometimes giving me a friendly smile and asking if I'm okay or not but I feel like everything that they do for me is just a lie because I don't know what's in their heart and what do they think about me who is close to sinjo Karim and also, their eyes that are always watching me make me always feel a great sense of fear when I take ablution water and perform prayers, this palace is truly not a home, but rather a prison.

A few days after my arrival they both questioned me about the people who tried to kill me then I told them what really happened, from my decision to end my relationship with heer Vinno because of his treatment towards me to my struggle with my friends to free sinjo Karim from prison and every obstacles and dangers that me and my friends have to go through until finally sinjo Karim was released from prison and then showed them the evidence of the rottenness and the cruelty of the Neo-NSB party that is currently in power in the VSI and their secret unit that is called as the SSE.

After carefully listening to my explanation, they decided to make a schedule so that my parents and I could meet with His Majesty the King of the Netherlands so we could think about how we could stop all this mess before it got any worse. In addition, they also accepted my decision to end my relationship with heer Vinno and will announce my relationship termination with him to the mass media so that people stop making gossip and rumors about my romantic relationship.

They also asked me about my relationship with sinjo Karim in a worried tone and when I heard my parents asked me about my relationship with him in that worried tone, that's when I knew if I told them about my true feelings for him something bad might happen to me. So, I told them that I only thought of him as a close friend that made my heart feel like it was being slashed by a sharp knife when I told them that but I had no other choice, I don't know what would have happened to me if I told them the truth, all I can do is keep this feeling to myself and hope that Allah will show me a way out.

My parents also asked His Majesty the King of the Netherlands to make a koninklijk besluit so that the campus where I studied sent lecturers who could teach me at the palace so that I would not be left far behind with my peers. Yes, I'm going to spend a semester in this palace at least until things get better and they feel it's safe enough for me to rejoin with society.

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