PRINCESS// MICHAEL CLIFFORD

Chapter 4

I've been through many bad moments in my life, moments that I hoped would end as soon as possible.

Like that time I had to wait for the release of the new Versace collection, such an infernal waiting, or like when I have to do the waxing, that is a hard time for everyone.

There are worse moments than others and people like me are able to make a list of these situations. Surely at the first place stands that time I had to wear such a tight dress that I could hardly breathe and walk at the same time, but at the second place, for sure, stands this moment.
Locked in the car with jailed killers without my pink cashmere pillow, I want to die.

"Princess you're worrying me, Why don't you talk anymore?" Ashton asks turning towards me.I give him my dirty look, I feel like there's no air between the two boys who are now quietly chatting, I'm trying not to touch neither Calum's leg nor Luke's arm, I feel like a sardine in a can.

"May I be informed about the route we're taking?" I ask the driver, the blue haired boy who's looking at me through the rearview mirror before smiling and ignoring me.
"Excuse me, I asked you a question and I would appreciate an answer" I say raising the tone of my voice and calling for the attention of the two poor idiots beside me.
"I heard you Paris Hilton, but I don't want to answer" Michael says while driving, I clench my fists and at the corner of my eye, I can see Calum chuckle. How dare these farmers in skinny jeans teasing me like this?

"You may not understand it, but if I place a question, being a Princess, I demand an answer and eventually a bow, too" I say and Luke looks at me almost scared because of the tone I'm using with his friend.
"You are nobody to tell me that, little girl" Michael says. I am appalled because of the pet name, little girl? Who does he think he is talking to? His hairdresser?

"Don't talk to me like that" I say screaming. Caught off guard, Michael loses control of the Jeep but he immediately regains it.
"Are you crazy?!" The weird blue haired boy asks me screaming and I pull myself back together while moving a lock of my blonde hair behind my right ear.

"No I'm the Princess Rebecca Elizabeth Collins daughter of ..." I start but he interrupts me once again.
"Please find the button to turn her off or I swear I'll keep her quiet my way" He says rudely. My blood runs cold so I decide to shut up.

"You see them too, right?" Luke asks Calum pointing at something on the ground. I lean out trying to figure out what they're talking about but all I see is trees.
"Rebels' signs, there is probably a group around here. It shouldn't be too big, but they must be young. They've left too many traces" Ashton says and I can finally see the famous signs on the trees they were talking about. It's a weird sign composed of two circles: a smaller one that joins a bigger one.
"I've already seen those" I say and the guys pay attention to me, I feel their gaze burning on my skin so I keep talking.

"Some time ago I was walking in the city and I saw that red sign on an house's door. My bodyguards got very concerned and after taking me away they knocked down the door and arrested the owners, some rebels" I say while remembering the scene "I just wanted to buy a new pair of earrings quietly but it is obvious that a Princess cannot pass a day in peace" I say and Michael shakes his head.

"Wow, powerful people get random people arrested. You really know how to make things right" Michael ironically says and I turn to him.
"I do my duty. I protect myself and my people"  I say raising my head. Michael laughs bitterly.
"Yes, but you save yourself first and then, if there's time, you think about others, you're such a kind and good ruler, aren't you" He says and I'm about to properly respond when Luke interrupts us.

"An abandoned supermarket"  the blonde says. The structure is in very poor condition indeed, I look around and I see that we are still within the perimeter of the city.