Behind The Castle's

**TEH AFTERNOON**

After Fredrick escorted Victoria to the front door of the park, Victoria immediately stepped into the park and widened her gaze when her feet had stepped on the cement of the main palace garden, there, there, on the right side of the garden, in front of the fountain pool, there is a long table with nine seats, on the table has been presented a variety of snacks arranged beautifully on multi-story plates and open cups. On the right side not far from the table, there were four servants standing beside their trolley.

"My Lady, they've been waiting"

The words of a servant made Victoria give a short nod and step more and more into the palace garden. On the left side of the park there is a long chair facing each other, there are some noble girls who are chatting while occasionally smiling amusedly, there are some noble girls, Victoria further sharpened her field to find two girls who were reported to be getting an invitation letter and also became the reason for Victoria to have enough spirit to do things that are not in her heart right now.

A banquet full of rules and tattoos, a polite and timid smile, graceful and gentle gestures, unable to voice opinions but able to gossip at will, he said, even to throw a breath in public a Lady has rules.

As Victoria drew near, the few Ladies who saw her arrival immediately stood up smiling, including the two girls who were greatly missed and waiting for her

"Good day Ladies..."

With the grace of Victoria greeting them, the eight Ladies in front of her one by one returned Victoria's greetings and became acquainted. Victoria tried to remember their names without caring about their last names. Annas, Ribca, Cecil, Amelia, Lissa and, it was time for the girls she was waiting for to return her greeting, Victoria immediately took off her flat face and smiled warmly.

"Good afternoon Lady Victoria, I'm Juliet Rubens"

With a warm smile and a warm face Victoria replied

"Hallo Lady Juliet Radellae Rubens"

Lady Juliet who heard her cousin mention her full name out loud, with sparkling eyes immediately winked her one emerald eye at Victoria. Victoria blinked one eye back and shifted her gaze to the side, to the girl she was waiting for

"Good afternoon Lady Victoria"

With teary eyes and a slightly quivering voice, the two girls hands clenched her dress, as if holding back from immediately jumping to hug Victoria

"Good afternoon Lady Easter Carollina Xenuds"

Lady Easter bit her lip with a haru look that Victoria responded with a wink in her one eye.

Victoria again shifted her gaze to another Lady who had been looking at her fixedly, and lips that revealed Culas's smile

"Good afternoon Lady Victoria, how are you?"

With a friendly face and lips that were increasingly smiling widely to the point of grin Victoria looked at the girl and replied

"Hallo"

'Areally who made this invitation?'

Victoria began to wonder

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The chat on the table began to run and at the beginning by asking each other the news, the stale by praising each other's dresses and jewelry, how the weather, how the, the trite bases asked each other for news of their families and explained the latest stories about their families and many other trite bases that did not interest Victoria. But with a calm and thin smile Victoria followed the game on the table with always glancing at each other at Juliet and Easter who also looked lazy.

"I heard that at the engagement party of Lady Victoria and His Highness Prince Fredrick. Lady Calista and Lady Victoria got into a fight?"

Gracefully Victoria sitting in the main chair stared at the questioner Victoria remembered named Lissa

"That's just a little bit of a game we did Lady Lissa" Victoria shifted her eyeballs to stare at Calista who looked indifferently sipping her tea. "His Highness Prince Fredrick and His Highness Prince Henry are friends with Lady Calista which means, Lady Calista is also my best friend. Isn't that Lady Calista?"

Calista casually nodded and with a calm face looked at his surroundings

With a very friendly face Calista looked at Victoria who also gave a smile no less friendly. From the tail of her eyes, Victoria glanced at Easter and Juliet who were nodding their heads dramatically, which made Victoria's lips twitch withholding amusement

"I heard His Highness Prince Fredrick, His Highness Prince Henry and you're so close to Lady Calista, is that right?"

Back Lady Lissa opened her voice, and with lips still smiling kindly Calista replied casually

"True Lady Lissa, the three of us have been best friends from childhood"

"Is it because Baronnes Gafton befriended the late Her Majesty Queen Rosemary, Lady Calista?"

Without restraint, Victoria immediately joined the chat. Calista shifted her gaze and looked at Victoria with a faint smile

"You know it's Lady Victoria? where did you hear that story?"

With lips that were already smiling curiously, Calista looked at Victoria who looked calm and relaxed

"Why should you ask Lady Calista, wouldn't it be natural that Lady Victoria knew the story of her best friend?"

Juliet answers Calista's stupid question to Victoria. Calista's rarity made all heads look at her in bewilderment, but not Victoria, Juliet and Easter who instantly lifted their teacups to sip tea

"I'm sorry, because it's usually Fred" Calista ransacked and put a hardened face on all the heads there. "I'm sorry for my disrespect because we're rarely formal, my max His Highness Prince Fredrick rarely talks about the past or.. " Return Calista searched and looked at Victoria. "Or Lady Victoria heard the story of His Highness Prince Henry? because you look so close, and during the festival, isn't His Highness Prince Henry your partner and sitting side by side in the couple's seat?"

Calista's words made all the captains turn their heads and all eyes looked at Victoria. Relaxed and calculating as well with the preparation Victoria replied

"Of course we're close, because we're going to be a family later, so what's wrong if we're near Lady Calista? or do you have a different understanding of the closeness of the prospective brother-in-law and prospective family?"

After Victoria's speech slid, Juliet and Easter immediately attracted their audience curry. The other ladies stared in the quarantine between Victoria and Calista with enthusiastic faces and waited.

"True Lady Victoria, although I don't think that your closeness is different, but a closeness does often make others think differently, evident closeness during the festival made the rumor less pleasant that was addressed to Lady Victoria. Actually.." Calista looked at Victoria and her eyeballs moved on all the faces on the table. "Actually I am quite concerned about you who are attacked by bad rumors"

While putting on a regretful face and several times blinked his eyes slowly at Victoria. Calista has already started his assault on Victoria

Victoria leisurely lifted her spoon and stirred her stirred tea, then gracefully put the spoon back while looking at Calsita.

"I also understand how you feel Lady Calista, because we are in the same position. I'm also concerned about the rumors..." Victoria also put on a sorry face and blinked her eyes several times slowly, "about the rumor that says if you always try to tease the two Princes in order to crawl to reach a place and name in the palace"

After Victoria's reply, Juliet who always put up her telematnnnya almost choked biscuits that almost passed her throat. Easter who was about to put the biscuits into her mouth again immediately stopped her hand that was already in front of her mouth. The Ladies immediately covered their mouths with shocked faces and Calista.......

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The To Be Continued.....

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