Elena; Queen of Ardorarias

Part 17; Rave Josha

"Okay training today is enough. You can rest for a while to perform tonight."

Manager of grub band Rias—group band with lead vocalist Rave Josha—stop their rehearsal. The return of the phone belonging to the four members, then passed from the training room.

Getting his phone back, Rave and the others immediately sat on the couch of the practice room. The four members are busy with their respective phones, utilizing to give family news or just look at social media, before their phones are again saved by the manager.

> Elena, how are you?

> In the next few days I will be performing at Greekaloca and tonight, the first night I perform here.

> I hope you're okay. Miss you.

After sending a short message to Elena, Rave had no idea what to do. Time off is still quite a lot for him but he does not know what to spend his time for. Tried to call Elena, but Elena's phone was off. It's been a week now that Rave has free time, he'll send a message or call Elena. But there was no answer at all from the girl.

"Hey look at the headlines today. King Ardorarias has a child and his daughter has been hidden from the public!"

Speech that came out of Ian's mouth also made members of the members there approach to see the news that was being opened by Ian. Including Rave, they were very shocked to see the news.

"His name is Princess Elena. Look pretty, don't you?" said Ian back while lifting his phone and showing it to the other members.

"Yes, that's pretty. Why has he been hidden from the public all this time?" answered Andro, another member of Rias's band.

"Wait a minute—Elena?" tanya Rave was surprised and immediately grabbed Ian's phone.

"Daughter Elena, Rave. Don't be like you think he's an ordinary person just by saying his name. You may be punished by the kingdom!" timpal Shann warned Rave.

Rave who only cares about Ian's phone does not pay attention to Shann's words at all. He was too shocked to read the news that day. The face of the daughter of Ardorarias was indeed the Elena she knew. Elena whom he had been dating for the past few years.

He was too shocked to see the news. The Elena he knew was a descendant of the King and he did not know about this information. He felt disappointed in Elena who had lied to him all along. How could it be, how could someone he knew so well that he did not know him at all.

"Rave,"

"The rave!"

Rave was shocked and looked up towards his right side. His shoulder was touched by the manager, instructing that his boss would meet and come to the room.

"—mana Rave Josha?!" his boss shouted from outside the room to the room where Rias' grub band was rehearsing.

All the members immediately shuddered in fear when they heard the boss's screams. They were all extremely afraid of their boss including Rave. But this time Rave was too shocked by the fact about Elena that he did not care about the anger of the boss later.

"Since when?!" the boss shouted as he reached the front door of the training room.

The boss's second shout made the three grub band members there very surprised. They were surprised because Rave had been dating someone. During this time the three members of Rias often mocked Rave because he always refused when they were ordering the girls. They thought Rave liked same-sex people and the fact revealed today, it turns out he was dating a girl. Even with the successor of the Kingdom of Ardorarias.

"I asked how long have you been dating Princess Elena?!" the boss repeated his question again, forcing Rave to open his mouth.

"Four years," replied the weak Rave.

It looks like the boss and manager there looks depressed, even though the manager already knows this, and the manager is the one who protects Rave dating all along. The other three members of Rias also looked so shocked that the mouths of the three of them gaped.

"Why did you hide all this? Dan—media that almost leaked the other day, it was true that you were dating Princess Elena?!"

"Yes,"

"Rave...." the boss is seen clenching his hands when getting the facts directly from Rave, "You know who the girl you dated, Rave?! Princess Elena! The next successor of the Kingdom of Ardorarias! And how can a Princess be allowed to date freely—"

"What do you mean?!"

Rave looks to be holding a temper tantrum to his boss. It doesn't matter if everyone in the world blames her for dating a Princess. But blame Elena? He can't take it. Elena is not wrong because it was Rave who asked and convinced Elena to date him. Moreover, what harm would it make if a Royal Princess were to date? Wrongly?

"Rave calm down" the manager mumbled to calm Rave down.

"This news makes my head want to explode" the boss muttered, "Do you get any information from the kingdom?" ask the boss to manager Rias.

"Yes, they are asking us to refute this news. The public can't tell if Princess Elena is dating a celebrity." obviously the manager made Rave worse.

"Yes right," the boss replied quickly, "Let's say Rave is currently dating, but not Princess Elena but Chalota. A lot of fans are setting Rave up with Chalota and it looks like they can support all of this."

"What's? Why that? You can just refute and there's no need to add false information like this." reject Rave quickly.

"You think the public will believe? Not likely. Princess Elena could also be the target of the media's pursuit and this will be very troublesome for us. Dating a royal is hard, Rave."

Rave looks so uninspired. How he'll perform calmly tonight. So this is why Elena couldn't get in touch this week? Rave was very disappointed but he thought about Elena's feelings. How can he get through this and the issue of that statement. Elena must have been devastated to hear that, too.

"Lessons for others, if you're or want to date tell me. Telling the manager won't help. The only thing that can protect you is me" said the boss, who then left the training room followed by their manager from behind.

The training room was suddenly quiet. Rave knew that there were too many questions the members wanted to ask him, and Rave was a little grateful that none of them had asked him.

"I go to the toilet first. Call me if the phone gets collected soon."

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