They came in and sat down on each side of me on my bed. They told me that they were sorry about it and that they would tell the Queen right away. Then Zara left the room and William put his arms around me. I stopped crying a little bit because I was glad that William cared so much about me. I looked up at him and he smiled at me trying to raise my glum spirits. I said, "Thank you for making me feel better William. I really liked that." He said, "No problem, any time!" "Now lets go swimming!" I exclaimed. "I'm not going to let them get me down anymore! It's they're problem if they want to print rubbish!" I added. Now I felt that I had the courage, I gave him a kiss on the lips! But how would he respond? I thought that I would explode! I mean, what was I doing? I was so happy to see him smile, that meant that I wasn't the only one to feel that way! Then he kissed me back on the lips and before I knew it I had forgotten about the entire paparazzi thing. We only kissed for about 30 seconds before going out to swim. I could tell that Harry had taken my advice because Alyssa didn't leave his side for most of the day. I felt like such an encourager. I now felt so much more important to the Royal family. I had prince charming worshipping the ground I walked on (not literally!) and I passed the Royal girlfriend test with flying colors. What more could a girl want? Wait, I knew exactly what I wanted; more time! How in the world could I get my parents to okay this one. Uh mom and dad, I'm in love with Prince William so I'm going to go to England with him, okay? Yeah right, I couldn't even see myself asking this! I was going to have to figure out some way to see Wills while I was in the states without letting my parents know. I knew that no one in my family would understand if I told them. I started to worry about this when I thought, "Hey I'm not even William's girlfriend! Why am I worrying about a problem that doesn't exist!" I was so happy for a while and then I was jealous; I wasn't William's girlfriend! We kissed this morning, I had been reviewed and liked by his family, and I was in all of the papers with him and I was still just his date for the dance? How rude! So, I was totally mad at him. I answered all of his questions with one word answers and never laughed at his jokes. He invited me back to the deck where no one else was. He said, "Okay what's going on? You've been treating me like dirt all day; what did I do?" I answered this time with more than one word, "No William it's not what you did, but what you didn't do! I've gone through a lot this week, more than I have ever gone through in 7 days before and I really liked you! Why aren't the feelings mutual? Did your family find a new media toy for you or what?" "No, that's not it at all! It's just that...that...well..."he stuttered. "C'mon, spit it out Einstein!" I said sarcasticly. He said, "Well, you are the first girl that I've ever really liked like this. I mean sure I've had dates before, but I feel weird about asking you to be my girlfriend. I feel like I'm too young to have a girlfriend right now, I mean I know I'm 16 and all but I don't know if I'll do this relationship thing correctly. I know it sounds stupid but I really do like you but I'm afraid I'll mess up or something!" "Aww, that's so sweet, but how are you going to know if you're any good at being a boyfriend if you never take a chance?" I said, hoping that he would feel better. "All right will you be my girlfriend?" he asked. "Of course, giggle boy! Did you think I was actually going to say no!" I said giving him a hug and a kiss. "Actually, I did have my doubts." he said returning my hugs and kisses. We sat on the deck for an hour just kissing, talking, and laughing. No one even noticed we were gone until Harry wanted to ask me about Alyssa's past with guys and if she had a boyfriend back home. He walked in and said, "Katie...oh man, why do always come in when you guys are smooching? Bye-" "Oh no you don't!" I said pulling him back to me, "What do you need now?" He said, "So what about Alyssa?" I knew what he meant, so I answered right away, "She has no boyfriend right now and she hasn't had one since second grade and she didn't dump him; he dumped her because he found out that she has cooties." When I told him that, they both started laughing and Harry said in a silly but, caring way, "Is there any cure?" I said grabbing his hands and pretending to cry, "No, but we can help her pull through this!" Then we all laughed, almost to tears! We left the deck, still laughing hysterically, and went out to swim (since we were already in our bathing suits). Alyssa was with Zara eating lunch in town (in disguise, of course) discussing something and I was not invited but I didn't care. After swimming for awhile we went rollerblading and William stared at me the whole time. Every time I caught him staring at me I just started giving my cutsie, little girl look. He just smiled at me and bladed away. Finally Zara and Alyssa came back, Alyssa running to Harry and covering him with kisses (what a hopeless romantic!) and Zara coming over to me and asking if 'he had asked me yet'. I said yes and she and I started jumping up and down. William rollerbladed towards me and gave me a kiss. I smiled and we both took off our blades. I walked back to the house talking with Wills about how I was going to miss him so much when he left for England and I left for the U.S. He said, "I wish you could come with me so you could meet all of my friends. I mean, it's okay with my family, they found you very graceful and lady-like at the ball, so why don't you ask your family? Maybe you could go to school out there!" I said, "Tomorrow is my second to last day here. I will call my family then. I know they won't approve because, well, you're a teenage boy, I'm a teenage girl and they just don't trust me that far yet. I'm a well-behaved girl and they should trust me but I'm still their baby girl and they don't want to let me go. I know it sounds weird but they want to shelter me from these things for as long as they can. I have never played spin the bottle so they think I'm good, but I'm dying to try it; I just won't tell them! I'm going to try and be a rebel for my few days left here and we'll see how I like it!" with that I gave him a nice long kiss on the lips (hey, nobody could see; who cares!)and he returned it. I was already starting to rebel and I liked it but I didn't want to rebel too much! He said, "I like this rebellion thing so far!" We walked the rest of the way to the house holding hands and talking. He said he would plan a party the for the day I left and we would play spin the bottle. I think if I was dressed in black leather you could have mistaken me for a biker chick (okay, so I'm exaggurating a little!). I couldn't wait to start being a minor rebel! I went to bed that night very happy and I couldn't wait to see Wills in the morning!
Chapter 8-Can anyone be a straight 'A' rebel?
I walked into breakfast that morning with a renewed confidence that I had never felt before. I wore slightly shorter shorts (hey, a rebel's gotta start somewhere!)and a yellow ribbed tank top with an embroidred daisy on the front (something a bit more revealing than usual). Everybody in the dining room asked what had happened to me over night. I just said, "Well, I felt like breaking loose. I only have 2 days left!" After breakfast we went for our usual morning swim. After we were tired of that I felt like doing something different for a change. We all left the house in the dorkiest, out of style clothes we could find and headed off for town! We first went into a clothing store and each applied for a job and then we went and got ice cream. Luckily, no one could identify the boys so we were safe to go almost any where! In the ice cream parlor, I had chocolate with M&M's on top, and my fake feather boa kept getting into my food so I called it chocolate-al`a-plumage! We were all laughing because of my joke and because of how retro-70's we were dressed! Next we decided to leave even though we still had our ice cream. Suddenly I heard a strange noise. It was Harry, He burped and said, "Mmmmm! Strawberry!" and we all laughed again. We decided that it was almost time for lunch so we'd better head home. William carried me out to the car in my tie-died stretch pants, pink feather boa, purple sweater, and platforms and said, "Wow, totally groovy threads chick!" while trying to sound like a Californian surfer. We got into the car and started home. Zara and I said that we would switch accents for a few minutes. She was trying to sound American and I was trying to sound British and neither of us ended up sounding like the other but it was a good laugh! We got back, changed clothes and acted, once again formal, rising and bowing to the queen. After lunch, we started planning tomorrow's party for my departure. William invited some of his friends and everyone else did too, except me and Alyssa of course! We decided to not make it a make-out party (not very royal!) but not to make it a Flintstones theme, kindergarten party (not very teenager!). It would be the bash of the summer and everything had to be perfect! Music, clothes, theme, everything. William and I went into the den to plan some more but ended up just falling asleep there. Planning could be so boring at times but I guess that that's something that he had to put up with for his entire life. I woke up before he did so I just sat there staring and wondering why all this had happened to me and not some other girl. I wished that there was at least some chance of me marrying him, but there was not. Since I had no royal lineage and I was not filthy rich all I could hope for was to be his summer fling and then we would never see each other again. Then Wills woke up. I gave him a smile that must have looked like I was having troubled thoughts because he gave me a concerned look and said, "What's the matter? It's only 2:00 in the afternoon and you don't leave until tomorrow night." I answered, "Well the problem is that I know after I leave, you will find a new girlfriend, completely forget about me, and we'll never speak to each other again! I just wanted this week to last forever and now it is going to end. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted." "Don't you start with this, Katie! Why do you think that I'll just forget about you? You know that you're too special for me to forget. Who knows, maybe your parents will let you come to England with me!" he said cheerfully. The irony of the whole situation was when we first met I was trying to cheer him up and now, near the end of my stay, he was the one trying to cheer me up! "Don't count on it! As I said before, my parents just don't trust me like that yet. I'm only 13 so the trust thing is just becoming an issue to me." I told him glumly. "You're only 13! Wow, I guess we never discussed it much before, did we. I just assumed you were my age; maybe a year younger or something but not 3 years younger!" he replied. I answered, "Yes I'm 13. That doesn't change anything, does it?" "No I was just surprised that's all. Why don't we get up and go call your parents. Make sure you ask them about coming with me. I'll even talk to them if you want me to!" he said. We stood up off the couch and I yawned. I walked over to the phone and dialed my number. The phone rang twice and then my dad picked up the phone and said 'Hello'. I said, "Hey dad, it's me. How are you and mom doing?" "Fine, how are you; are they taking care of you all right?" dad asked. I answered, "Yes they're just wonderful! I've had so much fun. Can I talk to mom for awhile?" "Oh okay I guess you're getting tired of listening to your dear old dad so here she is." I laughed and put on the speaker phone. I could always talk to mom better about boyfriends than dad because he just wasn't female. I said into the speaker phone, "Mom? Hi, you probably heard me and dad's conversation, didn't you?" "Yes I did. So how are those boys treating you? They aren't being mean to you are they?" she said jokingly because she could tell that I had the speaker on and they could probably hear it. William kiddingly answered her, "Well we've been treating her okay except for when we pull her hair and stuff." "Oh, hi William! So I trust that my daughter isn't causing any problems right?" mom said. "She's been behaving like an angel. I would trust her anywhere." he told my mom, trying to hint about her trusting me. "Mrs. Callen, I was wondering if Katie could come to England with my brother and I. We would take good care of her, I promise if you please let her come." he pleaded. Mom answered him, "Well I don't know, she's awful young to be running off with 2 teenage boys to England. It's not that I don't trust you, Your Majesty it's just that I'm not sure about her. I'll discuss it with her dad but I just don't think so. Maybe she can come visit you sometime though." "Oh mom please!" I said then signalled to Wills that I was going to tell her, "Mom, William is my boyfriend now. He asked me and I said yes. If you let me go, just for the rest of the summer, I would be so happy. I promise I'll be a good girl. You can trust me mom! Remember when you let me go to that boy/girl sleepover in the 6th grade? You trusted me then and I didn't let you down! Please!" "Let me discuss it with your dad, Katie." she said. Mom put down the phone and put it on mute so I couldn't hear them. I went over and held William's hand and said, "Oh no! She's not going to say yes, I just know it! I shouldn't have told her about us. Well at least I have one more day to..." then mom started in on the phone again. When she started talking, Wills held me in his arms, realizing that it may be one of the last times we'd get to see each other. She said in her lecturing voice, "William, my husband and I have decided on the answer to your question. Katie has to come home for 3 days before she goes with you to the U.K. and you must promise us that you will try to keep her out of danger. Katie, you will be allowed to stay with Harry, William, and their father only until a week before school starts and if you blow this one, your trust from us has to start brand new again with no privileges. Do you both understand?" "Crystal clear!" I said knowing that I had to "I promise that I will try my hardest to protect her." William said, loosening his grip on me because now he knew that we had more time together. "Okay, now Katie, we'll see you tomorrow night at 11:00 sharp. William can come with you if it's okay with his family. Your 3 days home will be spent packing, getting your passport ready, and saying good bye for the summer so I'll see you then. Bye-bye." said dad. I answered, "All right, bye!" "Bye!" said William. I went to my room and sat down at the desk. Did I really want to spend the rest of my summer in another country? Then I asked William, who was playing video games at the television in my room, "Don't you need to ask your family about me coming with you? I mean after all I'm not royal, I'm not rich, and I don't live there! And where will I stay?" He answered all of my questions carefully, "My family won't care but I'll ask them anyway if it makes you feel better and you can stay with me! I don't go back to school until after you do so you can stay for the whole time. Why, don't you want to stay with me, are you afraid of the photographers or what happened to my mother?" "Well, I can handle the photographers and media I think, as long as I'm careful but I just thought that staying with you and your family that long that they may start to not like me. What if there are more dances and official engagements, what will I do?" I enquired. "You will come with me and I will take care of everything. Quit worrying about everything! Wait until we get there then if something happens, we will handle it then." Then we left the den without hardly planning anything for the 'Gone to England party'. We met up with charles in the hallway and he gave William a suspicious look and said, "Where were you two?" "We were in the den planning the party, then we fell asleep, and then we called Katie's parents to see if it was okay for her to come home with us." he answered his father. "All right, I guess." he said still suspecting his son. "You can trust me dad, I wouldn't lie about this type of thing. Katie's parents said that it's okay if she comes with us but she has to come home for 3 days though, to pack is it okay if I go with her? I think her dad wants to meet me to see if he really wants to send her away with us for 2 months." he told his father. "Oh I understand what he's thinking. I wouldn't send my daughter off with either you or Harry!" he said jokingly. I knew that my parents were just using this as a test so I had to be very careful. Anything I did wrong in the company of the media would show up a million times worse. I was so nervous, especially because Alyssa wasn't coming with me and I didn't know how long I'd last in such a formal country. I was going to have to learn to trust in William more because I was going to have a lot more time alone with him and the media. I was going to have to trust that he would protect me as best he could from the paparazzi. I didn't know what to do that night because I was nervous, happy, and a little sad. I couldn't get to sleep so I went down the hall to William's room and knocked, hoping not to wake him if he was sleeping. He came and opened the door. I could tell that he was having just as much of a hard time getting to sleep as I was. He had on a pair of boxer shorts and a white t-shirt on top of it so he looked a little less than royal right now. I was wearing my gown-like pajamas so it made me, for once, look better dressed than he was. I went into his room and sat down on a chair beside his T.V. For a while we just sat there and said nothing but he was the first one to break the silence by saying, "So, you have been having trouble getting to sleep too, huh." "Yeah, I just don't know if coming to England with you was the right choice or not, I mean, you are a really sweet guy and everything but I'm kind of nervous because...well...I don't know!" I said. "Relax, it's natural. You don't know whether it's okay to come with me or not because you haven't known me that long. Don't worry I'm nervous too. About meeting your dad, why did he want me to come home with you?" he questioned. "He will give you the costomary 'Dad vs. daughter's boyfriend' talk saying something like 'Son I'm putting my little pumpkin in your care so can I trust you?' He always does that so don't get too worried about it. Just act like your normal, sweet self and you'll come out all right!" I replied. Then, I realized the time; it was late and neither Wills or I were tired so we went down to watch some videos. He thought that since I was a girl I would enjoy sappy, romance or drama movies but I said, "Ewww!!" Instead we ended up waking up Harry and Alyssa and Watching Monty Python and Mr. Bean until 4:30 in the morning. Alyssa would have rather watched those sappy movies but, come on! How could I turn down British humor for fake fairy tales where everything ends up perfectly! Have fun in life for goodness sake!!!
Chapter 9-The BIG trip home
The party didn't start until late afternoon of my last day there so we didn't feel bad about staying up so late. Since it was 4:30 in the morning, we all decided to go to our rooms and go to bed. I fell asleep as soon as I hit the blanket of my comfortable bed. When I woke up, I couldn't believe that I could stay up that late and still wake up at 9:00 a.m.! It was truly strange. I got dressed and walked downstairs as I was ready for the day ahead. As I walked, I felt like someone was watching me but I just shrugged it off figuring that I was just nervous. Then, not realizing that I was next to a window I saw a blinding light and thought, "Oh no, not again!" Sure enough; it was a photographer. I said to myself, "Well here comes another headline; 'Future Princess staying at Royal summer home'. All this crap that was completely untrue would be spread around again. How could the media do stuff like this? Did they have no morals? Oh well; I handled it before so I can handle it again (I thought). I met Wills at the bottom of the steps, as he had been awake for over an hour before I had. He said, "After our meeting with your parents, we have an official engagement at our home. Do you think we could cut your parents visit down to 2 days instead of 3? I just don't want to be late, that's all." I replied, "I think it would be okay oh yeah and I forgot to tell you, a photographer caught a picture of me on the steps near the window this morning but he wasn't very close to the house so I don't think it will be a very well-focused picture; there's only so much you can do with a zoom lens!" I said this in a tone that I thought would cheer him up. I couldn't wait until the party! All of their Canadian friends would be there and I was excited to meet them. For the whole day William and I did nothing but decorate and plan for the party I loved the decorations everyone had picked out; most of them were in shades of blue (my favorite color). Then it was time to get dressed for the event. "Oh no!" I thought. I hadn't picked out anything to wear tonight! I would just have to wear some clothes that I had brought from home; no time to shop! I decided to wear a black skirt with a pastel pink blouse and some black heels with it. I was just hoping that I had brought the right tights with me; I had packed so quickly that I might have packed the ones with a run right down the perfectly visible knee. Ohh please be the right ones I thought. Yes some luck was with me I had packed the right ones! I was in the bathroom putting on my makeup when there was a knock at the door. It was Zara, she wanted to see if I needed any help. I said, "No I don't really need any help but if you could stay in here until I'm ready that would be great! I always like to have company to talk to." She replied, "Okay, I'm all ready so I'll just wait. I hope you have fun tonight! I can't wait until we play some games like spin the bottle!" and then she giggled. "Oh no I forgot about that! Do I really have to? I mean what if I have to kiss some guy I don't know! That will be so freaky!" I said, turning around from putting on my lipstick. "Relax," she said, "If you end up in a situation like that then don't be a wimp and pucker up because you wouldn't want to spoil your own party!" "I know, I know. But William won't be mad at me, will he? I don't mean anything by it if I have to kiss someone else, I mean it's just a game." I said. After I was done 'putting on my face' as some would call it, I went downstairs with Zara who was dressed a little bit like me. When I got to the bottom of the steps I wanted to cry! Everyone was so nice to me! Even though some of them had never met me before they still treated me like a friend. Then I saw him; William. He looked great (did he ever not look great?). I went over to him and poked him in the side. He said, "Oww! Who is-" and then he saw me and smiled. We went to everyone in the room and he introduced me and I just shook their hands. I went to go talk to Alyssa and Zara after we were done shaking hands. I said hi then looked over at William. What in the world was he doing! I couldn't believe my eyes! He was drinking (and it wasn't Pepsi, I'll tell you that)! I couldn't believe he would do that. I ran over to him and said, "What are you doing? You're meeting my parents in a couple of hours! They won't let me go with you if you're drunk so PLEASE stop!" "Oh, I'm very sorry. I just needed to unwind is all. I'll quit. In fact I'll puit for the whole time we are going out but I thought you were going to be rebel?" he said in complete sincerety. I answered, "I said I wan't to be a rebel, not a drunken moronic fool! No offense but I find alcohol very gross!" "I know but... oh well; I quit now, for you because I love you. Are you happy?" he said. I replied, "Yes I'm very happy! Thank you Your Royal Highness Prince William-a.k.a. giggle-boy!" I added that in a whisper. He leaned to give me a kiss but I suggested he brush his teeth first, yuck! Now that was all settled, I was glad that he had quit drinking-at least for a while. He walked back down from the bathroom and gave me the kiss I had refused before only now it didn't taste like alcohol but more like baking soda and peroxide. After that incident, it was around 7:30 so we shut off the formal music and put on some CD's of swing bands and alternative groups. It was great! Next after dancing came...you guessed it-spin the bottle! They decided that Alyssa should be the first one to go because she was going to actually leave us. Her spin landed on, would you believe this, William! She was blushing as they both stood up, in vegetable talk, William was cool as a cucumber and she was red as a tomato! She gave him a quick peck and then bolted back to her seat (she was kind of uncomfortable with the situation, kissing her boyfriend's brother). The rest of the night went the same as the first spin; spontaneous yet embarrassing. Since the party started at six, it was over by nine then we had to leave because it took 2 hours to get home. Alyssa, William, and I all boarded the plane waving to Harry, who was a bit jealous of his brother for getting to ride home with Alyssa (he was soooo over me by the first time he set eyes on her!). Back to the story, so we boarded the plane and we were waving, blah, blah, yaddah, yaddah BOOM! We were in the plane. We had to be home "By 11 o' clock sharp!" Mom had said. I wondered if thinking about my mom was weird to him, knowing that she would always be there to give me bear hugs and to ask how my day went. I hoped it was okay with him. I remembered watching his mom's funeral on that tragic day...I felt so sorry for the whole family, especially for Harry and William. One minute they had a mother the next she was gone; almost like a bad nightmare when you hope you'll wake up and everything will be okay. I was pondering all this without even thinking about being on the plane; we were already an hour into the flight and I didn't even know the plane had taken off. Almost everyone on the plane was sleeping, including Alyssa and William so I tried to get comfortable in my seat and sleep for the rest of the flight. I heard a loud voice, oh it was just the announcer saying that we had arrived. HOLY COW, WE WERE THERE! The moment of truth was about to come.
Chapter 10-Rejection
"Ugh!", I thought as I got into the car that was taking me home. I was so not looking foward to my parents meeting William at length. We hit a bump in the road and I bounced up. I said, "Oye!" I was so tired it didn't seem to matter what I did, things just went wrong! He broke the silence as I struggled to stay awake, wanting to forget what was going to happen. He said, "So, Alyssa, do you miss Harry yet?" She looked at him and replied, "Not a lot really. Just a little bit." He laughed, "I just wanted to see if you are pathetic like some of the girls I know. I go to the bathroom and they say, 'Oh, it seems like forever since I saw you last!' It gets annoying." We dropped off Alyssa at her house and started for mine. As we pulled into the driveway, I felt the sudden stop, opened the door, and staggered out of the car. We went inside where my parents were waiting. I said, "Mom, I'm tired can I go to my room?"
Chapter 11- The Parent talk
"I give up!" I told my mom the next morning. "I bring home a prince as my boyfriend and you still aren't happy! What's with that?" My mom tried to explain, "Well, your father and I aren't comfortable with you dating an older boy from another country. And we almost let you run away with him, what were we thinking!" I was so angry, I felt like like I would burst before I felt better. I knew that this would eventually happen, but why now? Just as I was about to scream at her, William walked down the stairs. He said, "Can speak to you alone please?" "Sure," I replied. We retreated off to the den where we sat down. He said very quietly, "I've been thinking, and, well..., I'm thinking that maybe you and I should take a, uh..., temporary break." "What!", I said, appalled at the thought. "What did my dad say to you? He still thinks I'm 2 years old and-" I was interrupted by him saying, "Uh, your dad isn't the one who told me that." I looked down the hall when suddenly a thought came to my mind; who, more than anyone on Earth, wants me to be unhappy. There was only one answer to that question-and I knew it. My loser older brother! Oh, I would get him goooood for this one!
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