Stand By Me Darling
Chapter 264: Different Plans

Chapter 264: Different Plans

A friend she trusted did that, huh? That must have hurt a lot more. And what she went through after that....

Talia knows what it is like to be locking oneself up, trying to self-soothe. She has practical experience and it is not a nice thing. She wouldn’t wish that on her worst enemy.

And Celine’s story made Talia wonder...

It was not in Celine’s record she looked at. Her family should have tried very hard to keep it from getting recorded. They must have tried to protect her.

Everyone has some trouble they face in their life and some secrets they keep. For some it is simple hurdles they face in their day-to-day life and for some it is some trauma they had suffered in the past. Some face deep struggles on a daily basis. But everyone should have a shoulder to lean on.

"You’ve suffered too, right? They tried to keep it a secret, but I know you volunteered to commit in a-"

" Mental asylum? Yes, " Talia smiled wryly. It is the truth and she knew many of the aristocrats knew about it. "For depression."

"Why didn’t you have many girl friends?" Celine knew the situation has gone very serious right now and it won’t be good for both to be sulking and promptly spoke in a joyous tone.

"I always had this guy... This cool guy who was the best in basketball, around me. And there was this other guy who all women wanted whether they admitted or not... Cyrus. So I guess jealousy? Or maybe... I was not very keen on making friendships either. You see, when I was thirteen, my ’best friend’ and her family almost got me kidnapped for money. So I stayed away from girls. And I don’t know why boys didn’t talk to me either. Maybe I was ugly? " Talia laughed and Celine laughed along.

Celine although knew a bit about Cyrus’ story didn’t know Talia was betrayed by her friend in the past too. Somehow she felt her bond strengthen after hearing what Talia said.

" What a couple of losers we are! " she said and Talia nodded.

" At least we are smart... And rich, with lovely families!"

Both of them laughed together.

"Ah... He’d be thirty seven tomorrow... Cyrus..." Talia herself didn’t know why she said this to Celine. But it came out as if she had a leak in her usual tight defence.

She cannot talk about this to her Grandpa as she didn’t want to make him worry for her. But she could have talked to Fred about it, but their relationship is shaky right now. Maybe that’s why she opened up to the person she felt comfortable with.

" I’m not going to tell anyone, Talia, " Celine said, holding Talia’s hand. Talia really looked terrible and was regretting opening up, Celine could feel.

It is understandable. People gossip and it is very bad if her feelings of guilt are spread around. Everyone will make assumptions and it wouldn’t be good for Talia. No wonder she is frightened.

" If this gets out, you can spread around that incident that happened to me... As you may know, my family helped bury it." Celine assured Talia in a sincere tone.

"I would never do that!" Talia said immediately refuting Celine’s suggestion. How could what happened with Celine and what she did to Cyrus be the same?

"I know...." Celine sighed. "So what are your plans for tomorrow?" she asked with her eyes wide.

"I don’t know... Lie in bed, or-"

"I forbid you to hide in your room tomorrow. No way! Your room is boring! My room is boring! People like us, shouldn’t go to our room other than for sleeping. We should love ourselves and be outdoors. Like wind, we should flow. If our parents stop us from going out, we should beg them and find ourselves a job and leave the house! ...." Celine went on giving a big speech.

" You want to visit a certain brewery, don’t you? " Talia asked in a joking tone.

" That’s a good plan YOU came up with!" Celine gave a sly smile.

" Will your family allow you to travel with me, though? " Talia asked.

"If you talk to them...I mean, if you command them.... You are a Princess." Celine grinned war to ear.

Talia immediately called Mr. Ed and made arrangements to visit Luxxenshire the next day. Mr.Ed said that it would only take less than an hour if they take a helicopter and they can make her travel a secret.

Talia nodded and agreed to everything Mr. Ed said. She watched her staff arranging the meeting and the Duke of Luxxenshire was too happy to host the Princess for lunch in his castle.

She talked to Celine’s father and although he didn’t sound much excited about Celine’s travel, he had to agree to Talia.

She went along with everyone, while she had other plans.

Talia then went to her Grandpa and asked if the island property he developed recently, would be available for her the night of next day.

"I want to stay beside the sea, hearing the waves for a night, and watch the stars, grandpa. I want the staff to clean the place up and leave before evening. I’ll need to be alone for the evening and I can’t have any rumours of me leaving Rosandale, " she said.

Although she tried to make it seem like a secret trip for herself, her Grandpa had a very good idea who she is planning to take the trip with.

"I heard winter babies are less irritable. So they would be easy to raise," her Grandpa chuckled and it took sometime for Talia to understand what her Grandpa meant.

It’s early spring and if she gets pregnant now, she’d have a baby in the winter.

"Come on grandpa! I’m not going to get pregnant before marriage! How could you even suggest that?" Talia was surprised how her Grandpa would be okay with getting pregnant before marriage.

Won’t parents usually advice their children against it?

"Mary Ann... I don’t care! Grandpa wants to see great grandchildren. And you are married ten years back!" her Grandpa pouted.

"That marriage is invalid, grandpa. Don’t think you can back off from spending for my actual wedding! I’ll at least need ten billions for my wedding alone and another ten billion for the reception. So don’t say I’m already married." Talia said in a joking tone.

"I can arrange all that even tomorrow. So get married tomorrow. If you get married tomorrow, I’d be willing to spend fifty billion. What do you say?" her grandfather didn’t back off.

"Yeah right!" Talia laughed. She liked talking with her grandfather. In the past, he used to be strict with her and he rarely was this jovial with her. And now, he treated her as his equal and even though she knew she is not, she was happy talking to him.

After chatting with her grandfather for a while, Talia went to meet her great grandmother. As expected, her plans for the next day was already informed to the Dowager.

Apparently there were many resistance groups against the monarchy in the Luxxenshire area and she was asked to take enough security. Talia wasn’t surprised hearing it.

By the way the Duke and the Duchess treat the people and by the way their son treats their women, no wonder people get fed up.

Her great grandma asked her to take the helicopter straight to the brewery and return after lunch.

"I’ll be careful, great grandma," Talia said with a smile and left.

I’ll need the helicopter. Not to visit the brewery, but to surprise Fred! Haha... Fred, get ready to be surprised!

Talia became energetic as she looked forward for the next day.

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