Chapter 11 (1/2)

I have changed names a little Let me know If you like the previous names I will edit it

Friendshi+ps which children huddle each other stand the test of tiuard forever each other’s secrets

This is because it is difficult for children to break their promises: to adult eyes their honesty is enviable I was so sure that the secret that I and Charles we sharing would have been safe for eternity

I smiled to myself satisfied, because ined

I hesitated a lot, but at the end I had won and Charles had been a less forht: he should had to undertake more to reach my level of wits!

< Chris, what are you laughing at? >

< Eh? See Charles, for this: because we’ve just becolad! >

I certainly could not tell hi shot such a falsehood, I realized one thing: this was the first time in which I became friend with someone for convenience

Charles looked at me in awe and with a defiant look:

< Chris, you’re laughing again>

< Co?! By the way, Charles …>

The question ca friends and no one was listening to us, no frills courtesy I asked him:

< But, ere you doing here? >

Didn’t seem like to have seen hi the prince’s third son they surely would have introduced him to me

So he was having nothing to do with the ballet which was taking place in the hall

< I came to read a book >

< To read? >

Judging by his answer, I realized that he must have escaped from the party too

Looking closer I realized that all this time he had held in his hands a thick book with a red cover, perhaps illustrated

I looked around: ere in the dark, in the garden, because the sun had already set long ago, and it was barely possible to distinguish our feet in the ht

< How can you read? >

< I can not read anything because … it’s dark >, Charles replied sadly

Just the answer I expected

< Yeah I see… >

Probably he had coain in the evening, without realizing that with no light he would not been able to read a single word He was just a baby! I was almost about to smile

< Listen, Charles >

I thought that this should have been the right moment to teach him a bit of label:

< Would you please give me that book for a moment? >

< Why? Can you read it even if it’s dark?>

< Charles, keep inhow to read is not the only talent which can be exercised through books! >

I set the volu the wheel with the skirt ofdefiantly: the book had not moved a centimeter!

< See Charles! Books can also be used for that! >

< Wow!!! >

It was already the second applause I received that day: I was very proud to have deirl

I took the opportunity to show hi which I learned from Marie

< Listen Charles >

< What, Chris? >

I returned the book holding out my hand:

< We can hear music from here also… what about to dance? >

< What? >, he asked incredulously, staring at my outstretched hand

Then he looked down, mortified

< I cannot dance already, I… >

< But I can! >

In front of his bad attitude, I decided to take the initiative:

< Coive me your hand! >