" It is very simple. You're just making it difficult. You can get to know her and she'll...probably not like you but you'll know her. "

"Like i'm doing with you. One girl's enough. At least I know that you'll kick me within the first half hour of our meetups and that at some point you'll convince me to escape wherever we are at the time."

" I don't want to be stuck in a loveless marriage. I don't want to have children with someone I don't love. You seem to be fine with that, but I'm not. "

"I'm not. That guy who gave us these clothes? He's really my stepbrother. He can't be the heir though because his mother was originally my dad's wife but that was before he took the throne and she died mysteriously. My dad was forced to marry Mom and Cole got sent off to the army so that no one would find out. Then given a house here. That's why I know this place well. I...don't want that to happen. Better to marry once and never again then to fake a mairrage with someone I don't even know. I kind of know you. That's better then a complete stranger but we're not so close that if anything happens and we have kids in the mix, they won't get outed for the "real" heirs."



(wait that makes 0 sense, well, I think you get the point)

(xD)

" Then get to know someone you actually love and marry her. Because I don't love you, and I refuse to have kids with you. Then, that way your children will grow up in a happy environment, and they won't become tyrants because mommy and daddy didn't love each other. "

"Who said we needed to have kids? And...also, there's not much choices around for that stuff. And hwo about you?"

She sighs. " Your not getting my point. I don't love you, so I'm not going to marry you. At least peacefully. "

"I get that point. Loud and clear. I also don't want to marry someone i've never met since they'll become queen and that's a big no-no, at the least if i'm being forced to choose you're better option then some ignorant village girl. And, castles are big." He paused. "Ok, fine, I just don't want to become another Cole. Like I don't want to marry you because that's just weird they think they can shove us together but at the same time I don't want to completely get outcasted from the palace."

" Then what? We're just going to get married? "

"Either that and avoid each other as mch as humanoly possible or somehow convince the parents."


(um, callen, you two are willingly in a boat in the middle of a lake less then 3 feets apart.....)