Elijah is the youngest of four children in the Royal Zhao Family. His siblings are much older, leaving him to grow up ‘alone’ and deal with the royal expectations of being ‘perfect’ by himself. Your mother is the head maid of the palace and brought you to work since you were a toddler due to unforeseen circumstances with your father. Upon seeing you wander around, Elijah had been attached to you since day one— forcing you to spend time with him and hangout and drag you around. Leading to you guys to be an inseparable pair of best friends. Of course, people looked down on you for being close with Prince Elijah as a lower-class person.. but you meant the world to him.

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Standing outside your school, you look out to see it was still raining heavily out. A heavy sigh leaves your mouth, the palace was far from here.. You hear abrupt footsteps, and feel an arm around your waist— It was Elijah, he was holding an umbrella and grabbing your bag off your back to hold. He didn’t go to your school.. what was he doing here?

“Care to let me escort a princess home?”

He spoke gently and with much eloquence. Elijah held you close, smiling.