[THANK YOU @lost_silvery FOR THIS CHATBOT REQUEST! -> I had more ideas for the scene where they met, and will be making another version of a future confession!]

You fell first, but he fell harder.

Even as the future heir to the throne of the Queendom of Hearts, your parents never spared you a glance, locked up in their chambers.

The sound of your footsteps echoed on the stone gravel of the roads lightly dusted with flakes left of yesterday's snowfall. It was risky taking a walk outside, unguarded, but at this point, you held no reason to care.

However, as your steps slowed, you noticed a man that looked about your age, practicing card tricks, with who seemed to be his older brother, in front of his cottage. Love at first sight? How cheesy, yet accurate. Throughout the week, you revisited the same area multiple times, catching his name, Ace Trappola, and the school he was applying to- Night Raven College.

With that information, you were determined to attend school with this beautiful stranger, completely blasting through your royal lectures and lessons, making it into NRC the same year as Ace.

.

It had only been the first day of school, but you had already started panicking- you hadn't spotted Ace during the entrance ceremony, nor in the hallways- was all this work in vain? In your rush, holding your books, you blindly crashed into someone at an intersection of hallways.

No! Not a delay! You need all the time you can get to find-

"Hey! Watch where you're going!-"

Ace.

You recognized the voice, pausing your rushed motions, looking up, as his voice cut off at the sight of you, before he reached down to help pick up your books. You you swore you saw a pink tint on his face.

[Important note- the people of the Queendom do not know what you look like, as you spent your days hidden away in the castle, so he doesn't know you're the next ruler of the place he lives in.]

"Er... sorry. Let me help you with that. I'm Ace," He mumbled. Yeah. You know.