Crown princess Li li

And there she goes getting flustered again, face turning about as red as a couple of the stickers on her laptop. “Okay okay,” she giggled, moving to give her a hug. “You’re just going to keep flustering me with your compliments aren’t you?”

Evie gave Li Li her best pout. “But I want to get you something,” she mock-whined before she burst into a bit of a gigglefit. “But okay if you insist, I won’t.”

“It’s called Crown, and it’s really cute,” Seojun said, offering the other his phone so she could listen to it too.

“That works,” Evie smiled, leaning in to peck Li Li on the cheek. “Well I should get you something too, I mean it’s only fair.”

max brought his gaze over to the princess, a smile coming across his face as he set eyes on her. “quite a lot i’d suppose.” he mentioned, hand gesturing to the open space before them. “do you think they’ll be bringing in the next load here?”

“It sounds like a migraine I’m thankful I’m not in charge of,” She admitted looking around them before her gaze flickered over to him, “I suppose they would. Don’t you?”

“Y-you would?” Evie no, no blushing–too late. “Thanks,” she said softly. “My mom had it made for my birthday last year, wanted something with at least two of my birthstones on it.”

“Of course. You are to be my wife, and it is important to me that you are as happy as I can make you and everyone woman deserves to be spoiled in jewelry. Perhaps as an engagement present?”

Riley was fascinated with what the woman had to say as she spoke, his gaze occasionally flicking down to Novalie who wasn’t causing any trouble for herself, something he was thankful for.

“I think I mainly stuck to our main languages, Swedish, Finnish, Yiddish and English. Though I did dabble in French and Spanish when I had the time, though I think my accents in both are horrible now.”

“Truly anyone who isn’t French or Spanish can rarely pull off those accents,” Li Li pointed out to him knowing that her own were a mess but that never stopped her love of the languages. She was always itching to know as much as possible.

“Four languages though is a lot to keep straight sometimes. I’m sure you’re passing that on to her. All it takes is the loving encouragement from a parent to want to grow in her knowledge.”

“now I am intrigued,” he replied but nodded, understanding privacy was not a luxury they had anymore. “but I understand, not enjoying greece?”

“I’d be enjoying it far more if it didn’t come with the condition of my wedding, but I am sure that most of us feel the same way. I’m not special in that aspect. What about you though?” She asked curiously, “Are you enjoying our current home away from home?”

Rubbing the pearl and moonstone bracelet around her wrist as a way to calm her nerves, Evie nodded. “Same, I wouldn’t know what to do,” she said with a small shrug. 

“Well…Okay look, I know you said I’d never have to ask, but you know, I’m asking anyway,” Jianyu snickered as he fidgeted with a couple of buttons on the camera. 

“I know you are. One day you’ll get use to just taking my picture without even bothering to ask,” or at least she hoped. She wasn’t one to love having her photo taken, but for him she would get use to it.

“We are. I’m Riley, my twin sister Freya is the crown princess. And this is my daughter, Novalie.” He explained, returning the smile she gave him. He shuffled around on his towel, sitting up properly to speak to the woman and to also watch Novalie. “It’s a pleasure to meet you.” 

He was surprised that the woman knew even a small amount of Swedish, given that their respective countries were located so far away from each other. “Where did you learn Swedish, if I may ask?”

“Novalie is such a pretty name for a pretty little girl,” her comment was directed towards the girl with the warmest smile hoping to encourage her even more. She knew that it was all too important for children to have adults that encouraged them rather than brushing them off. 

“Oh, I’ve loved languages since I was a child. My parents allowed me to learn French and Spanish but when I conquered those I got bored and they tried to keep me interested and figured that Swedish would be a good challenge which it was.”

“do you wish to speak about it?”

“Not particularly. I’m sure you also would rather not have that conversation.”

“Quite a lot, I guess,” Evie said, trying to keep her expression as neutral as possible to cover just how nervous she was meeting her fiancee. Chill Evie, chill, she thought. 

Li Li had studied the pictures that her parents had given her of her fiance and she felt as if she would have known her from anywhere. “I suppose so. I’m just glad that it’s not on me to keep everyone entertained.”

Socialisation was something that Riley was trying to encourage in Novalie, pushing her towards being more friendly with people. But since her English wasn’t that great, it meant that such an idea wasn’t always executed perfectly. 

“Daddy!” She turned around and yelled at her father, staring at him as she waited for Riley to translate for her. He groaned slightly as he tried to remember the Swedish word for ‘sand castle’ before relaying the question back to his daughter in Swedish. Once she understood the woman, Novalie was happy to show her, chatting away in Swedish to the woman. 

“I’m sorry, her English isn’t great.” Riley finally interjected, smiling at the woman.

Li Li had to admit that her own Swedish was weak at best but she supposed her vocabulary wouldn’t be far from the little girl’s at the very least. She shook her head as she stood up to introduce herself to the man. “it’s completely fine. My own Swedish is probably about her level so I think we can communicate quite well with each other.”

She held her hand out for him with a cheerful smile, “I’m Li Li by the way. The crown princess of China. I’m going to guess that you and this cute little darling are from the Swedish family?” She asked raising her eyebrows even if she knew she was right. It was always interesting to meet those from around the world and she never held back on trying to make new friends.