"Awwwwwwwwww...... Monster!!!"

Riia woke up and screamed immediately to see herself inside Prince V's arm, sleeping together with her. She got up and ran to hide behind a big sandstone. 

"Hik hik... Monster!" she kept shaking her body in fear while peeping from behind the big stone to see the prince who is likely to get up soon because of her loud scream earlier. 

Prince V really woke up by her scream. He slowly opened his eyes and he soon realized the absence of Riia's presence in his arms. He quickly turned around to search for her. 

"Where is she?" he murmured to himself. 

"Hik hik monster!" Riia cried again to see him woke up.

The prince found her behind the stone. He stood up then walked to her. 

"Riia..." he called her. 

"No, don't come near me, you monster! Hik hik what are you? Where am I? Oh god, I want to go home." Riia kept crying while palming her face to not look at the prince. 

Prince V burst into a small laughter. 

"Haha!"

Riia paused from crying when she heard the prince laughing. She slowly removed her palm from covering her face. She collected her bravery to at the happily laughing prince. 

Prince V smiled softly to Riia when she looked at him. 

"You're so funny. When I was ugly and scary in scary bird form, you weren't scared of me. But now I turn to have human form, you call me a monster." he teased the little girl.

Riia turned away and thought for a while. 

"Hey, you're the black swan prince in the tale?" she asked. 

"Tale?" Prince V exclaimed. 

"Yes there is a fairy tale about you. I follow the tale and came to find you here. But wait, how can a swan turn to a human? Are you sure you're not a monster?" she still felt scared of the prince. 

Prince V just nodded. Then he entered to get closer to her. 

"Hey, get up first!" he held her both shoulders and lifted her to get up all of a sudden.

"Ops!" Riia startled with the sudden skinship. 

Now that she stood up, she could see the flawless face of the prince so clear. 

Their eyes naturally connected. 

Prince V kept smiling to her while Riia still couldn't get her soul together yet. 

"I'm Prince V, the second prince from Black Swan kingdom. Nice to meet you!" the prince politely introduced himself to Riia. 

Again, Riia became emotional all of a sudden that her tears rolled down without her permission to hear his introduction.

Prince V lost his smile to see her crying. He slowly lifted his hand to wipe away her tears. 

"Why are you crying?" Prince worriedly asked. 

"Why do I feel like I used to hear it somewhere before? It looks like long long time ago....." Riia replied and the tears continuously dropping down. 

"This gives me a dejavu feeling too. Look like we used to meet each other long long time ago. Maybe many hundreds years ago." Prince became tearing up too. 

Riia suddenly turned back and wiped her own tears. 

"This is so weird. Why am I crying?" Riia complained to herself while wiping her tears. 

Prince looked at her from her back and felt so much of feeling dejavu with every gesture of hers. He stepped forward and cuddled her behind. 

"Omooo!!!" Riia startled with the sudden hug. 

Prince softly landed his chin on her right shoulder and hugged her tighter. 

"Just stand still! Let me hug you like this for a while. I just miss... I don't know what I'm missing but I do miss something or someone so much... What or who is that? I don't know but I do miss." Prince V expressed his sadness of longing for someone or something he doesn't know while sobbing silently. 

"I've never had this kind of feeling before but I suddenly have it for you. Maybe it's not our first time to meet. Maybe we're connected somehow." he added. 

Riia carefully listened to him. She didn't protest at all. Instead she softly patted his both arms which wrapping around her waist area. 

"So do I. Sometimes I feel there is someone else inside my body. She seems to miss you a lot. I could hear she whispers to me to hug you tight. She doesn't want to see you cry." Riia said. 

"Who is she?" Prince V asked.

Riia waved her head. "I don't know either. She looks like me but she has different memories about you." she replied in very complicating way because yes it's too complicating to divide.

"It's okay. You don't have to feel pressured. No matter what the memories you are having right now, you're gonna forget me anyway." Prince heartbreakingly said. 

It poke Riia's heart so much. She burst into tears and cried out loud. She felt so weak to hear. She could fall down if Prince V isn't supporting her balance by hugging her tight. The way he mentioned the word "FORGET" gave her so much painful feeling. 

But before she could ask what he actually meant, Prince V cast a spell to make her fall asleep again. 

Riia fell asleep on depending her balance on prince's body. 

Prince V hugged her even tighter. He cast her a spell to fall asleep because he didn't want to cry in front of her. Now that she is sleeping, he could cry out as much as he wanted. 

With having all power has come back to him, Prince V could recall some memories in blur back... 

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