My Fiancée Hates Me novel Chapter 11

My etiquette classes began once again and three days a week with a private tutor at my aunt Bernadette's home as requested of my parents. Lady Bernadette would always appear before the library to take me to her home. I thought it was a bit odd since I would never call her. I accepted her kind gesture for three days so far. It was only until I asked Maura for a map that I found out that it was a mere fifteen-minute walk from the library to her house.

When I questioned Lady Bernadette about it, she quickly admitted that she had been escorting me from and to with a detour to make it seem like the distance was further than I thought all because she was worried about me walking outside by myself.

The tendency I have to surround myself with people that adore me to a fault has still not changed...

I began walking from Lady Bernadette's home to the Exurbia Library after my lessons. It was a good chance for me to get familiar with the nearby shops and scenery.

Nariel is a truly beautiful country with its unique architecture and emphasis on greenery plants all around. It is said that the architectural designs of most buildings and roads are based off of the picture records from Asmaria.

Everyone in this country is a fanatic about a lost country other than me.

Still, the nostalgia I feel from seeing this country as if I had been here before. In my first life, I never even stepped out of Arundel even once before...

"Welcome back, Arielle," Maura said as she greeted me after I changed into my uniform.

"Good afternoon, Maura," I told her.

"Garett said that you have been doing well in remembering the library sections. You will be placing the books back," she said as she pointed towards a large stack of books. "You will be fine since it is all sorted by section. You will be in one aisle for the most part."

Carrying all these by hand...There should be at least seventy books.

"Where is Garett? I have not seen him all day."

"Garett attends Nariel Preparatory five days a week. He will be here later in the afternoon."

If I remember right, Nariel royalty and the young Prince Erik currently go there.

"I see."

"I thought that you might attend there as well."

"No, I will be attending the Royal Academy within Arundel in a few years..."

"That's still going to be about five years from now...How making some friends? That's what school is all about."

"Friends?"

I only had Charlotte who I considered a true friend. If I were to look back on my first life and second life, I only remembered classmates' names and faces and only exchanged a few pleasantries. Other than Charlotte, I never felt a really strong connection between anyone.

I thought it was enough to only have one person understand me and only one person who could love me as a woman.

"More importantly, have you ever really lived for yourself?"

"Huh?"

"You have lived your life as a Duke's Daughter for how long? All these etiquette and socializing classes were done with the intent of serving your husband, am I right? You requested to come over here of your own will, but still have not changed your way of pleasing your parents. What about yourself? What have you done to make yourself happy? Do you really not have any desires?"

There was only one time that I ever asked for something. Erik denied me of it, and my heart ended up being broken because I lost something very important that day...

What was it?

I suddenly snapped back to reality.

It was not as if I completely remembered my past life. There were some parts that were still fuzzy...

"Apart from wanting to come here, not really... Surrounding myself with the scent of ink and lovely scent of old books...Can that not be my dream?"

"If that is what you truly wish for, I would say no more. That is not what you want, Arielle. Like you, him, and I...we are all escaping from something," Maura said as she took a stack of books onto her hands and carried them out. "I just hope that you will not end up like the rest of us."

With her usual professional smile, she left like the wind.

Maura is one to not be taken lightly...

Her words cut deep into me.

I came here as an escape from Erik as well as for anyone that I could encounter within my country. I would have to see him if he were to come by my home eventually. Constantly avoiding him for five or six years would have its limits. I opted with the excuse of studying in another country where my parents would accept because of my aunt living here.

No matter how tied we are to fate, even he cannot force himself here.

A loud trumpet rang throughout the library.

"Our Prince is here!" a booming man's voice rang.

I spoke too soon...

I was on the second floor.

Upon just hearing the word Prince, I quickly lunged myself towards the ground and crawled to the ledge.

A herd of various noble children in black uniforms had entered the library with several guards.

Maura bravely went up the guards.

"This library is not a place for you soldiers in heavy uniforms," she said crisply.

"The Second Prince of our nation is here! How can we be asked to leave?"

Nariel royalty...That makes sense.

"Under Article 37, under subsection 12, militarized personnel are not allowed intrusion upon public facilities or businesses or homes at in times when the country is not at war. If you lot forgot how to read, shall I read it to you from the book word from word?"

"...Ask that everyone in this library apart from staff to leave then!"

"All these people are happy residents of this country... To ask them to leave while they are here for business and leisure activities, shows how rotten the abuse from soldiers are," Maura said coldly.

The guard grabbed Maura by the collar.

I quickly got to my feet.

I need to do something.

"Who are you to..."

Maura pointed at a golden circular badge to her chest.

"As an honorary Royal Librarian appointed by the King, I have the authority to throw out anyone I dislike," she said as she grabbed the soldier by his collar. The soldier was then lifted into the air and thrown outside of the large double doorway. She went back to smiling professionally. "Anyone else like to be escorted out the same way?"

Everyone including the Nobles shook their head incredibly fast before the very scary Librarian.