Chapter 67: THE NOVEL’S VILLAINESS
[Alicia Eldridge. The novel’s Villainess! She doesn’t look like a villainess to me though.] She thought, staring at the cute and innocent looking girl.
Alicia Eldridge turned to her and their eyes met. Aristia froze from being caught staring, not knowing how to avert her eyes now that she had been caught.
She passed a polite nod at her and looked away as if she hadn’t been caught staring. That made Alicia curtsey before looking away too.
She wondered why the princess who had never cared to speak to her before was now staring at her so intently. Did the princess want to say something to her? But the princess just looked away. This confused her.
Just then Beatrix and Serina arrived at the corner of the banquet hall their group was standing in.
"Tia," Serina called out and everyone turned around to see the princesses.
"Princesses." They bowed in unison.
Beatrix and Serina nodded in response. They were actually very excited. After all, this could be considered their first time of coming in contact with the aristocrats apart from the people they met who came to the palace to see their father or to carry out other duties.
They had attended the banquets held the previous years, but they were too small to be left alone by their nannies, only sitting on the thrones.
Most of the people here were unfamiliar to them, but using the information and description their tutor provided about the noble families, they were able to figure out who was who among the aristocrat children gathered here.
When Lauren noticed Beatrix and Serina beside Aristia, her smile vanished and her expression changed to that of a glare which Beatrix and Serina returned in full.