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The wind swirled in circles grazing over the false reality of the surroundings. The grass wavered slightly under the breeze's influence, making the boy lying in it shiver. The wind blew through his hair and he subconsciously reached up to flatten the already curly mess.
"Daniel!" A woman's voice shouted from a near distance. "Daniel!"
Said boy sat up, running his fingers through his hair to fix it and failing horrendously. "Over here!" He shouted back at her.
The woman appeared in front of him and smiled a warm and caring smile down at him. The woman had chocolate brown hair that fell in waves from her messy ponytail and glorious emerald colour eyes. As she smiled a dimple appeared on one cheek only.
"Hi ma." Daniel said, gazing up at her, a light smile present on his face. "What do you need?"
"I came to inform you that it is almost time to leave." She replied, her voice taking on a more serious tone, slowly being forgotten as she knelt down in front of her son and plucked a stray leaf from his hair. She picked up the golden crown that had been forgotten in the grass next to him, dusted it off and placed it on his head, placing a kiss on his forehead as she did so.
"Come on." She said, standing up and extending a hand to him. He gladly took it and was pulled up, bouncing a bit on his landing. He smiled and walked back to his home, hand in hand with his mother.
They entered their home and each turned in their respective directions to go to their rooms and get ready. Royalty always had to look presentable when going places, his father had always told him. So that's what he tried to do. He always tried to look presentable, just with the way he was it was hard to maintain. He closed the door to his room, locking it behind him and going over to look at his reflection in the mirror.
His hair was a mess, strands of the brown mop falling everywhere and curling in all different directions. His younger brother often referred to it as hobbit hair, as it made him look like a character from an earth movie that he couldn't remember the name of. His eyes looked sunken and tired as he hasn't gotten much sleep except for the nap he had taken in the garden earlier.
Dan sighed, removing his crown and placing it on his dresser, pulling a brush and hair straightener from his drawer to attempt to fix his hair, and washed his face as he waited for it to heat up. An agonizing half an hour later and he was presentable enough to make the walk past all of the residents of his planet to the dock where they would leave for earth.
They were headed for earth for the earth princesses eighteenth birthday. It was a very important celebration as eighteen was the age when you would finally take over the kingdom on earth. On Jupiter where Dan lived, he could take over whenever he felt most comfortable. Which meant there would be no huge celebrations when he turned eighteen the following year, although his parents would probably throw him one anyway.
Three hours, one terribly boring ship ride, eighty rounds of cards, and six cans of pop later and Dan and his mother had reached the planet of earth. His father and brother had stayed behind as they weren't much for celebration. To be honest, Dan wasn't either but he was roped into going by his mother who said she would be more comfortable going if he came with her.
Dan stood out like a sore thumb in the sea of people gathered in the earth castle. He was clad in all black aside from his gold crown which sat slightly askew on top of his perfectly straightened hair. He wasn't smiling and was quite tall for his age. He was a point blank dot in the sea of people all clad in colourful clothes and perfectly straight crowns on heads of wavy hair in an assortment of colours with normal sized bodies with smiles on their faces.
One particular group of around for people his age caught his eye. He pulled on his mothers sleeve slightly to attract her attention.
"Daniel? What is it?" She asked, her voice taking in the serious tone it would always take on when she was in a public place.
Dan pointed to the group of people. "Who are they?" He asked, his voice sounding more curious than he would have liked it too.
"Oh, I have no idea. Why don't you go ask them?" She suggested.
Before Dan could even say anything he was being pulled forward into a hug from a fellow tall person. Warm arms were wrapped around his waist and all he could see was the colourful shirt of the chest his face was pressed into.
"Peej?" He asked, hoping for the sake of not be embarrassed that he was right.
"Yup!" He heard the cheery voice of his best friend say from above him followed by a giggle. Dan laughed as well and nuzzled into Pj's chest slightly causing the older boy to laugh more.
"Now," Pj said, pulling away from Dan and looking down at him. Dan stared back up at him, temporarily getting lost in his friends bright green eyes. "I say we go over there and investigate those people. They've been interesting me since they got here." He insisted, pointing over to the same group of people that had been interesting Dan a few minuets previous.
"Okay." He managed to say, still staring up at his friend.
"Great!" Pj said, huge smile still present on his face. He spun to the side and tossed his arm around Dan's shoulders, the pair walking over to the group.