It is actually a pretty nice party

Feeling extremely distressed about your interaction with Isabelle you make your way towards the hall where your party is to take place. The closer you get the more you can feel the presence of others. While you weren't able to see them yet the number of people in such close proximity meant can almost hear a faint buzzing from their auras interacting. You focus and the noise was gone. Good thing you learned how to do that or the capital with its presumably very large population might have deafened you.

When you reach the door you hesitate. After tonight you are leaving with Anastasia, Edin and Isabelle for the capital. You could speak to your father about staying a few more days so you could at least try and de-stress, but that would likely result in questions that could be difficult for you. You could also speak to Anastasia about Isabelle but based on the affection she has for her younger sister you wouldn't come out of that cleanly.

As you are standing there paralyzed with indecision you feel your father approach.

"Want to talk?" He asked coming to stand beside you. That you had no aura had never impacted his ability to read you.

You look at him and the urge to divulge everything was remarkably strong but you resist. "Just thinking about how things are going to change." Your father loves you more than anything if you told him the truth it would likely end with him at best throwing the princesses out. No, this is your life and you need to handle things on your own.

"If you want to tell me anything I'll always listen." He might not have seen right through you, but he did see most of the way.

You let out a breath and put your hand on the doors handle. "I know." You smile at him and open the door a little you stop and let go. "Thank you for everything. I love you dad." You wrap him in a hug that he returns.

He hugs you back and you feel the fear of change leaving you. "I love you too Christopher. And remember no matter what I love you and am more proud of you than I can even begin to express." As he spoke his aura wrapped around you and you felt its comfortingly soft tingle across your skin.

After a few seconds you both let go but his aura stays embracing you. You nod at each other and his aura slips away. You face the door again and feeling a new calm confidence you enter the room.

As you walk inside you are immediately greeted by Anastasia. "Happy birthday Christopher." She is standing as close as she can without touch. You look into her eyes and feel your heart speed up a little.

"Thank you your highness." You bow trying to keep things formal between you while in public. She cocks her hip slightly at your formality but turns to leave without another comment.

"Happy birthday Christopher." Edin say from next to you. He is beaming at you, the awkwardness when he ran out of the reading room apparently overcome.

"Thanks Edin." You smile at him and together you walk further into the room.

"Happy birthday young master Christopher." Each member of staff says to you as you near them. They all looked just as proud as your father had. You also cannot help but notice a few of them a much more physical in their congratulations than you remember them being before. There were a lot of hugs and a lot of auras were very liberally wrapped around you.

All the affection was making you a little embarrassed. Once everyone had wished you well the food was brought out. Lots of roasted meats and vegetables, various fruits and plenty of wine. Each time your cup is nearly empty someone would appear to refill it.

The same was true of both Edin and Anastasia, who sat on your right and left respectively. As the night wore on, and the three of you got progressively more ****, Anastasia became much more liberal with her physical attentions and you became less and less able and willing to subtly deflect her. At the beginning you were distracting her by offering food or reaching for food that required you to move and dislodge any hands on you. However, the staff seemed unaware of your attempts to avoid Anastasia's handsyness and started to place the various platters much closer to you.

At the moment Anastasia had a hand placed on your thigh. You were dimly aware that her hand was slowly but surely moving higher and should stop her but you were more aware of the fact a very beautiful woman was slowly moving her hand towards somewhere that was very happy to have some company.

Edin was as physical as Anastasia but that seemed much more because of the fact he was barely able to stay upright. His head had been resting on your right shoulder for a while and he was drunkenly talking about something that happened in the capital that had left him amazed but he was barely able to get a few words out before forgetting where he was up to in the story and jumping the timeline around.

You were in no way better than those two. You would rest your head against Edin's and make some comment about his rambling that neither of you could understand as language and would burst into laughter. Then you would roll your head to the left and try to flirt with the pretty girl without any improvement in your grasp of language so would either mumble incoherently or just say single slurred words that could possibly be along the lines of 'pretty', but it would take a linguist well beyond any of you to say for sure.

You father seemed happy enough to leave the three of you to yourselves. Probably because they were the first friends you ever had. That was kinda depressing.

"I'm your first friend?" Edin said interrupting his most recent slurred anecdote. He moved his head to look up at you.

You didn't think you had said that out loud but no point thinking about that when you could be having more wine. "Ya." You answer around a mouthful of the ****. When you swallow and look down at him your faces were very close your eye flicked to his lips.

Then your head swiveled to your left as the hand that had been inching closer and closer suddenly found its prize. Anastasia was looking into your eyes with her predatory glint, daring you to make a comment.

You are drunk enough that you are about to do just that except when you open your mouth a cup full of wine suddenly meets your lips. You splutter around the ****, swallowing just to breathe before you are able to grab the cup. Edin's hand lets go of it without resistance and when you go to glare at the traitor you see his eyes are not focused on your face anymore. He is staring down at your lower half which reminds you of Anastasia's hand at which point what she is doing clicks. You freeze for an instant as your mind claws for some sobriety so you can stop the princess from her gentle but determined rubbing. Unfortunately the clawing is quickly drowned by the wine that Edin had **** you to drink.

You roll your head over to Anastasia and catch her eyes again. The predatory glint was still there but you could see the redness in her cheeks and lips was not solely from the ****. Her eyes flicked down to look at what her hand was doing then back up, this time resting on your lips rather than your eyes. Your own eyes were focused on her lips when they relaxed, unintentionally letting you see her aura. There was almost no white anymore, the crimson you had seen a hint of in the reading room was almost total. Unlike her previous controlled patterns now it was moving at random though focused entirely on you with thin tendrils stroking across your body. One of them moved past you, you followed it with your eyes to see it ending in front of Edin. The wine was at her request though you were pretty sure you had already figured that out.

Edin lifted his eyes from Anastasia's ministrations and looked up at you. His aura was a much pinker than Anastasia's and was much more restrained in its patterns but you were still the centre of it's attention. He must have taken your comment about being his first friend to heart, it really seemed to make him happy.

You caught movement and saw his hand lift slightly and move towards Anastasia's groin occupied one. It was nice to see that the treason he so recently enacted against you was short lived and he was going to intervene on your behalf. The tendril of Anastasia's aura waved a little, clearly trying to dissuade him but his hand still kept moving.

Just before he was able to remove Anastasia's influence on your groin you felt a coldness approach. You recognized Isabelle's presence before the other two and it sobered you up enough to push their hands away before she was in eye sight. You felt Anastasia irritation at your removal an instant before she herself recognized her younger sisters approach and, just like you, it sobered her up enough to not make a comment.

Edin was not the same he froze and looked up at you. "S-sorry I didn't mean too." He rushed out the apology to Anastasia for an attempt to stop her.

"Hello Christopher. So glad you are enjoying your time with my big sister." Isabelle was staring at Anastasia and you had a feeling what you thought was a subtle concealment of activities was not as subtle as you had thought.

"Issie!" Anastasia cried out and stood from her chair. She was wobbly on her feet but seemed to have forgotten entirely about you at the presence of her sister.

"Annie." Isabelle looked a little surprised at her sister's exuberance. "Are you sure you should still be partaking?"

"Don't worry baby sis." Anastasia walked around the table to stand in front of her little sister. She leaned to whisper in her ear but seemed to forget to control her volume. "They won't tell anyone."

"You sound rather sure." Isabelle wrapped her arms around Anastasia and you felt your concern rising. From your last interaction it was likely Isabelle didn't know about the **** contract and you had no doubt her knowing was not a good thing.

"Anastasia." Say as you rise from your seat, hoping it would get enough of her attention to stop her from saying anything, or at least give you a way to get to her to stop her talking.

"Your Royal Highness Anastasia." She corrected turning to face you letting go of Isabelle. When she looked at you the predatory glint returned and she seemed to forget Isabelle. "Missing something?" She brought the hand that been stroking you up to her chest.

"I - um." You can't respond as a mixture of **** and horny took over. You look down to see your still very much attentive bulge was almost sitting on the table. You immediately fell into your seat thoroughly unable to say anything further.

"See baby sis. It's easy." She turned back to Isabelle but this time wrapped an arm around her and turned so to they were both looking at you. "Watch this." You saw her aura shift slightly and suddenly Edin rested his head back against your shoulder.

Apparently the **** had finally been too much as his head was shortly followed by the rest of him collapsed into you. After a very quick maneuvering you managed to stop his collapse from resulting in a tumble to the floor. With some effort you shifted the smaller eighteen year old around and he ended up sitting in your lip facing the royal sisters. If he had been a little taller you wouldn't have been able to see over his head to see the sister watching you intensely. Even Isabelle's previous probing appeared to be on hold for the moment after his drunken display.

You wouldn't have thought she was capable of being concerned for someone but apparently seeing someone as drunk as Edin was enough to get some attention.

Just then Edin adjusted his hips and you remembered you were not exactly in a position to have him sitting in your lap. He doesn't make any noise but you feel him tense. He must have sobered up a little as he realised where he was.

Isabelle leaned and whispered into Anastasia's ear but unlike everyone else she wasn't blind drunk and could actually whisper so you didn't hear what she said.

Whatever it was it made Anastasia's cocky smile spread into a smirk that matched her eyes. Her aura shifted again and Edin must have only noticed the end of it as he shifted in your lap to be better able to see her. The movement caused you to shift and end up with your cock pressing against his ass. He froze along with you. Neither of you had any idea what to do in this situation.

"I think it is time Master Christopher retires." One of the staff members said breaking the four of you out of whatever was going on.

"You-" Anastasia started turning to face the staff member just as you stood up, making sure that Edin was stable on his feet enough to not collapse again.

"I think you are right. I can barely stand and we are leaving early tomorrow." Is what you wanted to say, if any of that was audible or understandable you were too drunk to notice.

Thankfully there were no rebuttals that you could hear so you tried to take a step and almost fell over. Apparently you were just about on par with Edin's level of intoxication.

Thankfully a supportive arm was wrapped around you. You looked at its owner and saw the staff member who had interrupted the four of you support you. "Thank you." You slur out as she leads you out of the hall and towards you room.

"Of course Master Christopher. You know anyone here would do anything for you." Hearing that made you smile. Guess that just confirmed your attempts at strictly professional friendship hadn't worked out.

You are lead to your room and with help are able to strip to your underclothes. "You know young master if you want I'm sure we could escort Edin here."

You think for a second. "Why?" You must have either miss heard or just weren't getting it. More drinking at this point seemed dangerous to your health if nothing else.

There was a slight pause before a response came. "Nevermind my Lord." As you hear the door closed a snippet of conversation come through it. "Don't let either of those two in there."

You wondered what the conversation was about but being horizontal made only thing possible for you and very quickly that possibility dragged your into a very deep sleep.