She Belongs To The Devil

"Uncle Ben, my head cannot read anymore. Can I play? Please?" Ariel gave a puppy-eyed look to Bennett. She knew that it would work almost every time without a fail.

There was no doubt that Bennett was a highly educated and highly experienced person in Adeline's arsenal. And Adeline wanted Bennett to be Ariel's personal instructor when she would grow up.

However, Bennett preferred to start teaching the Princess from a young age in order to establish trust between them. Bennett wanted to mold Ariel into a respectable and responsible adult by instilling proper values in her since her childhood.

But he had to agree that he had taken on a most difficult task because making Ariel stay still in one place for more than 10 minutes was almost impossible.

And it would be his lucky day if Ariel didn't run away from the quarter while he was teaching. He would blink and Ariel would run away either to her mother's workroom or her father's. And if she wasn't there, she would either be in Nigel's quarter or in the Mystic Coven's quarter.

Bennett calmly glanced at Ariel who was squirming on the carpeted floor and tried to motivate her by making an offer, "Princess, I will let you play if you can count from 1 to 50. Can you do that? We memorized it yesterday, didn't we?"

Ariel lay down on her stomach and rested her chin on her palm. And then she asked, "You will let me play after that?"

"Yes, then I will let you play," Bennett gave a wide smile to the Princess.

Ariel lied down on her back again and then started to count, "One, two, three, nine, five, twenty-nine…"

Bennett shook his head and asked in a polite voice, "What comes after three?"

"Mm…" Ariel thought for a while and replied, "Thirty-three."

Bennett closed his eyes and sighed. And he thought to himself, "I guess I became too ambitious and tried to teach her faster than what she could grasp. Let's stick to the alphabets for now."

He then opened his eyes and asked, "How about reciting the alphabets?"

Ariel started playing with her dress and started to recite, "A, B, C, D… A for Ariel, B for Ben uncle, C for Caterpillar, D for… Damien, E for… E for Elebelehlah."

Bennett face-palmed himself and sighed again.

And Ariel giggled and rolled all over the floor.

Bennett lowered his head and mumbled to himself, "I should have stuck with being Her Majesty's assistant. This job is hard. I don't think I am qualified to teach the Princess."

Ariel caught her teacher saying 'this job is hard'. She felt as though her teacher was going to cry.

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So she went and stood on Bennett's lap. And she patted Bennett on the shoulder and said in a consoling tone, "There, there. It will be soft now."

Bennett hugged the Princess and burst into laughter. "I don't think you understand who is making it difficult for me. But thank you for your kind words, Princess."

Ariel tilted her head and looked into Bennett's eyes. And she asked, "Uncle Ben is crying?"

Bennett chuckled again and wiped his eyes. "No. I am very happy. I am not crying."

Ariel smiled and jumped down from his lap. She spread her arms and started to run around the room while singing, "A, B, C, D, E, F, G, My name is Ariel with a Ri."

After spending nearly one hour with Ariel, during which he was sighing for most of the time and Ariel was running around, Bennett finally allowed Ariel to go and play.

"Yay!" Ariel immediately grabbed one of her pillows with a white cover and then ran outside.

"Osanna, take me to my uncle's place," Ariel asked while jumping enthusiastically.

"Sure. Let's go," Osanna picked Ariel up in her arms and headed towards Nigel's quarter.

Osanna glanced at the pillow that Ariel was holding and asked, "Why did you bring this with you, Princess? Are you planning to sleep there tonight?"

Ariel shook her head and replied, "This is my favorite toy."

"Oh!" Osanna raised her brows and couldn't help but smile. Out of all the toy collections that the Princess had, she chose something that was not even a toy.

When they reached outside the twin's room, Claricia was giving a lesson to the twins.

But Ariel was not the one to care. She immediately banged the door and barged inside. At the very next moment, she threw the pillow at Ramon and declared, "Granny! It's playtime."

"Princess!" Osanna widened her eyes and looked at Ariel in horror. She bowed to Claricia and apologized on Ariel's behalf, "Please excuse me, Your Highness. I didn't know that–"

"No, it's alright. Let them play." Claricia glanced at her grandkids.

Niylah was standing on the sofa. And Ariel had already managed to push Ramon down on the ground and ride him as if he was her horse.

"Ary! Get off of me," Ramon was trying his best to shake Ariel down from his back. But at the same time, he was also being cautious not to hurt that tiny Devil.

But Ariel had wrapped her arms and legs around Ramon's body and was clinging to his back as if she was a baby monkey clinging to its mother.

Claricia chuckled and said, "Ariel, don't make your cousins cry, okay?"

"Granny! We don't cry!" Ramon defended himself while still struggling with Ariel.

"Alright, I will leave the three of you alone," Claricia walked out of the room.

Osanna waited outside so that she could keep an eye on the Princess and later take her back to her quarter.

"Ary! Get down, please." Ramon then gently threatened Ariel as a last resort, "Or else I am going to get angry with you."

Finally, Ariel slipped down Ramon's back. "Don't get angry, brother. I got down." She gave an innocent smile to Ramon which melted his heart in an instant.

She then ran to grab the pillow that she had brought with her and threw it at unsuspecting Niylah.

"Aah!" Niylah fell back on the sofa.

Ariel then went and poked Niylah on her forehead and shouted in her ear, "Come down, come down, let's play."

"Ary… you should not shout in ears. Only bad girls do that," Niylah spoke in a very soft and polite voice.

Niylah barely knew how to get angry even when Ariel would get on her nerves. She had taken after her grandmother. She was a kind and gentle soul just like Claricia.

Ariel showed her wide smile to Niylah. That was her way to get away with her mischiefs without saying sorry.

The three of them then sat down on the floor. Ramon took out his and Niylah's toys. And the three of them began playing house in their imaginary world.