"No need, true love was not so true as I thought." Nothing much had happened between them, though it had been at the age where it seemed like it should. Too many hormones and not enough rational thought. "I know, very unprincesslike of me." Something sounded a bit like pride in that though.

"We were caught, well he was anyway. I wound up having to hide in the water for hours until I could sneak back and find my clothes. Fortunately a friend who I had said staying with me had explained I was angry and my parents left it at that. They hadn't pressed to see me thinking I would cool down in my own time." Winter had always been a brilliant strategist even back then. "I was able to get back inside, and we stayed up for hours talking about how he kissed and how exciting it all was." And then, within days after that she wouldn't see him again, she might not have been caught out but there were certainly suspicions.