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James smiled and happily picked up Moose and petted him. "Well, I was just in the neighborhood and thought maybe a certain seamstress would be hungry and come and join me for dinner with their cute little Moose." He said smiling at her. He did not care that she had been working all day because he had been too. He wondered what was going through her head and if she was okay with this. He had really wanted to talk to her last night but she had fallen asleep. He hoped that they would be able to talk again. His royal guard was standing close by and watching for any sign of trouble. James saw the kids in the corner making bows and smiled at them.

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Lenore started to stutter, she could believe that he had found her, or that he had made his way to the East side of the city. "W-well I suppose that wouldn't be a problem." She gave each girl a couple of feet of ribbon before sending them on their way and closing up the shop for a bit. "You know, every woman in the city wants to know if you're going to have another ball." Lenore smiled a bit looking at Moose in his arms. "And how on earth did you even find me with only my name? I'm definitely not the only seamstress around."

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James laughed a little bit and started to walk out with her. "I don't know if I will have another ball. It depends on if I can get you to come with me. I will make sure you eat before though." He said smiling at her. "I have my ways. I have a whole team of staff that work for me. There is always someone who can spare the time to do some research for me. It only took him a half hour to figure out where you were and then as soon as I finished work, I came over. It was actually not that hard. There are records of everyone in the kingdom after all and I do have access to all of them." He said looking at her. "But really I am fine with eating anything. Oh and this is Eric. He is one of the many palace guards." He said and Eric was too busy looking for threats to notice.

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Lenore blushed a violent shade of red, looking down at her feet. "If you pick the place, I'll go." She walked down the street with the King looking around at all the shops. "But why would me coming with you, put an end to the balls?" Lenore was a little worried that the dress orders would slow down. She was also still confused as to why he sought her out. She looked down at at the pathway, and then back at the guard.

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The king smiled a little when she blushed. "Alright. There is a nice restaurant close by that we can go to." He said to her. He thought about her question for a minute. "I don't know to be honest with you. It depends on a few things." He said looking down at Moose. Now he was the one blushing a bit. After he recovered, he looked at her. "I really like being around you. You make me happier than I thought that I could ever be and I feel so lucky that I met you. For most of today, I have been thinking about last night. It was amazing and I had so much fun with you and Moose." James said. "I don't know what will happen with the balls because I kind of need to figure out this first." James added as he walked to the restaurant and the guard opened the door for them. James walked in and asked for a table and they were brought to one and he pulled out a chair for her and then sat across from her. The guard sat at the next table over.

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Lenore's face lost all color, all she could utter was . "I-I had fun too." Moose lept from James' arms and decided to play with Lenore's large skirt to keep him busy. Everyone in the restaurant seemed to know Lenore by name, but no one could recognize the young king. "So what would you like to do about it?" She smiled up at him, a little confused on what he wanted to do.

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James did not care that no one recognized him. It made things a little easier for him. He watched as Moose jumped down and he thought for a moment. "I don't know. I am not sure because you being around me is going to make your life more difficult. It always makes everything more complicated even if we are just friends. I don't really want to do that to you." He said looking at the table. "If we were to become more than that, then you would be the future queen. I don't know that you want that." He said still not looking at her. His life was always complicated and he hated that being with him instantly forced a huge responsibility onto the person.

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Lenore stared at James like he had three heads. "Your grace, what exactly are you saying?" She thought she was beginning to grasp what he was saying but needed to hear it from him. "What would you like me to do?" Lenore got a bit nervous, would she have to leave her shop. What would life be like for her inside the castle. What about her family and Moose. Lenore looked as if she could pass out at that moment

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James looked at Lenore as she stared at him. "I'm saying that I like you and maybe if you felt the same way, we could start talking about the possibility of seeing where this goes. But I am not going to force you to do anything and I..." He said trying to come up with the way to say it. "I am not sure that things will work out but I also don't want to make things go super fast because I am not sure that either of us is ready for that but we do need to discuss what this all changes even if we just be friends." He said looking at her not sure that he was making sense. He noticed that she looked like she was going to pass out. "Maybe we should wait to talk about this for a while..." He said. He watched as the waiter came over and asked what they wanted to drink and he got a water.

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Lenore smiled a bit. "Don't worry about me James, we can talk this through. So you want to be friends? You can still have balls and whatnot, to appease your advisors." She ordered and pulled Moose into her lap, who was half asleep but happy to be up with everyone else. Lenore yawned a bit and then blush. "I'm sorry for fall asleep while you were out last night, I didn't mean to." She looked up at him sheepishly, obviously rather embarrassed.