Songrose bit her lip; it was rather obvious he was lying, but she wasn't one to push that issue; not when he might have a good enough reason to be lying. She glanced up as Aiden moved away, mxing up some sorts of liquids. She frowned, unsure of what he was doing, until he shoved the mixture down his assistants throat. She watched, concerned, but it actually seemed to be useful. As she stood up, she glanced at Aiden, talking about the price of the healing potion. She rolled her eyes; she didn't really care, because she didn't plan on needing them any time soon. But, the fact was, she had already seen all that she needed to. He was concerned for this kid, and using something that was apparengtly worth a lot to help him out, but was doing his best to upset her. She was going to be stubborn, then, she decided. At least, as best as she could.
She watched as Phillip went off to do as Aiden asked, then back to Aiden. She winced a little internally at the glare he was giving her. She paused, then looked awa as he started to speak to her, in an attempt to hide her flush. The fact was, she hadn't thought it through; she didn't know why she had accepted it in the first place; why she had even gone to the ball to be engaged to this prince. But she knew why she was sticking around now. But how was she going to pull this one off, she wondered, glancing around the room as the flush faded from her cheeks. She turned her attention back to Aiden.
"It's not something...like that; I haven't fallen for anyone...least of all...you." she was hesitating over her words again, but perhaps it was better to get that part out of the way clearly; he was being far too rude to haven fallen in love with. Now, if he had been the same person as when he showed such concern for the boy, it might have been a different story. But she quickly shook that thought aside. She quickly removed all the hesitation from her voice now. "The reasoning before is irrelevant. The reasoning now is to irritate you as much as I can. After all, isn't that what you've been trying to do? I want to figure out why you seem to hate me so much, and perhaps find a way to fix that. I don't like it when people so obviously have a problem with me, so I intend to fix it. That good enough for you?" she added her question. Hopefully that was good enough. She didn't really have anything else to fall back on, and she couldn't keep coming up with stuff like that out of nowhere. She had some thinking to do now, in case that somehow backfired.