Chapter 4: My favourite place
After hours of dancing, I had finally managed to slip away. My legs were hurting so bad. After the opening dance, there was the couples dance, nobles dance and general dance each lasting an hour or more. I personally have no idea why we had so many dances in our tradition. It was like our ancestors couldn't live a day without dancing.
Practically everyone was in the ballroom so it was quite easy to escape. I entered into my room and sighed, relieved that no one was inside. I slid open the glass door that took up almost a whole wall of my room and entered my garden. My garden was very special to me because it's a gift from my mother and it became my favourite place in the Palace because of its unique flowers and beauty.
It used to be alot bigger when I got it but Angelique wanted part of my garden and so stepmother had a wall built which separated my side and Angelique's side of the garden which was alot more than half. I walked towards the center of my garden. At the center of my garden was my white swing.
It wasn't very big and can only comfortably contain two people and flowers were arranged to form an arc around the swing. I sat down the grass in a knee bent position and picked up a lily rose sniffed the fragrance for a few seconds before putting it in my hair. Lily roses are my favourite type of flower. They look like a lily but have the fragrance of a rose and they have blue stripes spreading from the center to the petals.
I laid my head down on the swing careful as to not make it rock. It had been a long time since I'd been able to come here and staying here especially on that day made me miss my mother more than ever.
Never in my life did I ever imagine that I'd have to live without my mother. Everything felt so wrong. My body shook as tears poured out of my eyes. "Oh mom!" I cried clasping my in my hand.
"If you were here, none of this would be happening ... God why did you take my sweet mother away, she was the kindest and purest of heart. What did you leave me mom?" I said sobbing more and more with each word. I could feel my muscles caving with exhaustion but I just couldn't stop. I sat in that position for a very long time crying my eyes out. When I finally stopped crying and was able to catch my breath, I was exhausted. I struggled to stand as I stumbled towards my room.
I leaned on the door of the garden, wondering what to do next. It'd be a while before I had to come and see the guests out with Damien and tomorrow was the tea ceremony. I finally decided to write a letter to Zeke, the stranger I had met on my fourteenth birthday. I poured my heart out to him in the letter, knowing that it would be the last letter I would ever get to write to him and I couldn't help but remember what it was like when my mother was still alive.
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5: A proper introduction.
Chapter 5: A proper introduction.
My name is Alyssa Elise Vasquez. I am the fourth child and youngest daughter of the current king of Darinton, Edward Vasquez . I have an older brother, two sisters and one younger brother.
My father and mother met at a carnival and my father who was just a prince at the time was infatuated with her beauty. She had dark silky brown hair and blue eyes. All of her features I inherited.
My mother was a commoner which is why my grandfather despised her. He gave my father an ultimatum to choose between my mother and the throne. But in reality, he had no choice; my dad would have inherited the throne either way because he was the only descendant left of the royal family.
Shortly after my father became king, he and my mother got married. My brother and I were born shortly after with a 3 year age gap and everything was perfect. I was fourteen years old when I went to visit my cousins in Aragorn for a few months and when l returned I wad met with the news of my mother's death.
Apparently a few weeks after I had left for Aragorn, my mother fell ill. She was sick for five and died soon after. But no one had bothered to tell me and that wasn't even the worst part. It wasn't even up to a month since my mother died before my father got married before my father got married to the general's daughter.
Arriving back in Palace I learned that not only had I gotten a new mother, I also had two older sisters. Veronica, who is two years older and Angelique, who is a year older than me. I also have a younger brother Raymond, who is three years younger than me.
My life in the palace wasn't easy. My two older sisters love to bully me, my stepmother the queen does everything to make, my life hard, always taking my sisters' side in everything, my father the king suddenly became indifferent towards me. Also my grandfather hated me and my brother because unlike my other siblings, we weren't born from a noble family.
The only ones that were good to me were my younger brother Raymond, who always plays with me during my free time and Luke, my older brother and my hand maids.
Four years passed by and living in the Palace as a third princess was not easy. The people of the kingdom of Aragorn don't know much about me. I used to be a center of attraction in the kingdom, the beautiful princess that everyone loves but now... now, I was the ignored, forgotten child.
I never left the Palace, never attended parties and balls with my family, never got the education I deserved, never got the quality lifestyle I deserved as a princess. Instead, I served as a servant to my sisters and step mother.
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