DAMSEL IN DISTRESS

I couldn't take it anymore, I just couldn't. It's been two weeks now and my movements were restricted.

I was not allowed to come out of my room, I was frustrated.

Just yesterday, a man arrived at my room as my new shoe maker, I was more than angry, why would my father go as far as putting a person who doesn't even know the basics of shoe patching as a royal cobbler just for the sake of me not seeing Kieran.

The shoe he made was absolute nonsense, you couldn't differ the left foot from the right, it was made straight and when I tried putting my legs in, I was pricked by a pin.

This is preposterous.

I was brought out of my river of thought by a knock on my door.

"Yes?" I yelled annoyed.

"It's me dear.." I heard the voice of the woman that carried me for nine months.

Dear, that was the sweetest word she ever used for me.

The woman that never showed me what a mother and daughter relationship was all in the name of prestige. It was just a mother child connection, I guess you could say placenta, that still made sure we were in good terms.

My mother and I didn't argue nor did we ever fight, it was just a normal relationship. She was good to me and I was good to her.

She never braided my hair when I was young, it was always the maids.

Even through out my years in school, she never once came to any celebration. It was always from one royal meeting to the other.

I get that she needs to carry out duties as the queen but she's a mother and She also had motherly duties on which she performed poorly.

She didn't even teach me a damn thing about puberty, it was all imogen's mother, I remembered when I got my first monthly flow.

Kieran and I where at the garden when I heard a shriek from Kieran, I saw the fear in his eyes as I tried to ask him what it was. He told me he thinks a rose had pricked my bum and it was bleeding a lot.

When I turned back, true to his words, my off white dress was stained with blood, I almost fainted out of fear as Kieran ran inside to call his mom.

When his mom came, she told us that it was a crushed tomato stain that had mistakenly entered my dress and sent Kieran off to tell the maids I needed a new dress as she explained to me what it was to have monthly flow. After that day, she made sure she cautioned me on many other things and when we were grown ups and Kieran later knew about monthly flow, he would tease me.

Still, my mother was attending to snobby rich men and women who cared about money and fame more than their own family.

Even when I went for dancing classes, she was never there to tell me if I did well or what not, I've never heard her laugh, just smiles and smiles.

That was why I was so used to Imogen and Kieran, they were like the siblings I never had, well except for the fact I fell in love with the boy.

Who wouldn't fall in love with him, he had lushy forest green eyes, a brown mop of hair which was always left messy due to his less attempt to tame it, fine nose, red lips and his physique and prominent jaw....he was quite a cardiac killer.

And to put the cherry on the cake, she join hands with my father to arrange my marriage with that incompetent rapist behind my back.

"Graciella dear." My mother called again.

"Go away mother." My voice was raspy from not talking for days.

"Please open up child, you need to eat." She said knocking softly again.

"I said go away." I yelled as I burst out in tears.

"Just please eat your food." She said still knocking.

"Mother, like I said,go away, I don't want to see or talk to you." I yelled as I laid on my bed using my pillow to cover my ears.

"You better not do anything you'll regret child." She said, fatigue clear in her voice.

"What's worse than me regretting ever coming to life through people who don't care about my well being." I dryly laughed.

"I care about your welfare graciella, that's why I want you to eat." She whined.

"If you and father care about me then cancel the wedding." I voiced out.

"If only we can." She mumbled but I heard her.

What's really going on?

Are they forcing my parents too?

But they are both royals and have their own say. So why can't they cancel the wedding? I can't get married to that bastard.

"Then leave, I have no word to say to you." I said closing my eyes as I listen to her pleas from the other side.

After about five minutes, she left, guess she gave up, no stress, no she didn't need stress, she had to look composed and pretty for the public

What kind of parents would want their daughter to get married to a rapist, a stupid and rich one at that, who could get away with anything without getting caught.

Like I said, this is preposterous.

There is something wrong somewhere and I had to find out.

I don't even know where they have taken Imogen to, and Kieran? I fear they might harm him because yesterday when I checked to see if guards where still at my door I saw the maid he introduced to me that day talking with another maid outside my door.

I overheard them saying Kieran has been missing for a few days now and I'm so scared and wondered how my life changed from a fairy tale princess to a damsel in distress.

Oh Lord, help me!