Chapter 1.2 The Kingdom, The Rules, The Reality

"Darling please don't do this today. Just for today, let it slip.", mother pleaded. Father simply sighed and told us to do as we please. The rules states that the kingdoms' royal family shall never have a dirty blood, meaning, they shall never be married or have kids from outside the royal bloodline in their own country. Some twisted rule huh? But it's true, and I hate this truth.

We have a golden rule for every country, the same golden rule stating that there shall never be a dirty blood join the royalties, else the kingdom shall be swallowed by darkness and become a part of the deadman wonderland. Although nobody has ever proven that, that kind of world exits, every royalties in each kingdom strictly follows the rule and as its proof, mother and father were siblings.

The same golden rule that made me suffer for years from an expected mutual love with my brother to an unrequited love. They taught us the rules repeatedly like a lullaby and told us their stories like how they grow up from siblings to a happily married couple. Centuries by centuries, we follow the rules, we take the rules by the heart, i do too, but my brother don't.

Henry fell in love with a red haired girl from another kingdom and to make it worse, the girl is not even a royal blood. I still remember how I raged on him that day when he told me about it, i threw him everything my hands lay on, even a sword. I rained him with questions like; doesn't he love me?, why won't he follow the rules?, mother and father were siblings yet they love each other, why can't he love me the same?.

Surprisingly, his answer was simple, told me he love me, but only as a sister, nothing more, he told me that what I felt about him was an infatuation love and that someday I'll understand him when I experience real love. He was understanding in a way that he never once spoke about the girl and never stopped caring about me while waiting for me to understand.

I did understand, I did understand him but I also know that what I felt for him was real love, it's not infatuation, I wouldn't suffer for three long years if it's just an infatuation love. I know it's real love, I know I do, because he, the new love of my life courted me for two long years just for me to get over Henry.

My heart beats fast just by hearing his voice and thinking about him. He turns me into a shy type girl in love whenever we're together. And he makes me smile in every time I think about him. I love him, I love my man, and luckily this day is our first anniversary. That's why I'm so excited that I can't even hide my smile, I can't even stop thinking about him, about us. My smile even grow wider as we arrive to our destination.