Confronted to a bitter past

"Isabelle what is happening?" the guy who I fell on spoke then turned simingly pinning me on the floor "Augh! , brother don't touch that trash" Clara spoke making me come back to my senses and i wiped away the tears on my face which proved my sadness.

"Clara never refer Isabelle to trash, Never I tell you" Luca spoke to his sister, trying to protect me "hahaha all the palace know you secretly love Isabelle and more so we know you interrupted your education to stop her from getting married to the emperor, is so funny how you got doubled by an old man, and more so, she even kissed him, I have proofs!" she spoke with an offensive look and later removed a phone from her cloths before showing a video of me kissing the Emperor followed by my moans and groans.

Luca felt hurt but ignored her and turned to me.

"Isabelle are you okay? " he asked with a concern look and later held my hand and took me away ,living Clara

behind us.

when we arrived at the garden, we sat at the same spot we did the day before. "Isabelle was that really you on that video? " he asked with sadness roaming on his voice.

My mind was flooded with all types of thoughts, my spirit asked me several questions, i don't know why but my eyes started crying by themselves and my body shivered like a scared dog . My mind then drifted to the thoughts of my Mom, if she was here, am sure nothing of this could happen, no one could put my name in that stupid wife list. "Isabelle are you okay, please stop crying, remember once you told me you will never cry because of a male" the guy hugged me in reason to console me but some second after he hugged me, i blacked out hearing his voice more and more distant.

I opened my eyes and I was near my mom's temple (were her death body sleeps) , i was near enough to see myself crying ten years later. ♡did I go back to the past?♡ I asked myself, suddenly I saw a tall guy approaching the crying ten years old me.

Oh my God, it was the Emperor, by then I didn't know the face of the Emperor and thought it was a kind person.

"What do you want? go away, i don't want to talk to anyone" young Isabelle spoke with her head into her folded arms in a sitting position, hiding her face from the intruder. " I see a young lady who needs to be comforted, what if the brave girl look up to me for a little " the Emperor spoke and the girl did as he said before putting herself back in the same position "Belle why are you sad?" he spoke then sad close to her "Because my mom is gone forever and my dad keeps ignoring my presence" she spoke and re-sat a little bit far from him making him chuckle "I was a very nice friend of your mom, she told me she had a cute daughter but I didn't know you were so cute when crying" Twilight spoke with a cheerful smile making little me look at him and wipe away my tears "Handsome passerby please stop tissing me " little me spoke while folding my arms and pumping my jaws with air which made Twilight laugh and pet my hair making it a little messy.

"A little girl like you don't have to distinct between handsome and ugly" he smiled while talking like my dad. "My mom said I had to be strong and also thought me many things, she said I had to choose a handsome man to get married to, just like you but that is not what I want" she began speaking with a light up face which turned sad as she proceeded "So what do you want little belle ?" Twilight asked shifting close to the little girl "I want to go to school like my friend Luca and also rule a kingdom by myself?" little Isabelle replied .

The Emperor removed a dagger from his pants and put it into the hands of the little girl before removing his shirt " Now belle you will mark me, for me not to forget this promise " he held the little girls hand and both of them wrote belle on his chest ,to start, the hands of the little girl was shivering a little but seeing his smile made her comfortable "Remember me cause when you will grow up, i will come for you and take you as my wife accomplishing all your wishes. Take this dagger and if anyone ask you about it,is your mom who gave you it " Twilight then took his shirt and left the little girl there, completely comfused.

Oh no I repeated several times the dagger belong to my mom that I actually forgot were the dagger was from and the event that preceded it.

When I opened my eyes, many people were towering over me with concerned faces which got light up immediately after I opened my eyes "Isabelle my love are you ok ?" my dad spoke followed by every one who were around him. "I think she is find" the old doctor spoke "Will it be possible for her to move?" my dad asked and the doctor nodded yes before living with everyone in exception of my dad.

"Isabelle you know that if you get married to the Emperor, the status of our family will get higher and daddy will like his daughter to live the richest life possible" my dad spoke but I didn't have neither the courage nor the will to reply him "Isabelle rest now, soon Norea will come get you to prepare for your wedding tonight" And he left giving me a kiss on my forehead.