Chapter one

       There was a knock on the door? "Come in, the door is open" she said

        The Queen came and dismiss the maids, already they are true in dressing her. She seat opposite beside her and look up at her with million questions in her eyes.

        Then, before she could open her mouth to ask, trying to say something

        "The time hascome, Betsy," she said, with confidence.

        "Huh,? How?"

        "The time for you to get married."

        So she tells me many things, that I should be respectful to my husband and also tells me to always make him happy and some other things she said to me and also tells me not to be afraid, so she didn't allow her to utter any word, so she went out of the room.

         She called one of the maids, she don't like being alone.

         Since my entire life I had been preparing for this day. I always knew that I was never going to be able to choose whom to marry because I was a woman and a princess. I didn't have any rights at all.

        In fact, my father viewed me as a tool to gain more power, to create an alliance with the kingdom of Brunei-a very powerful kingdom- by marrying me off to one of their princes.

         "For a prince and princess, the kingdom comes first," Father said. Your desire for something comes after."

        Yeah, right. it could be for a prince, but not for a princess. If a prince married for alliance and didn't like his wife, he could just marry another one. Usually most of them had several wives and mistresses, but for a princess the story was different. There's nothing she could do. She just had to please her husband and watch as he married other woman when he gets bored with her. I felt my blood boil, but now was not the time to get angry. 

        Leaving all the bad thoughts behind me, I studied myself in the mirror. My maids had spent hours preparing me, making me look more beautiful than I was. I was wearing a white and golden dress, and my brown hair was combed back beautifully with golden hair pins in the shapes of flowers and leaves. My maids try their best to give me a prefect makeup, the only problem was the jewelry. They were beautiful and also gold in color but heavy, now I was wearing a lot of them. I was already feeling weak because of nervousness, or was it fear? I didn't know, but I was feeling sick. There was a tangle in my stomach that refused to go away no matter how hard I tired to calm down. She came in? 

        "My lady, don't you like the dress?" Ruby asked.

        Ruby could see the fear on my face.

        "Everything will be alright," she told me. "Don't listen to the rumors, they are nothing but just that. Maybe your husband is a nice man," she tired to sound positive, but I could hear the doubt in her voice.

        Not that I believed the rumors, but they did affect me. I wasn't scared because people said that he body flame when ever he get angry, they couldn't be speaking literally. They were probably referring to his personality, that has a hot tempter, a manipulator or that he was just pure evil, and that's what scared me.

        A knock on the door interrupted my thoughts, and shortly after a court lady came in.

        "My lady, it's time" she informed me.

        I descended the stairs, careful not to fall or stumble, but it was hard with the long dress and the heavy jewelry. I was relieved when there were only a few steps left, but just then I stepped on my dress and stumbled forward, almost falling before a strong arm came around my waist and saved me from ruining myself on my wedding day.