An Unwilling Bond

Chapter One

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Eliana POV:

I walk down the big stairs that lead to the ballroom. Today is my brother, Adam's birthday, hence we have a big ball tonight, where all kinds of people from all kingdoms are invited. Even the Ganiers, and I am not looking  forward to see Mattheo today.

I'm wearing a dark green dress, the top with its lace pattern fitting me perfectly, not too tight, but not too wide. The sleeves that start right under my shoulders cling around my arms, ending at my wrists. The skirt falls a little bit loosely around my legs, just ever so slightly hitting the floor.
My hair half up, half down. Anna, my maid, styled it perfectly as always with a little silver tiara, which has emerald diamonds, on it.

I enter the gold, adorned ballroom, some people acknowledging me and giving me a decent little bow. My parents are already there, sitting on their splendid thrones, waiting for my brother to arrive, to announce the start of the ball.
I already want to go up to my room again and be alone. And be my genuine self. I only have to endure this for a few hours, I think.

My brother and his wife finally arrive, the quartet playing festive music pieces. People start dancing to the music on the dance floor. Others are congratulating Adam and giving him presents. My parents left their thrones and are currently talking to some of our guests. I grab some little chunks from one of the counters and take a glass of champagne by a waiter. 
I would love to get drunk tonight and forget everything, but I can't, because once I consume too much alcohol, I can hardly control myself and I don't want to do Adam a mischief.

Generally speaking, I like my brother, even though sometimes he's pretty annoying and my parents prefer him over me, because he's the heir to the throne, but can you blame them? They don't need me for anything, you could say I'm like a burden to them, they don't even care for me. Some day they're going to choose somebody for me to marry, I am expecting some sort of duke, and that's it. My brother on the other side, is going to be the next king and he's responsible for inheriting the royal blood.

After an hour, already exhausted, I look across the hall, only to find the one and only Mattheo Ganier walking towards me. Every time I see his handsome face I just want to punch it. Nothing really bad happened between us, but still we can't stand each other.  His gaze is focused on me, he's smirking. I look into his green-brownish eyes, they looking right into my brown eyes too. I catch myself freezing  for  a moment, unable to look away from him. „Could I have a dance, your highness?", he asks me in his smirking tone, kind of kneeling on one knee, knowing damn well he's annoying the shit out of me with his ,picture-perfect-prince-attitude'. I accept his offer out of kindness and give him my hand, so he can kiss the back of it. We then start proceeding to the dance floor.

We dance a pretty slow waltz, I really try to like him and lead a simple conversation with him, but I somehow can't. He's always talking in this sarcastic tone and not really taking me seriously. I wish I could enjoy this dance, since he's a very good dancer, but he keeps asking me questions.

„So tell me, why haven't I seen you on the dance floor yet? It cannot be, that there is not anyone here that would like to dance with a girl like you.", he says. „Well, maybe it is because I do not wish to dance, thus I avoid them as much as I can." „You didn't try to avoid me.", he states with a big smirk on his face. I don't know what to answer. I could have gone to the bathroom, could have talked to guests, but I chose to stand still and waited for him to come up to me. „Oh, now did I say something wrong? You don't want to talk to me anymore, your highness?" he says snapping me out of my thoughts. Before I can answer, the song finally ends and I tell him I have to go, just to steer clear of his question.

I decide to tell my mother that I don't feel well and have a headache, to excuse myself and get to my room. I don't bother saying goodbye to my brother and wishing him a nice evening, since he seems to enjoy himself.

Exhausted I take a bath, read a book and then go to bed. I just want to sleep and escape from reality and my thoughts.

A/N: Hi! So this is  my first  ever chapter.

I have so many ideas for this book in my mind, can't wait to write them all down.

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