9 | Alone

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Ouch

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Ouch...

I stabbed my little toe on the leg of my table and now it's hurting like hell.

Well, I'm sure hell hurts more but this hurts too. I sit on the edge of my chair and bring up my toe- it's bleeding. What is my table made of? 

Glass? 

... Wait, it is made of glass. Anyway, back to my bleeding toe.

"Darce! Can you bring the first-aid kit please!", I yell to nowhere in particular cause I have no idea where she is. I wait for a few, trying to stop the bleeding.

"Darce?", I stand. She normally comes when I call for her. "Darce!?" I try again.

Where the hell is this woman? I have a bleeding toe!

I walk all around my bedroom and my bathroom and my 5 walk-in closets and my vault and my living room kind of place attached to my bedroom- but no luck, she is nowhere to be found.

It's time to go to the next best alternative, my mother.

I walk outside and see no one in the halls. Weird; normally the guards would be patrolling this area. I keep walking until I reach my parent's bedroom.

Opening the door, I peep inside to see it all empty. Huh? Normally it'd be full of maids running around, doing the daily tasks.

Okay, this is getting weird, where is everyone?

Wait, is it my birthday...?

No, it's not for a long time. Is it someone else's birthday? Well, none that I know of anyway.

I run to the throne room. My parents HAVE to be there. They have to.

They're not there.

I checked the kitchens, the ballrooms, and the gardens. In fact, no one is here. Literally, not one human being is in the palace. I screamed and yelled and cried and shouted but no one answered. No one is here.

I slowly walk back to my room- wait; I never checked Aden's quarters.

I practically run to his doors before bursting them open, "Aden?"

Silence. Just silence.

"WHERE IS EVERYONE OH MY GOD", I yell and break down, falling to the floor. I lean against the wall and bring my knees to my chest, hugging them tightly.

It's okay. Calm down. People must be in the town or something... maybe mom and dad are visiting the people.

That doesn't mean that the whole palace follows them.

Okay, you know what, instead of being the scared little princess, why don't we go figure out what is going on. I need to go into town.

Standing up and brushing my dress off of dust, I walk back inside my bedroom, "Darce! I'm heading to the town and I need my dress, and... you're not here.", I talk to myself.

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