A Twisted Fairytale

Preface

Preface

Once upon a time in a far of land...

    Seems like a pretty traditional beginning to a fairytale, but this fairytale is a little twisted. This a story of polarities. It one about love yes, but also of heartbreak. One of scheming and betrayal, but also a tale of loyalty and reconciliation. And to top it off it is occasionally a bit cliche in the best of ways, but don't let that fool you, it just might shock you. Now back to the story...

    In this beautiful kingdom there were many princes, but only five worth mentioning; Prince Zayn and Prince Louis of the Tomlick family, Prince Harry and Prince Niall of the Storan family, and Prince Liam of the Payno family. They came from the three wealthiest and most noble families in all of the kingdom. The ladies of the land would swoon over them, doing anything to catch their gaze and possibly gain a crown of their own. As summer drew near each year all the ladies in the land that were of age would hold their breaths hoping an invitation would arrive for them to spend the summer at Tomlick Manor. Every summer for as long as could be remembered the manor would host the most notable and wealthy nobles and royals of the land and abroad. Officially for the purpose of furthering educations and learning etiquette. What actually happened at the manor over the summer was a different story. Yes, they would do lessons during the week, but from sun down on Friday to sun up on Sunday Prince Zayn and Prince Niall were known for throwing the most extravagant events that one could only dream of attending, and parents could only hope were mere rumors. It was during summers at the manor that many of the ladies would try to make a move on the princes, and some would occasionally be successful. More often than not the ladies would return home empty handed with only the memories of their stolen moments with the princes. For many that was enough, for others they spent fall staining their pillows with tears.

    To the dismay of many last summer Prince Harry found a fancy with Prince Liam's sister Lady Amber. They spent the entire summer practically inseparable, until about five weeks before the end of summer. Prince Harry left the manor early and Lady Amber spent the rest of her summer with swollen eyes, begging her brother to return home early as well. No one ever found out what happened between them, and no one dares to ask either. When Prince Harry left the manor no one heard from him until mid winter, when he showed up in some village pub past the outskirts of the Tomlick's wheat fields. He then proceeded to spend weeks bouncing around from tavern to tavern gambling and barely spending a moment sober. His brother, Prince Niall, finally found him and brought him home talking some sense into him. Lady Amber spent her winter cooped up in her room reading, painting, writing, and not taking any visitors. She was in no mood to talk about her summer and was trying each day to forget it.

    As summer drew near the topic of many's afternoon tea conversation was Lady Amber and Prince Harry. Many questioned if Lady Amber would return to Tomlick Manor this summer and if Prince Harry would be there as well. They discussed their theories about what happened, if they would speak to each other again, whose fault it was, if Lady Amber and Prince Harry would pursue others, and so many other what ifs. But always came back to the question of will either one return this summer? It looks as if they will have the answers to all their questions and more in due time, but in the meantime they continue their tea time gossip

AN/ I've been writing for too long to edit this in depth. So if there are errors I do not want to know. -iz 💜