The Legend of the Fall Princess

Chapter 1 Introduction

At age 4 my mom introduced me to the Legend of the Fall Princess. My favorite childhood book. Every time the season Fall would come and I would want to read the book, and every Fall I would. Ever since I was little I wanted to be the Fall princess, and by the age of 13 by father found it ridicules that I still believed in such things. That one night on September 1st I got it out to read. The story goes like this:

There was a time when all the seasons would meet together and greet the new seasons. Every season had a character, Summer had a laughter fairy, Spring had a bright yellow flower that would bloom, Winter had a snow flake that would be the first to drop. Lastly Fall had a princess, The Fall princess. They would salute Summer and welcome in fall. It was the Fall princesses duty to take care of all things fall, and you had to make a promise you would. Everything around all the little children in fall was made by the princess. But there comes a time that the fall princess has to say goodbye and welcome in winter. At the end of Fall there is a ceremony to greet a new princess and thank the old for all she has done. Then the old begins to train the new, and by the time fall comes again she is ready to take on her new task.

When I was younger it seemed as the story spoke directly to me, thats why I loved it so very much. But on September 1st I was reading the book and my father approached me and asked me "why do you still love that book?" I replied by saying "because this book gives me hope that one day I can be the Fall Princess." That answer wasn't good enough for him so he said "BreeAnne I love you but I can't let you think that this will ever come true, so I'm taking the book away from you."

In that time period mom and dad didn't often say kind things to each other. So when my mother found out about this it created a huge fight, and my mother took me and left. They then got a divorce and my mother found an apartment. As we began a new life I had always wondered what had happened to that book of mine, but ever since that night I've only seen my father once or twice and I'm now 14. I still would like to see my father again and I'm allowed to but It's been hard helping my mother adjust to a new life.