Princess Of The Underworld (Draft Copy)

Chapter 2- Birthday

As I lay in my bed with my eyes still closed, I heard a faint knock on my door, my eyes shot wide open, and I sat up from my bed and said "who is it?" I stayed sitting on my bed waiting for an answer when a familiar French accent voice was heard from the other side of the door " it's me, your faaave vamp" I smiled and giggled before then saying "Ellerosé, you may enter" then all of a sudden, the door burst wide opened and a medium height, slim built, long wavy curl pink, blue and purple pastel coloured hair vampire walked in, with a big smile on her face.

Ellerosé was my close friend who is very much like a sister to me as we were friends when we were both younglings, except Ellerosé is older than me by six years, making her twenty-five years old.

Ellerosé started to walk over towards me, which I then stood up and gave her the biggest hug ever, Ellerosé then said excitedly "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE MOST AMAZING VAMPIRE PRINCESS EVER!" I laughed and replied with "thanks" without thinking of it, mid-way my voice had changed to a sad tone, Ellerosé knew and heard my voice, pulling away with a frown on her face saying "why the sad tone?" I sighed and said while walking away to my window "my father and mother want me to find a suitable suitor for me to rule with.. so they invited all the royal male vampires from far and wide, but I don't want any of that, I want to see and explore the world.."

Ellerosé replied, "you haven't told your parents yet, have you?" I shook my head and said, "no.. they will just say it's too dangerous ect ect" Ellerosé interrupted "Livana that's not what I mean, I mean the fact that you haven't told them that you're not interested in 'men-' I ran up to Ellerosé covering her mouth with my hands "shhh not so loud" Ellerosé just stood there giggling softly with her eyes glistening while pushing my hands away "don't worry Livana no one is around except us, besides they are all busy anyways preparing for your birthday blood feast."

I sighed in relief and said, "yeah, but still have to be careful on what you say" Ellerosé smiled, "don't worry, now let's get you ready" while holding up the most stunning dress ever "Ellerosé.." I began to say but then stopped as I was shocked at the dress Ellerosé held up, I went over and took the dress from her feeling it, it was silky soft, and I just loved the colour of it which was navy blue. I quickly went into my private bathroom to put it on. Once it was on, I walked out to show Ellerosé, I saw her eyes widen in excitement while saying "OMG, Livana it suits you so well!" I did a little twirl in it, and we both giggled before proceeding on getting ready.

When we both were nearly ready with just our hair to do, Ellerosé brushed my long black hair making sure it stayed in place and silky smooth. We then both heard a knock on my door and a small quiet voice saying "Your highness, we are all ready whenever you are" I looked at Ellerosé, and we both smiled at each other and said "we are ready" I got up and placed my tiara on my head before then opening my door and walking out into the hall.

Ellerosé walked beside me as we approached the two big double doors that lead to the grand ballroom "ready?" Ellerosé said, I took a deep breath and nodded my head while saying "ready as I'll ever be" and with that, the big double doors opened, revealing the grand ballroom. Once the doors had opened, I saw that the grand ballroom was filled with so many vampires from the underworld, some of course were family relatives, as Ellerosé and myself walked down the long flight of stairs, everyone clapped and cheered while saying "Happy Birthday Livana."

I held my head high and put on my best poker face I could do, while slightly bowing my head at everyone we passed. My father had walked up to me and took my hand to have the first dance with me, I smiled and began dancing as soon as the music started, the dance we were doing was called the waltz, I had memorized every step, as over the years I had practiced.

Other guests began joining us in the waltz before then, one bold male vampire royal stepped in to dance with me, I was hesitant and was about to say something, but my father allowed the young man to dance with me. Not wanting to disappoint my father, I kept quiet and just smiled slightly and bowed my head proceeding on with the dance. I felt as if I was here and wasn't at the same time as my mind would always wander to what the outside world was like, but I stayed professional and kept dancing with the many young royal vampire men, to be completely honest, Ellerosé was right, I didn't like men at all, it just didn't feel right at all.

When the dance ended, I curtsied while the last male vampire I danced with bowed, everyone had then applauded. After the dance, I excused myself and walked to get a drink. I scanned the whole ballroom, trying to find where Ellerosé was, once I saw her, she was talking to some of my family members. I sighed, and then my mother walked up and stood beside me while saying "so many lovely young men we have here, surely one of them is the perfect suitor for you" I looked at my mother and gave a small smile and said " yeah..if you say so."

My mother then looked at me and said "is everything ok, dear?" I sighed "how did you know dad was the one for you?" My mother then laughed before then proceeding on to say "you just know, everything around you just either stops or slows down, and you feel like your in the moment and it is just the two of you in the room" after hearing those words, my mother walked to find my father who was talking to one of the young male vampire men. How am I to tell them that men don't interest me one bit?

As the night proceeded, I looked to the double doors and slowly made my way over to them to try and leave this place. but before I could reach them, my father stopped me "Livana!" I stopped when I heard him call me, 'shoot' I thought to myself before I turned around and smiled saying "father" while walking toward him. He then introduced me to the twentieth royal young male vampire I had danced with "this is Demetri" Demetri had took my hand while saying "It is an honor to meet you, Princess" and with that, he planted a kiss on the back of my hand. I kept a poker face on with a smile, but inside I was puking and thinking, 'eww' I then pulled my hand away and placed my hands behind my back, wiping the kiss off on my dress.

After talking to Demetri my father kept calling the other young royal vampire men over for me to meet. 'fuck' I thought to myself as I knew this would take forever and I knew I would just be annoyed, I just want to be free, I don't want this at all. After with only meeting and talking to a few young male royals, I then felt something inside me snap and before I knew it I had yelled "ENOUGH I CAN'T FUCKING DO THIS ANYMORE" I held my hands up to my head and then the whole ballroom went from being noisy with chatter to then dead silence and whispers as I then knew and felt everyone's eyes on me 'Shit Shit Shit' I thought to myself, oh well guess it's now or never.