Lost

Chapter Two

*dream*
I watched my five year old self playing in the forest with my eighteen year old sister Caroline. When some men came into the clearing where we were. They approached us menacingly.

Caroline knew that they meant no good. She told me to run home and find dad.

I watched as I turned to run and one of the men grabbed me and held a knife to my throat. My younger self was terified. My sister tried reasoning with them but they wouldn't have it.

One of the men grabbed my sister and forced her to lead them to our house. As we approached my father and mother came out of the house. Father stepped forward to speak with the men but he was grabbed and forced to his knees.

One of the men stepped up to him. "Where is she? Where is the princess?" This man demanded. "We don't know, we never did." My dad said. "Answer or let your family watch you die." The man said as my siblings were forced outside.

"I don't know. Where she is." My father says. Then the man pulls a knife out of his belt and puts it to dad's throat. "Well, seeing as you would rather protect her then save yourself. Any last words?" He said.

"Carolina, please take care of our little star. She will be something special someday. Boys take care of your mother and sisters, especially Cordette she will need your brotherly love. Girls help your mother. I love you all. We watched in horror as he slit my dad's throat.

A scream left me as I started awake. The carriage had come to a stop and the door was thrown open. In the open door stood the most beautiful man I had ever seen. A look of worry was on his face. He was wearing the uniform of the royal guard.

"What's wrong miss?" He asked me. "It a nightmare. Something that happened to me when I was younger." "Are you ok?" "I think so." He steped back as another guard came to the door, only this time it was a selection guard, "We are here Miss. Henry." He said as he held out his hand for me.

I took his hand as I climbed down from the carriage. I looked around in awe at the castle. There were four other girls in a line in facing the main doors. As the guard led me over to them I noticed that they were all finely dressed. I looked down at myself. I'm really out of place with my everyday dress and work boots on. As I join the line a woman dressed in the clothing of a tutor exits the castle.

"Girls, you have been selected by the king and queen to be here." Looking at me with disgust she says. "You are expected to dress and act as a princess. You will all be assigned a lady in waiting. Please follow me and I will have the maids will show you to your room's." With that we head into the castle.

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The picture is of the castle the girls are at.