Her baby knight

Chapter 1. Arabella

Ok hi!! This is my first ever story thank you so much for reading! Enjoy!

Arabella POV
As I awake in the mourning I feel the cool breeze coming for my window. The kingdom I live in is rather dark, completely swallowed in the shadows, which is another thing I love about it.

I take off my bonnet, revealing my straight hair. My hair is usually curly but I straightened it to make people think I'm prettier. When I finally step out of bed my feet touch the floor which is absolutely freezing. I throw on some socks and prepare to go yell at the maids for not making sure my room is warm.

I'm not usually the rude type, but anyone who knows me knows I'm not a mourning person and will not deal with foolishness. I make my way to the maid and open my mouth to say something before she gestures behind me to my very unamused mother.

"Mom!" I chuckle nervously before continuing. " I was just on my way to you, why are you up so early? Do you have work today?" I go on trying to disregard from the fact I was about to yell at a maid for something I now realize was not that serious. "No I do not have work today dear, you do. But I assume you forgot about the application you sent in, just like how you forgot that you asked your maids not to warm your room in regard to the fever you had last night." My mother then raised a disapproving eyebrow at me.

I look down at my feet as the maid pats my back and walks away. "You young lady sent in an application to become the queens knight yesterday and you are about to be late if you don't start getting ready right about...NOW."
I scurry away to get in the shower before my mother can get one more rude remark out.

As I make to my room and shut the door a wave of relief covers me with a wave of concern and regret swarming right after.
"What was I thinking?" I whisper to myself as if someone was in the same room as me. "A knight? Seriously? I'm doomed. I can barely speak to my own mother let alone the queen!"

I then rush to the bathroom to take a quick shower. As the water starts running I take off my night gown. I can't help but look at the scars on my body thinking about how idiotic I act at times and wishing I could go back and never inflict these upon myself. I hear a knock at the door and head into the shower ignoring the noise.

Being in the shower gives me time to think..or well speak out loud without anyone hearing. "My resume is impeccable and I was born in a financially stable family. There's no way she'll pass me up which means I'll have to find another way out of this." I know this is possibly an amazing opportunity but I am far too shy for that job.

I grab my loofah and scrub my body. Hard. I want these stupid scars and stupid thoughts to go away. I start regretting everything and consider just going to lay down and call this off. When I hear a louder knock at my door I realize I need to rush and quickly get dressed.
I put on a pink long flowy dress in hopes of the queen thinking I'm informal and denying me.

" Arabella rosa-line thornwood!" My mom is screaming through the door. Most likely mad that I'm officially late. "Yes mother?" I say annoyed already knowing what she's upset about. " The queen is outside Arabella!!" Wait what?

I get dressed in my long dress with Mary Jane's and fluffy socks. When rushing out my room I practically throw myself down the stairs and get greeted by an extremely intimidating look from the queen herself. "Oh my good Eclipsa-"

So that was my first chapter. If I suck at this please tell me. I'm kinda thinking of not doing the whole author thing. Bye! -Sahara 🎀