Aurelia and her sisters laughed happily with their mother. It was a bright sunny day and the warm sunlight shone through the windows in the ballroom.
"Higher,higher girls! On your TOES Jessenia! Twirl with more grace Miss Felicity! Get out of the way Violet the older girls are practicing!" Their mother laughed as she did an impression of their stuffy dance teacher Mr. Morris.
"Well doesn't it sound lovely in here?"
"Father!" All 11 girls rushed to him laughing twirling around,showing him their new dance slippers.
"Beautiful girls. Purely beautiful!"
"Father,Mother can't you two teach us the waltz you two danced when you first met at the Canterbury ball?" 12 year old Violet asked her brown eyes pleading.
"Oh yes please!" Chimed 8 year old twins Sarah and Genevieve.
Mother's smile faded and Father's sparkleing blue eyes looked sad.
"We can't darlings. Don't you remember? We are dead. Aurelia you of all the girls should remember."
Suddenly the brilliant ballroom scene faded and Aurelia was whisked off to her mother's death bed.
There in the middle of soft white sheets lay her mother. Her blond hair loosing it's color and her brown eyes moist with tears. She lay slowly dying clutching the newest princess.
"Aurelia promise me you will take care of her? Now that you will be queen she will need you. Promise me you will take care of her and the other girls. Promise me Aurelia so I may rest peacefully."
"No! No! Mother no! You can't die! You can't leave! Father already left and now you too!"
"Aurelia you know how this ends. Look."
Like a flash of light Aurelia was in a graveyard. The one by the palace wearing black. Everyone wore black. She held baby Gretel and two year old Delilahs hand.
Into the ground went a pearl white casket. Tears coursed down her face as she realized it was her mother. Next to the small plot was her father's grave.
The king. Killed by the same disease her mother was killed by. Then the world turned so black she couldn't see.
She could hear Gretel crying and her other sisters yelling for help. Yelling for her.
"You promised!" She heard her mother's voice ring out.
"Aurelia! Aurelia! Wake up!" With a hard shove from Jessenia Aurelia awoke sweat lining her eyebrows.
"Dream again?" Jessenia asked concerned.
"Yes this time it was worse though. This time I SAW her I didn't just hear her."
"Well try and rest some more. You nearly woke the others with your screaming. Remember now Aurelia your going to be the queen. You can't scare so easily." With that 15 year old Jessenia walked to bed her long red hair trailing down her back.
"Yes I can't forget." She whispered pulling the covers around her shoulders still shivering from the dream.
Hi everyone! this is a preview of my retelling of The 12 dancing princesses. Please comment below so I can know how others feel. I only have the first chapter written and if enough people like this I will post it:)
Thanks!
Giselle
