BEROYALED

THIS IS MY STORY

SOME MAY SAY THIS IS way too much like a fairytale. I also think that way myself. But ironically, most of the people I meet would always say they wish they had a life like mine which I could never fully understand. It is human nature that we want what we don't have—there's that. But if that's the case then are we supposed to be chasing things we want just for the sole reason that we want it and ignoring the things we already have? I've always heard people telling me I have everything. I hear it from gossip girls on the street; I read it on newspapers, magazines, and even textbooks. Do I really have everything? I live in a palace—a huge palace but no one seems to be there. I wear glamorous dresses even if I'm just going to eat lunch—a meal that I usually share no one with.

I don't understand myself either. Perhaps I'm just too overwhelmed by the responsibility that's already placed on my head before I was even born. Sure, it's not as big a responsibility as my little brother Frederick who just graduated Elementary School. But I'm not my brother. We are siblings but he's far too great compared to me. He's confident, smart and very capable of becoming King. Although for now he might still be childish and immature and most of all, unnecessarily arrogant, I am very sure that Derick can be a brilliant King who'll run this country next.

I guess saying my brother will be the next King is a hint enough about who I really am. I don't want to elaborate much more, but whatever you are thinking right now is most probably true. Yes, I am a Princess born of Royal Blood and all those fairytale-like stars twinkling and sparkling dust or whatever. It's all too cliché and actually dull than what it looks like. Just like my story. It's a fairytale that's already been told a million times. But I'd like to think that because it's too common then it's just ordinary. As ordinary as any story of any person I meet whenever I escape from the palace and walk the streets alone in disguise. I like to think people could relate to me somehow and that I could relate to them as well. This is no Princess diaries. I don't want it to sound anything like Royal at all. It's just another story that you might already have heard. Just another romance, or love triangle. Just another story of a girl trying to find herself by herself. A story any ordinary girl could have.

So let me introduce myself first.

My name is Andrea, or as I prefer, just simply Drei. Just another girl you'd meet and this is my story.