Be My Princess: ~2:51~

Chapter 1: Facade

Brienna

There she stood with such a well practiced posture, sword in hand. She was against her long held friend in a heated sword battle. Her brilliant blue eye shone as she looked at her with stern eyes waiting for her to make a move as she bore into Riri--her nickname for Alluriana- with her sword in her right and while her left arm was in her back.

"Humph!" Riri came charging in with her sword and swung it to cut Brienna's right arm but she was quick in instincts. 'You're a million years early to be able to defeat me.' With a quick step to the back, Brienna twisted her sword with Riri's.

"Looks like I won again." Brienna declared when she heard a loud clang. Riri looked down and sighed. This had been her ...... she had lost track of how many times she lost to her from swordsmanship but that was what she excel at amongst the rest of the weapon in the weaponry room.

"Practice is over." Brienna sheath her sword back to her scabbard and turned to a door in Riri's private training room. This room just so happened to be an extra room in the Michel's palace and it was supposed to be the smallest ballroom but they rarely used it so it turned into a private training room only for Riri to enter or anyone with her permission.

Alluriana Michel, also known as Riri, she is the great granddaughter of Lord Michel and the only heir to the throne. Long ago she ran away from the palace due to pressure and high expectations of her but Brienna coaxed her to go back. Now, Riri felt indebted to her and after that faithful day, they always met up and Brie would always teach her self defense because she over heard the mafia that they will kill them and the rest of the royals. Thus resulting in making Brie changing her identity and leaving the mafia to a secret room in the very palace of Nobel Michel that only Riri knew about.

Brienna opened the wooden door and stepped inside the shower room to wash off any sweat, even though she hardly did. She stripped all the way down and stepped into a shower and opened the water. Warm hot water came running out of it smoothly as she soaked her dirty blonde hair after taking off her disguise which consist of a pair of brown contact lens and a matching wig.

"Are you ever tried of wearing a wig and colored lenses when it is not needed?" Riri says as she got into a shower next to Brie. "You've been going on for years they would not find you." It was true, the mafia wouldn't find her because back then she only had brown hair but as she got older blonde started to show.

'Maybe she's right.' Seventeen years. It had been seventeen years since she ran away from the mafia and she would be completely unrecognizable to them but, you many never know if there had been a spy this whole time looking at her as she grew older.

"I'll help you with the your background and other important information." 'But is this even a good decision?' She scrubbed her long hair with the gardenia tahitensis extract in the shampoo before applying the conditioner. 'Once I agree there is no turning back.' Brie knew that Riri was only concern for her since she didn't get the chance to explore freely to the outside world without putting on that fake facade of hers. Always smiling and being happy, the total opposite of how she was while in the mafia of course. It was after all, apart of the disguise but now, Riri was going to help her to drop the whole thing.

"But what will I get out of this?" Brie said as she rubbed the body wash on her milky white skin. But it was true. What will she get from this? It might have sounded cruel sure but still, she doesn't have the time to be herself and explore the world. She has studying to do. She needed to learn more of this cruel world.

"I'll give you time to think of it."

~*~

'Give me time to think of it?' Brie looked out of the long window of the library to see cars after cars stopping by. Gorgeously dresses noblemen and women made their way up the long red carpeted stairs of Nobel Michel indicating that there would be a ball tonight but this time it was different. They wore masks.

'How troublesome.' She thought as she tried her best with what would happen if the mafia actually found out about her existence. Brie turned around and was about to leave until golden hair made her stop. 'Brother.' Oh how long it had been since she was kidnapped from the chateau. If only Riri knew then maybe, just maybe she could have been in Phillip as the princess once again but, she didn't know about that nor does Riri know about Brie's past. She was a complete mystery to her.

'If I actually agreed then maybe I could be with you again.' Riri was deep in thought until she finally made a decision. "Looks lime you won Riri." She whispered before disappearing into the shadows.