The Selection Series FanFiction - Eadlyn's Family, 20 Years Later - The Princess

The Selection Series - Eadlyn's Daughter Lillian - Chapter 1

 My name is Princess Lillian Koskinen, and I am a princess of Illea. But I feel as if almost no one in Illea actually knows I exist.

I am not the heir. Instead, my sister is, Princess Kerrtu. I don't blame her for being the heir, since she would be the best queen ever. She's smart, she is stunning, she is beautiful, and she is very loved by the people of Illea. Our only issue is, is that Kerrtu doesn't want to be queen at all. The entire family and advisors fight about it all the time. Today happens to be one of those days.

We were crowded in a conference room, with my entire family and a couple of advisors, discussing Kerrtu being the queen.

"I just don't want to be a queen! I don't see what is the point to wearing dresses for the rest of my life. Besides, I don't want to rule the country, which would make me a terrible ruler if I didn't want to do it. I know that Mom and Grandma and so on made amazing queens, but I don't want to. I got born into something that I don't want to do, and I don't even get a say in what I get to do with the rest of my life?" said Kerrtu.

"Kerr, the people of our country love you and trust you more then any other ruler that has ruled before. Can't you at least give it a go?" My mother said.

My mother, Eadlyn, is the queen of Illea, and she is planning to retire. She's been the title for almost 20 years, which is normally how long people hold the title these days, and Kerrtu has been dreading every single moment leading to her being queen.

"I could just be queen and then say that the eligible heir after me does not have to be the ruler if they don't want to. Because, you certainly did that with me when I was born." Kerrtu sarcastically said.

Every single person in the room rolled their eyes.

"Maybe I could be the king! I would give everybody candy!" My brother Noah said. My brother is the youngest out of all of the 3 children. My mom says he reminds her of Uncle Osten, who is my mom's youngest brother also. Uncle Osten definitely agrees with my mom.

"Noah, we plan to retire soon, and you're 9 years old!" said my dad.

Noah shrugged it off like it was completely reasonable for a 9 year old boy to rule an entire country.

My mom turned to me. "Lillian, you're the only person here who hasn't talked yet. Do you know what we should do?"

I sat there, quietly, trying to come up with something to say.

"She's too shy to give her own opinion." Sir Schmidt said. I never really liked him, but I didn't talk to him too much. But I knew what he said was true, I really was too shy to say anything, even in front of my own family. I gave him a look to let him know that his time to abruptly speak is over, in the nicest way possible. I hated to be mean to anyone, even if they already were to me.

"I guess I agree with Kerrtu." I said. I heard her let out a breath, enjoying someone at least being on her side. "To some extent." I say, and Kerrtu turns her eyes to me sharply.

"I think what we should really focus on is how far behind we are socially. Look at the German Federation, they had a son who decided not to be a king, and he let his younger brother take his place. And North Africa completely got rid of the royal family when it got too much of a hassle. I'm not suggesting that we go that far, but Kerrtu wouldn't make a good queen if she wasn't willing to put her best effort into it." I say.

Kerrtu was smiling now, and the rest of my family was going into consideration, but the advisors still did not look very sold.

I continue. "However, we cannot move on as a royal family if we do not have another ruler. We need an eligible ruler that can easily do the work without any complaints."