Rittenhouse Royalty

Chapter One

Rittenhouse Royalty

Chapter 1: Rittenhouse

Rittenhouse was a large kingdom ruled by the Cahill family. The kingdom gave the outward appearance of being happy and peaceful but underneath that mask was a deep fear that ran through all the the citizens. Those ruling over Rittenhouse controlled every aspect of the kingdom not allowing its people any say in how things are run nor in their lives at all. If anyone were to stand out or speak up against Rittenhouse in any way then very bad things would happen to them or their loved ones. At the center of all of this were the Queen and King; the most tyrannical of leaders the world had ever seen. Queen Carolyna was even more awful than her husband King Benjamin though few knew just how cruel she could truly be.

Then one day Queen Carolyna gave birth to an heir. A beautiful baby girl with a head full of dark curls and the deepest brown eyes so full of love. Being born at daybreak the Queen decided to name the princess Lucelia meaning Heavenly light. The people of Rittenhouse hoped and prayed that the birth of the princess would often their Queen and King and make living there a bit more peaceful. The townspeople hoped that the princess would grow up seeing how terrible her parents treated the people and would learn to be nothing like that. They hoped they could help morph her into an ally who would protect them when time came for her to take the throne. However, they would soon find that would not be the case for the princess would never be allowed to leave the palace grounds and never get to meet her people.

Thankfully for Lucelia one of her mothers ladies in waiting had a daughter a few years older than the princess herself named JIya, who would soon become the princesses most dear and closest friend and companion . Lucelia and Jiya became inseparable practically from the moment the princess could walk. the girls never being able to say the others name properly at such a young age preferred to call each other Lucy and Iya. When Lucy turned five her mother gave her a beautiful white Siberian Husky with the bluest of eyes named Amelia in the hopes that she would want to spend more time with the puppy than with her commoner friend Jiya. This plan, however, did not work as the girls would just carry 'Amy' around and take her on all of their adventures. The three of them were rarely found without each other.

Through the years Lucy grew up independent and beautiful, even if she was a bit wild at times. Carolyna and Benjamin grew more and more exasperated with her as the years went on. every week Lucy and Jiya were brought before the queen and king after another failed attempt at sneaking out of the palace. Her parents, not only worried about her safety, also worried she would grow too independent and they would not be able to control her in the ways the had planned. Carolyna has had Lucys future planned long before she ever even became Queen. You see when Carolyna was young she grew up with her best friend, Emma, in the kingdom of Caponeia, where King Gabriele Capone was her father. Knowing that her brother Alphonse (Al) would inherit the throne Carolyna and Emma made plans to take over the neighboring kingdoms of Rittenhouse and Masonia.

Benjamin took to Carolyna immediately, thought she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. They were married within months of having met each other. Ben then took his sweet and beautiful Carol back to Rittenhouse along with her best friend Emma, whom Carolyna just couldn't live without. Getting Emma settled over in Masonia would prove a bit more complicated as King Asher was already married and had a young son named Garcia. Then Queen Maria of Masonia died due to complications with her second pregnancy. After that it was easy for Benjamin and Carolyna to convince Asher that his kingdom and his son need a queen and that Emma would be perfectt. Everything was going just as planned especially when both women came with child around the same time. Their children Luceilia and Wyatt being born within two months of each other (Wyatt being the older of the two). There was much discussion and planning on the part of the four parents as to their children futures. the mothers wanting Wyatt and Lucy to marry seeing as Garcia wasn't part of their original plan. However, King Asher was adamant about Garcia being the next king. Therefore it only made sense that in order to unite the two kingdoms permanently Lucy must marry Garcia even if he was 10 years her senior and would have to wait until she came of age to marry.

Carolyna reluctantly agreed but demanded that the wedding would not take place until after Lucy had turned 21. She wanted as much time as possible to train and coach Lucy on the way of the world and the ways they wanted things to be. In other words, Queen Carolyna wanted as much time as possible to completely brainwash her daughter into doing her biding. They all agreed to the Queens demands and agreed that Lucy would not know of her impending marriage until she turned 21. They then spent their summers rotating which kingdom they would stay at that summer allowing the children to play and get ton know one another in the hopes that Garcia and Lucy would learn to possibly even love each other making the news of their engagement that much easier.

All of that stopped after the summer Lucy turned 10. She and Wyatt were growing closer every summer and Garcia was getting jealous that his future wife would rather play with his baby brother than fawn all over him. So the parents agreed that it was best if the children did not see each other again until it was time for the engagements to be announced. After a very tearful goodbye between Lucy and Wyatt the Cahills returned home to Rittenhouse where they would remain for the next 11 years.