THE RED ROSE PRINCE

The secret revealed... (continues)

He freed us from this long lasting hug and gave a deep sigh.
" You know, she was my everything. I loved her to that an extent that I forgot everything.
I still remember the day she deceived me."
He clenched his fist remembering that day.
For her my love was a game.
She played with my heart.
Everyone told me that she will never be with a poverty stricken boy like me. But I was a foolish person that I didn't listen to them."
I was surprised to know that he was a poor guy when he was living.
" but you are a Prince and princes are not poor. "
"I was born in the year 1905 the time when India was under British rule. My father worked in print media of British newspapers. While working he witnessed the plight of indians and got moved by the poor conditions of Indians under British rule. So he started working with the Indian revolutionaries at that time. But the Britishers got infuriated by his this decision and one night while returning from the meeting of revolutionaries he was shot dead by British officials.
After his death we were not given any help from British media office. We got trapped in the net of poverty. My father died when I was only 7 years old and my brother was 5 years old. My mother raised us in these conditions but never did she let us feel that we were poor.
When I turned 17 years old. I met Anneliese. I still remember, I was loitering on the roads and it was raining heavily. Suddenly a girl came running towards me and we both fell on the roads. Her wet hairs touching my face and her green eyes wanted me to drown in them. It was love at first sight.
After coming to my senses I realized that she was in danger. Some goons were behind her.
I was not so strong at that time to face the goons so I took her to my home where she was safe. She spent few days in our home and we both fell in love. Soon her father came to take her. And then I came to know that she was the daughter of British official of great power who sent the goons behind the bar.
I thought that my money status would not matter.and so I loved her with all my heart. I even worked day and night in order to give her a good future with me. But it was all in vain.
Once I was walking through the forest to the nearby hill for some work as that forest was a shortcut to the hill...."
He gritted his teeth and clenched his hands. I kept my hands on his shoulder to calm him down.
" I couldn't believe what I saw there. She was there with a man kissing him and...."
" and what...?"
"I shouted on her which startled her. Then she composed herself and said something which I had never expected.
She said that she would rather die than spend a life with a poor boy like me who could not give him anything. She was new at that place and wanted someone to make her familiar with this new place so she used me like a dustbin. She said that she was the beauty and this beauty will never live with the beast like me.
I was nothing but just a dustbin for her.
My mother never liked her because of that I used to fight with her.
I felted guilty for always fighting with everyone.
So I promised that her beauty killed me today so I will not let any beauty live in this place in peace. I burnt my self.
That was the last day of Edwin and the first day of the prince of darkness. "