Tales Untold

Forbidden Love

The castle was quiet, seeing how it was the dead of night. Cinder had been working all day and her feet ached dreadfully. There was only one thing that Cinder wanted to do that moment, and it was to go to her shared servant's chamber and lay upon her cot stuffed with straw. Nothing sounded better to her in that moment.

Cinder walked through the corridors of the castle, humming lightly to herself. She was bored as heck, and the only thing she had to distract herself with was her tiredness. Cinder tried to be as quiet and graceful as she could, not wanting to wake anyone. There was only one problem: Cinder was not graceful in the slightest.

Seeing how Cinder was a terrible clutz, it was no surprise when she slammed into a very solid force, and fell to the ground. "I'm so sorry," Cinder said, not daring to glance up and see who she had crashed into. She prayed to every star above that it was not a lunar guard. They would surely have her killed in an instant.

A laugh came from above Cinder, and a few seconds later she was being hauled to her feet and into an embrace. "Cinder!" exclaimed as voice that Cinder knew all too well. Cinder melted into the embrace, breathing in the scent of Prince Kaito, the Crown Prince of the Eastern Commonwealth.

"Long time, no see," Kai whispered into Cinder's ear, causing her to laugh. They had seen each other only mere hours before at dinner, though it felt like an eternity. They had not been allowed to talk to each other then though, seeing how Kai was a Prince, betrothed to Queen Levana of Luna, and Cinder was just a servant.

Their very talking to each other could result in Cinder being killed, and possibly ruining the future alliance that the Commonwealth was trying to set up with Luna. It was extremely dangerous for the two to be together, but that had never stopped them.

Everything had started when they were young. About twelve to be precise. Cinder had just come to work at the castle, after being sold like a piece of property to pay off her step family's debt. The same had happened with Cinder's real family, when she had been sold to the Lihn's to pay off their own debt. Cinder had only ever been considered property, nothing more.

It had only been a week since Cinder had come to work at the castle, when she stumbled upon a broken boy in the stables. The boy was crying, and Cinder comforted him. He told her how he was just a piece in a game. How his parents used him for nothing but gain. Cinder had told him her story, and how she understood him, not realizing that he was the Prince, and had just been married off to Queen Levana.

After that first meeting, the two became friends. Eventually Cinder found out that Kai was actually a Prince, and not some random boy, though that did nothing to affect their friendship. They had met once a week for six years ever since that fateful day in the stables, though now the two had become more than friends.

When the pair were sixteen, they expressed their feelings for each other. They loved each other, though their love was illegal. They could never, not in a thousand years, end up together. Kai and Cinder were on opposite levels of the social scale, and their love was more forbidden than almost anything else. That didn't stop them tough.

Cinder tilted her head up, looking into Kai's eyes. She felt more than relief at seeing him, having feared meeting a lunar guard. They were always more than happy to afflict pain on the lower class. Lunar guards were a nightmare for Cinder, especially with the upcoming wedding.

Though the two loved each other with a passion that no other loves could claim, it had done nothing to stop Kai's marriage. The wedding was fast approaching, and Cinder's heart ached at the very thought of Kai being with another girl. They had never told anyone about their love for each other, and now there was nothing they could do. Their love was forbidden after all.