Runaway Royal

Chapter 1

"I don't wish wish to continue my lessons, Sir Connor." Princess Katherine said to her teacher. Katherine had been adopted into the royal family as a baby. For most this could only be a dream, especially an orphan; but not Katherine. All she ever dreamed of was being normal. Wearing jeans instead of dresses, privacy instead of constantly being waited on, and most of all the ability to walk into a room and not have every living soul bow. But even above that she absolutely hated the lessons.

"Attitude, your highness, attitude." she had had an attitude with her language teacher. She was mocking his proper grammar, she mostly spoke in the typical, less annoying slang used by the commoners. "A princess never smarts off, nor does she combine words. such as 'don't'.".

"Whatever." she replied and walked into her room, slamming the door behind her. She knew he wouldn't follow, they always gave up.

She kicked off her powder pink, six-inch heels, changed out of her giant pink, bedazzled dress, threw on the only comfortable thing in her closet, her nightgown, and plopped onto her bed(which was also powder pink. She hated the color but that was all they gave her. They made it her signature. Pink was to Katherine as green was to grass.

"Finally, some peace and quiet" Katherine mumbled to herself. She grabbed her outdated MP3 player and stuck in her headphones. Music was the only positive thing about being a royal, because their island kingdom of Zaria was so remote that the few electronics they received were always old, but the music is always up to date. Music was always her way to escape the royal life and enter her own world. Where most are on top of their world she loves to be a part of the common people. She can laugh and mess around without following the castle rules. She can even dream of meeting a guy for herself instead of being forced into marriage as soon as she is of age.

Prince Thomas lll was from another kingdom that Katherine didn't even bother remembering the name of. Her marriage would seal the truce between the countries. Where he was head over heals for her, she couldn't care less about him. He was always trying to win her love but in the fifteen years she had been a royal she had never gained any interest in him. Even as handsome and charming as he was, the only time she would pay any attention to him was in public where she was forced to act as though he was the love of her life. It killed Thomas to know that those times were all an act, that deep down she didn't care for him. But that didn't matter to Katherine.

Now that her lessons were over, Katherine got tired from her slight tantrum. She lied down for a nap when she finally had an idea. As she thought about how much she hated her life and how much she wanted to be normal she realized how simple it would be to...runaway.

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