A book of different peraya stories :
H1: Beauty and the sleeping prince (COMPLETE)
H2: The Lion Prince and the Pauper (COMPLETE)
H3: Thinking about you (COMPLETE)
H4: Unforeseen wedding (COMPLETE)
H5: Timeless Love (COMPLETE)
H6: Three loves (COMPL...
A long time ago, in a distant country whose name has already been forgotten, lived a prince who was loved by all his people and especially by his father. The young and handsome King Leonel.
The young man was happy, even after losing his beloved mother during last winter. However, everything changed when his father, thinking that the young prince needed a new mother and above all, in that he was still young and needed a new woman by his side, decided to remarry with a widow of the nobility who already had two beautiful daughters, Arabella and Linna.
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Both young people were happy and beautiful, not only inside but also on the outside, but his mother was a woman who not only ambitioned the title of queen, but also wanted another title:
the most beautiful person in the country
Which corresponded to the winner of the annual contest that was held every year at the palace gardens.
- "This year one of you must win the title, have you understood?" - said the queen as she watched how the dressmaker was making the latest changes in the dresses that her daughters were going to wear to the contest.
Arabella, who was standing in the middle of the room like her little sister, endured the finishing touches to her pink dress with laces and shinning gems, while trying that no one notice the boredom and the uneasiness that came from having to show up again in a beauty contest.
Since they were little, their mother had inscribed them in each and every one of them, willing to demonstrate that the women of her family, and especially her daughters, were the most beautiful in the world and that no one could ever eclipse them.
- "I doubt that it will happen that easily.." - said Arabella - "as I understand the first prize of the contest is going to be for a young man named Krist who lives on the edge of the forest.
The queen, looking up from the fashion magazine she was discussing with the dressmaker, frowned without understanding what the young woman was talking about.
- "Krist?" - he asked - "but that's boy's name ..."
Linna laughed softly. It was obvious that his mother, once again, had not read the conditions and requirements of the contest.
- "Mother, any woman or man that wants to subscribe to it can enter without a problem. After all, it's about choosing the most beautiful person in the country. "
Nessa was so surprised. It was the first time she heard of a beauty pageant in which they judged both sexes equally and at the same time.
However, she was not going to let that Krist complicate her plans...
So next day, at sunrise, the queen decided to leave the castle disguised as a peasant and check, by herself, who was that young man who dared to sign up to a beauty contest and that also seemed to be the favorite to win.
The streets were deserted, it was still too early for the locals to start opening their shops and businesses. Because of that the queen, with ease and without anyone seeing her, crossed the center of the town and went through the clock arch on the street that led to the forest.
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Her steps, quick and light, brought her closer to the last house in the area, the closest one to the edge of the trees. It was then that she heard a melodious voice humming a child's song. Following the sweet melody, the queen took a path that led to a clearing in which a young man, who did not appear to be more than sixteen years old, picked medicinal herbs and fruits from the nearest bushes, being very careful not to prick himself with the thorns.
The boy wore a white sweatshirt with the hood over his head, however that did not prevent the queen to see the characteristics of the young man. His skin clear as snow and black hair like ebony, his deep eyes that reflected the innocence of youth and lips red, fleshy and soft, inviting to be kissed.
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The queen paled as anger and jealousy began to take over her. The young man was truly beautiful.....
But that was not going to stop her. No way.
She was going to win that contest like any other that her family has entered before. It was not going to be the first failure of the family, much less after three generations of winners.
She would do what She had to do and nothing and nobody would be able to stop her.
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A little note:
Here is the first part of the new story.
What do you think of it? Should I continue writing it?
