Known Strangers

Prologue

*Authors Note* : Just wanted to give you an Idea of what the Castle in Arphaxad looks like. So above 👆 is the picture of the castle. With that being said. Enjoy.....

Bell's POV

  I currently stand on the roof top of my home -

Wait... Scratch that. It's no longer a home. Rephrase...

I currently stand on the roof top of the castle, starring at the stormy, dark sky. Thunder roaring loudly, lightning flashing, and it was just morning... This can only mean one thing.

Krell's Mad

Oh no, this is not good, not good at all, what have I done.
I inhaled deeply, bracing myself for what's coming my way.
I bent down and opened a door on the floor of the roof that leads to my room and I jumped inside landing perfectly on my feet.

I braced myself to run at full speed, to run out of my room, out of the castle, out of Arphaxad.

Okay........... GO!

No, no no no, wait, wait, wait....
I can't run in these shoes, and this long heavy dress and my hair like this.

So I quickly took off my shoes, tied my hair into a bun at the top of my head. Then I paused starring at my dress

Sorry beautiful dress

I tore off the outer part of the long dress, leaving the inner short part of the dress.
My life is more important than a dress right now.

Okay, I'm ready now... I inhaled deeply..... Again...

I can't believe I'm about to do this, this is so bad..

I walked towards the door of my room with my heart beating furiously, I opened the door with shaky hands slowly and looked outside at the hallway, it was long and quiet, no one in sight, not the guards, not the Knights.. none. Thunder was still cracking though.

Okay..... GO!

I took off as fast as I can, running towards the exit. It will take 23 minutes to get to the exit, because this castle is really enormous but it doesn't matter, I just have to get as far away as possible from my twin sister Krell. Or else....
She could kill me
Not even ' could ', she would definitely kill me.

Okay, I know you guys are confused... You're like...
What?? Why does her twin sister want to kill her?? Why is she in a castle? What's going on??

Well this is it.
For all the 17 years of my life, I've lived under the shadows of my twin sister Krell. She has always been the better twin, the more powerful twin, the smarter twin, the better princess, the older twin, the more beautiful twin -I mean, come on- the more beautiful twin?? Okay there's something about the twins, triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets and so on in Arphaxad. They look exactly alike, the same height, same weight, same hair. Just like you having another you. So the only way to differentiate us is by our hair, I keep mine straight and hers curly. So in judging the more beautiful twin is out.

Krell always got what she wanted, fame, attention, good grades. My crush Gonanz is her boyfriend. My parents even preferred her to me, telling her that she'll be the next ruler of Arphaxad. But now.... They're dead. Father and Mother are dead. The King and queen are dead.
It's really their death that led to this.

So my parents both died this morning, and we were about to crown Krell as the next ruler, our new Queen, but NO! I couldn't let that happen. Well it was destined to happen but NO!
In Arphaxad, we are named according to our destinies.