Missing

Queen Clarissa

I sit in my room while the maids do my hair. I relax when the soft hands of Marie and Lola touch my hair. The weight of this day pushes down on me. The black dress lays on my bed. I can't bare to look at it. Just the thought of the day brings tears to my eyes.
"Alright Princess time to put on the gown" Marie says helping me up. I stand up tall and turn to face her tears threatening to pour from my eyes at any moment. "Oh Princess don't cry. Sophie is still here" Lola said embracing me. "Yea but everyone else is gone!" I say the tears slowly pouring down my face. "Let's put on the dress then get Sophie" Marie says. We walk over to my bed and Marie and Lola begins putting the dress on. The corset is tight like always but today I barley feel it. I slip the black heals on as I exit my room. We walk to Sophie's bedroom and knock on the door. Instantly Sophie runs out of the room, dressed in her own black dress. We hug each other. Sophie wipes her eyes and pulls herself together. "Tomorrow will be better". Tomorrow. My coronation. I completely forgot about that.

"We are here today to mourn over the death of King Randolf, Queen Maria and Prince Jack" the priest says. I tune him out. Jack. My brother and best friend. He was supposed to be getting the crown I'm getting. He was 3 hours older then me. We would be celebrating our 15 birthdays in 2 days. Now we are celebrating only my birthday. Sophie is 8. "Princess Clarissa would you like to say a few words?" The priest asks me. I look at him. "Can Sophie come with?" I ask completely informally. "Yes". I grab Sophie's hand and we walk up to the graves of our family. I imagine that we are walking together in dasies like we used to. I look down and instantly start to cry. "We just wanted to say goodbye" I manage to choke out. Me and Sophie hug. We stay like that until the funeral is over. "Milady it is time to go home" I here a voice say. I look up and find Marie. I smile and drag Sophie along with me. I glance back to the graves. Tears threaten me but I push them back. Now it is time for me to be strong.

The next day
"Milady wake up its a big, big day!" I hear Marie say as she shakes me awake. "Ugh what time is it?" I ask. "Almost time we are going to be late!" Lola yells. I hear the swishing of a dress and drawers being pulled from their spots. "Late for what?" I ask. Duh! My coronation. "Umm your coronation your highness" Lola says. "You can still just call me Clary" I say as I rub my eyes getting for a long day. "Right" Lola mumbles under her breath.
Soon in am ready to be queen. Half my hair is up and the parts that aren't are in delicate curls. My first red dress poofs out at my waist. I feel like fire. "Ahh people will be talking about this dress for years!" Marie sighs. I giggle. I slip on the red flats and sigh. I open the door and there stands Sophie. "You look beautiful, Clary!" She yells. "Not as pretty as you" I say he's tiring to her dress. If is bubblegum pink and has poofy sleeves. "If I didn't know better I would say you are going to be queen" I say putting my hands on my hips. Sophie giggles. We walk down the hall. All the tension from the day before gone. We get to the massive doors leading into the grand-ballroom. "I'll see you later!" Sophie says running into the massive room. I take a peak into the room. I gasp. There are thousands of people. I start to get nervous. I wipe my hands on my dress. 'Dont sweat. You can't sweat' I tell myself but it doesnt help. I am realizing the importance of the day. I am going to be Queen. I can't. Not yet. "Whoa girl that dress is gorgeous" I hear someone say behind me. I smile. "Ronny that's because it's on a gorgeous girl" I hear another voice say. I turn around. "Ronny, Chelsea". Ronny and Chelsea are my lady in waiting. "Thank the lords that your here" I say relieved. They are really jumpy. "Why the happy faces?" I ask. "You don't know?" Ronny asked. "She doesn't!" Chelsea replied. "What am I not being told?" I ask putting my hands on my hips again. "They are going to announce who your going to be married to!" Ronny said. "Calm down I already knew that. Ronny your practically vibrating" I saw pushing down on her shoulders. Chelsea gasped. "It's time" she squealed and walked in. I suck in a deep breath. "You'll do fine" Ronny said walking in after Chelsea. I walk in and here a series of claps. I look around for any handsome princes but obviously I found more then one. I walk down the aisle. If it weren't for the red dress and the crown at the end of the aisle I would have felt like I was getting married. I got to the end and the clapping eased and eventually stopped. I stared. I didn't mean to but I just did. The crown it was so magnificent that I didn't realize the person had placed it on my head. "Behold Queen Clarissa of Amerilia" I here and I turn to face my people. And the clapping starts again. I smile. This crown is heavy. Now it was time to find out who I am to be married to. "And now we would like to present..." Hopefully it's a good looking prince not and iffy one. "Prince Drandrew of Garston". I gasp. I had a perfectly good picture of what he would look like and instead I get my childhood play mate, besides Jack. "You Majesty" I here the voice of Drandrew. "Prince Drandrew how pleasant to see you again" I say. I don't want to but it's protocol. He bows and I curtesy. My eyes scan him. He is handsome but not the perfect Prince I was expecting. I stood with Sophie and Drandrew until all guests left. When they were all gone which felt like eternity I say down and took off my shoes. "Clary! I can't believe it your a queen now!" Sophie said sitting down beside me. "Joy" I say rather sarcastically. "Now you will make speeches and wear even prettier gowns" Sophie said. "Yes and I will get to so much paper work" I saw even more sarcastically. "Umm excuse me but doesn't this place have to be ready for a ball in one hour?" Drandrew intrupted. I look up at him. "Yep. Come on Sophie" I say and we leave. "Why couldn't it be someone I didn't know?!" I yell as I flop down on my bed. "Oh now come on it was totally a given" Ronny said rolling her eyes. "Sophie back me up on this one" I look at Sophie "sorry sis but I could see it coming". Just then Chelsea burst through the door. "Get pretty he's coming up!" She yells. Instantly I sit up. We didn't even notice him standing in the door way as we frantically get pretty again. "Well now that will be unnessicary " he said. We all stop and giggle. "Women will I ever get them?" He said as he walks in and sits on a chair. I sit on the bed and Sophie sits beside me. Chelsea and Ronny remain standing. "So this is your room. A lot smaller then I expected" he said slightly flirtatiously. "He's never seen it!?" Chelsea burst. "No!" I snap back. "Anyways yes this is my room I thought it was a nice size" I say. "Ok" he says. I was expecting something more like 'well hopefully we have a much larger one' but that never came. Suddenly Sophie gasped. "Your Queen that means you get the Queens suite!" She yelled. "Only if I want it" I respond. "And honestly I don't want it changed. Ever" I say tears started to form. "Oh Clary you were doing so well don't cry now" Sophie say hugging me. I blink away the tears and say "I think I need some air". I move over to the balcony. I close the doors that are always open behind me and start to cry. My original plan was to stay a princess until I was married off and never have to be Queen if this kingdom but now. I here the door open behind me. "It's time for the ball, Clary". I turn around and there stood Drandrew. I wipe away my tears and nod. "How bad is my makeup?" I ask. He laughs "not bad at all".
We walk into the ball room and instantly there is clapping. My arm is interlinked with Drandrews and we make our way to the front with Sophie behind us and Chelsea and Ronny behind her. "May I present Queen Clarissa of Amerilia, Prince Drandrew of Garston, Princess Sophie of Amerilia and ladies in waiting Ronny Totalleme and Clelsea Randald" a man says. My new title. Queen Clarissa. I wasn't expecting that.
We danced and ate and danced and ate for the whole night and I was thankful for when it was over. "Now for bed!" I scream as I run down the halls to my room. I walked in and slammed the door behind me. My maids sat ready to do their job. "Undress me" I say my arms open. Going as fast as they could they undid the corset and I slip the gown off into a heap of the ground. I sighed and put on my nightgown. The silk is nice against my skin. Much nice then the fabric of my dress. I fall on my bed and instantly fall asleep.
The sleep started with a dream.
The dream started with Jack.