Grace and Olympia (lesbian story)

The secret is out

Hearing that made me almost faint into my mother's arms. Telling my parents had been a hard enough decision. Telling the entire kingdom hadn't even ever crossed my mind. The royal family would lose all the respect of the people.  My mother seemed to have put herself together and started talking again.
"This is a time of crisis, and we will need you to put away your childish fantasies and focus on the wellbeing of your family for once in your life" Even though I knew that was how she felt towards me, hearing it out loud was like getting slapped onto reality. She would never truly accept me for who I was. She continued.
"We will contact one of our allies from over-seas in hope that this horrendous rumor isn't of their knowledge yet, and will arrange a marriage for you immediately. Your first act after the wedding will be to officially deny all this gossip. This way everyone will forget this and you will keep living your normal life. Do you understand what you have to do?" After that I just remember running to my room and crying, crying so much that I thought I would never do anything else besides crying for the rest of my life. In the morning my eyes were swollen and my throat hurt like hell, but I got up, dressed and had breakfast, ignoring the questioning looks from my mother. I had decided that there was nothing I could do about any of this and that it would be better to just accept my faith with dignity. After three days, a letter came saying that the king and the queen were excited for the new alliance that would be formed through the marriage and would be pleased to send the successor to the throne to our kingdom so that our wedding could be preformed. That took away any hope I had left of my future, this was it and nothing I said or did could ever change that.
The next week was a chaos from which I can barely remember anything. The castle was all decorated and prepared for the arrival of the prince. I had to try on about a dozen of dresses before my mother found one that she liked. And I spent every spare moment in my room, mourning the life of freedom I was about to lose.