Prelude

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Once upon a time, in a land about 4 thousand miles away from Italy lived a man, his wife, and their 6 sons. The man longed for a daughter and the wife wanted anything but.

For right now, our story starts in the beautiful country of Italy as a baby girl is coming into the world. She has dazzling blue eyes and reddish brown hair that curls around her little head.
The king and the queen beamed as their daughters was christened in front of all their friends and family.
"She's beautiful, Annie!" Nikki, The queen of England, exclaimed as she held her friend's new born baby. "Tom, darling, come here." She called to her eldest son, at the age of five, he walked over with a little box in his hand.
"I made this for her." The young boy smiled as he handed the little hand made bracelet to the mother as both Queens shared a knowing glance.

6 years pass and the young princess is as bright and as beautiful as she was when she was born.
"Tommy! Come on!" The little redhead giggled as she grabbed her bestfriends hand and ran through the labyrinth of trees to their secret spot. "We have to hide!"
"Sh sh! I know, but we have to be quiet or they'll find us." The boy laughed as a rustle sounded in the bushes. "Hey, happy early birthday."
"Thanks, King." She beamed as he pulled out a little box. "You didn't have to."
"You're my bestfriend, of course I did. And anyway, I wanted to." He smiled softly as she opened the beautiful box to reveal two lockets.

" He smiled softly as she opened the beautiful box to reveal two lockets

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"One for you and one for me." He said as she opened it to reveal a picture of them last Christmas. The tree was big with snow dusting it. It was our tree. Every year we'd go to that tree to give the gifts we got each other. Somehow, our moms found out and they took pictures without us knowing until the last picture. I was in front of Tom and he had his arms wrapped around the front of me. I was in my little red Christmas dress and he was in his favorite red and green Christmas suit.
His locket had the same picture, but his had the sun on it and said Alice on the inside, and mine had the moon and said Tom.
I hugged him tight before a rustle was heard in the bushes behind us.
"Come on, Queenie. Let's go back."
"Huh?" She asked before she saw a pair a dark eyes.
"Run!" The young prince exclaimed as men in black masks jumped out at them.
"Tom!" The small girl cried out as she tried to keep up with the older boy.
"Keep running!" He called as he pushed her to keep up but she stumbled and fell.
"Go! Get help!" She cried out as he stopped. "Go!" She yelled again as he tried going back to her but turned around and ran to find their parents.
"Mom! Dad! Help! Allie-! Bad guys!" He sobbed as the guards were called. Many kingdoms searched for the beautiful little girl, but to no avail. The men that took the beloved princess were never found.

The kingdoms were heartbroken for the loss of their kindhearted princess.

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