The Curse Of Fate

Short Lived Love

My mother always kept many secrets, as did I, many she kept to herself. Very few she shared with me, but the few she did left me in nothing but fear.

"Never trust a man because all they do is cause pain, pain no one should ever have to feel. Whether they are evil or good they are still people. Beware of people in love for they are under the spell of the heart and lastly never fall in love. Because falling is not worth it if there is no guarantee you'll ever see your feet hold you back up the same again"

These were my warnings, things she told me to save me from what she called the "cruel world". She always told me that the world was unfair and no matter how hard you try it will overlook your injustice with a simple glare.

As a child and young woman I took her warning as nothing short of a written prophecy. Heeding her every warning with the fear of feeling the pain of love and it's unfair treatment. But now I know.

I know how unfair the world truly is. With its elites it holds so high and the people struggling to barely get by, thrown even harder challenges than the rest. I know that love is not what she made it out to be.

She made love out to sound disastrous, something that should be avoided at all cost and spared by the lucky. But now I know she was wrong, Love was something that came rushing in at the absolute worst moment in life. Violating your life without any permission and taking over your every thought. Making you want to spend every waking moment next to them and making it a nightmare to picture your life without them.

Manipulated by their every touch and just their presence makes you weak and your body fill with butterflies.

She was right about one thing, heartbreak. What she described was the exact words to describe the exact pain I felt in that moment, that I didn't have the will to describe. Something I never want to experience again but I rather feel that than deprive myself of the person my heart now beats for.

And as I arrive on horseback to Nathaniel's palace and I am stopped by a knight guarding the entrance. "Hello sir" I greet the knight as his cold gaze doesn't move the slightest.

"What's your business here?" The knight ask as I clear my throat and stand up straight.

"I'm here to see Prince William, I'm Daniella Roberts" I tell the knight as he nods.

"And I'm a knight, no entrance!" The knight says angrily as I nod and smirk at my new found idea to get into the castle as I jump off the horse and force myself to climb the brick wall and suddenly loose my footing as I fall over the fence and land in a pile of bushes.

"KNIGHTS!!" I hear a familiar voice yells as I stand up with my hands in the air to see Nathaniel in front of me.

"Please Nathaniel, hear me out?" I beg him as he draws the knights back and I walk closer to him as I take a deep breath and prepare to let my emotions flow, held back for to long. "I made a mistake and I need you to realize that. I was afraid and it might be hard for you to understand but to me, its nothing short of frightening" I say as he nods and I find it hard to pinpoint whats on his mind. And for the first time since we got here I feel scared of the chance of denial.

"It took me so long to realize what you were to me. After coming up with excuse after excuse to bring myself down so I could feel safe and not the slightest bit vulnerable I feel it now. Because everyday that's gone by without you by my side has been put me in the worst possible pain I could have ever imagined. I used to fear heartbreak and love but now I don't know what to fear anymore because every minute I spend without you breaks my heart into pieces. Because Nathaniel Knight I lov-"I say as I'm cut off by none other than Nathaniel's lips on my own, something I thought I'd never feel again as my heart felt so broken a moment ago and the simple thought of Nathaniel brought what seemed like endless rage but now, now the thought of him brought what seemed to be my light at the end of the tunnel, him.