Absence Of The Good Prince

Chapter 11 || Story

It's been a couple of weeks, some of my wounds have heals, but most of them still needs to be taken care of.

The physical pain has left, but the emotional part of it stayed.

Now living in these four walls, is nothing but filled with fear, fear that he might take me down there again, fear that the next wounds I will get will be worse;

I am not allowed to leave my room anymore , and neither do I want to, the only time I see him now is at night, when he comes to satisfy his needs with me,

Sometimes if I am lucky, he just yells at me, or slaps me across my face, sometimes my luck isn't with me, and he beats me up, assaults me, deprives me of food and water and calls me names,

It's happened so many times in this week,that now, I am just numb to it, before i used to blame myself, but now, everything is numb;

It's like even though physical I am out of the cell in the basement, mentally I am still there.
I can still feel the cold concrete wall against my wounded back, and I can still feel the heavy chain around my ankle,

Life doesn't seem worth living anymore, me breathing has become a burden on me myself,
Me living had become a burden,

This is not the fairytale I have always been told I would have, it's no where even close to it,

Knock knock knock

I flinched at the sound of someone knocking on the door,

"Come in" i reply, while looking back at the window I was sitting beside,

A lady comes in, in her hand is a letter, " My lady, there has been a letter send from your castle for you"

My head snaps to look at the lady,
And I stand up and take the letter from her hands, " Your excused" I tell her in cold tone, she nods her head and leaves,

Holding the letter in hand I already feel anger boiling in side of me, it doesn't say who it's from, but I very well know who it is,

Just as I was about to open it, the door slams open, a shiver runs down my spine. He looked angry,

"What the fuck is in that letter!"he shouts while marching towards me,

"I-I don't know" I say, fears clear in my voice,

"Open it!"he orders me, my hands are trembling while I removed the wax seal,

Dear Catrina,

Your presence has been requested at the castle, for the funeral of, Maya Rose Mary, you will be expected at this funeral, by tomorrow,
Sincerely, Your Queen

I read the letter out to him, and he seems to have relaxed a little, after I am done reading, I look up at him,

"Ok, you shall go" he said, then grabs my face and digs his fingers into my face and says " But, if you dare tell anyone about what I did to you, you can consider your self as good as dead, am I clear?"

I nod, tears spill from my eyes,
"Good" He said, with rage in his eyes before he let's go of my face, and leaves?

I reread the letter four times,

Maya Rose Marry, who could that be?

I look over to the window, the previously clear sky was now filled with clouds, it looked like it was going to rain.

I jumped when I felt a tap on the shoulder,
" Are you ok, princess, I saw Prince Bryce leave your room, did he hurt you?" It was the 14 year old girl, she's been helping me with my wounds for the past week,

"Y-yeah I am fine" my voice slowly went to a whisper, she gesture for me to sit down on the bed, once I do, I take off my dress to expose the wounds on my back and front,

I felt her cleaning my wounds like always, and then wrap a long white cloth around my body, she also attended to some recent wounds that I had gotten from the assault last night;

I like always just stare blankly at a wall,she was on her knees cleaning the cuts and bruises on my thighs, when she looks up with a smile and says,

"Do you wanna hear a story?"

I look at her, with emotionless eyes, "If the story involves love, then I don't want to hear it" I say,

"No, it's more of a legend" she says,

"Then continued" I say ,

" In the forest behind the castle, there is a water fall, there's a path that even goes to it as well, people say that mermaids live there"
She explains the story,

"Mermaid?," I ask,

"Yes mermaids, they are half human half fish, some are said to be friendly but most are not to be messed with"

I hmm in response, and I suddenly found myself deep in thought," How deep do you think the water is over there?"I question,

"I've been there once, and it's very deep even the water fall it's self is very tall," she says,

"How deadly do you think it is, if you jump from the top of it?" I ask in a daze,

"Princess" she looks at me with concern, ", why are you even asking that question?"

"Just curious, now answer my question"I asked looking out the window,

"Well," She hesitates a bit, "If you jump from the top, and you don't know how to swim, then it can be very dangerous, deadly even, if you hit your head on one of those rocks at the bottom"

I nod my head,

" I have to go now, take care princess," she says, and quickly leaves my room, seems like my word freaked her out a little, once she leaves, I go over to the window, that shows the forest that lies behind the castle,
"Water fall, huh?" I mumbled to my self,

         Would people care if I disappeared?

Again sorry for the small chapter, I was again too busy 😖, and I know this chapter may seem like a filler but all these chapter have information that you should not miss,

So don't skip chapters