*Old Work* I wrote this when I was 13, bear in mind. Please go check out some of my newer stories on my page. Cypress Ramirez is a six. She works as a maid in a seamstress shop. She loves to sing, play music, dance, and draw. She doesn't want to enter the selection because she thinks the crown prince Adrian is a snob, stuck-up, and an obnoxious asshole. She doesn't believe in fate, or the one. Her family all work to keep themselves afloat, but just barely scrape by. Cypress is the second oldest, but became the oldest when her sister Katelyn married. She enters the selection to help her family after her younger brother Aaron gets sick and is diagnosed with leukemia. When she gets to the palace, she starts to fall deeper all the while surviving rebel attacks and rude bitches. Cypress starts as a six, but once she ends, she will never be the same. *Some of the characters and the plot I own, but some of the characters and plot go to Kiera Cass*