This is not a happy story, this is not a sad story, it is neither a epic story full of battles and blood and conflicts, it is just a story, just life in the beautiful moments but also in the hard ones. I am not going to use the real name, because this is a true story and it is not my place or right to talk about it. But I have to, because that story taught me so much, about happiness and sorrow, love and lost, about life. It started 17 years ago, during a trip between two royals families. It was just a formal meeting, the old house of Great Britain invited their greatest ally just to inforce their relationship with the newer United States of America royal family. This story is about one of their member, the grand daughter of the USA queen, third in line for the throne, just turn 17. A discret, intelligent girl, not ugly but not stunning either. A normal girl, train her entire life to be ruler, « locked »in that cage, or castle has other people call it. But she is not a wiener, she know she is lucky, that she has a duty to her people, her country. To save her secret idendity, let's call her Vanessa Doulister. She doesn't have many friends because it is always like that in story, the main character is always alone. Mainly because she know that most people are after what she represent, not what she truly is. And maybe because she doesn't have that much self confidence, like most of us.
A "Beauty and the Beast" retelling.
Once upon a time, there was a boy in love with a Lilly. Not a flower, but a girl. It all started one beautiful autumn day. One autumn day that would change the boy's life forever. For on this day, he met Lilly, a beautiful girl with an ugly secret. A secret that threatens to destroy her if she cannot find a way to break the curse forced upon her. Filled with secrets, lies, and love, this short story captures the essence of the original fairy tale with an entirely new twist.
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"Hello, my name is Lilly. What's yours? Is that your mother? I only just came to live here with Ivy, and I don't know many people that come to visit her yet. Do you come often? If you do, we could be friends! Would you like that? To be friends? Why, don't you speak at all? And you should really close your mouth; it is impolite to stare like that."
Ivy called out to her from the doorway of the cottage. "Lilly, if you want him to speak, you must first cease speaking." Both of the women were laughing at the children, and Lilly blushed at the comment.
"Sorry! I just haven't seen anyone my age yet, and I got excited, which happens rather easily. It reminds me a bit of puppies I've read about that just get so excited that they- oops. I'm doing it again. Sorry," she said with a shy smile.
Adam, who had been standing there staring, just as she had pointed out, finally found his voice long enough to tell her his name. She beamed at him, saying that they would be great friends. She seized his hand and began tugging him toward the woods behind the cottage, shouting to Ivy and his mother, "We won't go far! Be back soon!"
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