Hello! degrassian4ever here! This is my first fan fiction hope all of you like it. Reviews are welcome and much appreciated. I'll update when I can, once a week maybe. Enjoy!
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Chapter One: Mysterious Boy
I felt a pang in my stomach. An odd feeling it was. Never had I felt this way before. What could be the cause? Could it perhaps be something I have eaten?
As my eyes wander around the room filled with people I attempt to remember the meals I've had throughout the day. Something catches my eye and I suddenly forget what was on my mind. I attentively focus my attention on a boy around my age. He has raven black hair that shines as bright as the darkness that I expect every evening after supper. His hair cascades perfectly over his forehead like a waterfall. The second thing I notice of this mysterious boy is his two shiny, bright green emeralds that one would call eyes.
The sharp pang in my lower abdomen returns. What is this? I decided to go ask Nurse Marie for some help.
I walked up the several flights of stairs until I finally arrived to the nurses' headquarters. My family owns about thirty nurses that work all around the castle. Some cook for our family while others do the chores. But Nurse Marie was not just any house worker. She was my wet-nurse. She was practically my mother. My own mother never paid much attention to me. To her, I was just one of her many children. But Nurse Marie took me in as one of her own. She raised me, nourished me, and gave me plenty of love to last me forever. Nurse Marie always knew what to say to comfort me. Whatever she was doing, she would drop it and say I was more important.
"Nurse Marie!" I called out through the deserted hallway. Where did everyone go? I wandered through the abandoned passage.
"Nurse Marie? Nurse Elena? Nurse Carmen?"
I was beginning to feel frightened. I held the torch nervously. My hand shook violently as goose bumps formed throughout my whole body. As I anxiously walk down the darkened hallway, I feel a heavy hand upon my narrow shoulders. It felt so cold that shivers ran up and down my spine as if having a race. I gasp deeply and almost drop my torch. I turn around and all I see are two emerald crystals that seem too familiar. A soothing voice echoes through the seemingly empty castle.
"Madam Clare. Art thou alright?" It was the mysterious boy I saw earlier. I felt as if my heart could pop out of my chest at that very moment. I wonder if he could hear the loud thumps my heart produced. He had startled me and his beauteous eyes caught me off guard and left me speechless.
"Pardon me for alarming thou. It was not my intention. I merely wondered what a graceful princess such as thyself was doing in such a shabby place like this." He gestured to his surroundings.
"Uh…I – I…" I began to stutter. What is wrong with me? Princesses do not stutter. I scolded myself. I have no idea why I am acting this way around this fellow.
The pang I felt before returned but with more power. I have a tingling feeling as if little insects ran inside my stomach. I began to feel dizzy and a little foggy. I felt really nervous but I could not exactly explain why that was. I could not find the right words to tell this boy. All of my thoughts are now jumbled up in my brain. All I thought about was what this one human being was doing to me.
"I was looking for Nurse Marie." I finally mustered up from all my stammers.
"Well I am afraid thou will not findeth her in the dungeon."
I am in the dungeon?!
I thought that I was walking towards the nurses' headquarters but I must have ended up walking in the wrong direction. This young man in front of me has clogged my thoughts so much that I lost my sense of direction.
"Oh, dear. Silly me! I was just so deep in thought that I cannot even find my way around my castle," I said, with a blush invading the paleness of my face.
This kind gentleman took my hand and treated it with a kiss. Everything I am feeling is even stronger and I felt my face burn so hot that someone from the neighboring kingdom can probably notice it. For some odd reason though, I am enjoying this. It feels like such a rush.
"I will take thee to the Nurses' headquarters if thou would like, Madam Clare." He said with that wonderful voice of his.
"That would be lovely… And what shalt I call thee?"
"Thou may call me Elijah, Madam Clare." As he said this, he bowed down to me.
I did not like when villagers would bow down to me. It made me feel as if I was better than them when in reality I am just a seventeen-year-old girl who is in the royal family. I didn't do anything to deserve this treatment. I do not like to be treated any differently.
"Please Elijah; there is no need to boweth down to me. And please, just call me Clare. I would much more prefer that."
"As thee wishes, Clare" Elijah responded as he offered me his elbow to hold on to. I took his elbow into mine and he led the way into the darkness of the castle.