Snow White:
"You'll need this, you'll definitely need this!" Mother said while grabbing dresses, skirts and other stuff I had never even touched from my wardrobe onto a huge pile of clothes on my bed. While, Maria the head maid and some other maids neatly folded them into my many suitcases.
"l won't need them all," I insisted while pulling some clothes that I knew most definitely wouldn't wear.
Mother gently tugged them out of my grasp and hastily shoved them back into the suitcases, "you never know when you might have a surprise party or ball or if an important guest comes to the school."
"Mother, I'm going to school the most number of ball dresses I'll need are maybe two or three at the most."
"Tsk," She muttered disapprovingly.
"I'd rather where a pair of comfortable pants rather than a tight dress anyway,"
"You will not be taking a single pair of pants, or I will have someone brought to the Palace to teach you rather than let you embarrass me by wearing men's clothing. When I was your age all I wanted was to wear fine silk dresses and elaborately decorated skirts. This is all your fault, Maria, for making her a pair of useless trousers." Mother said sternly while Maria turned her attention elsewhere with a guilty expression. However, Mother wasn't really mad at Maria rather at me for whining and begging Maria to sew me a pair of warm and comfortable pants. Maria was Mother's best friend since she could apparently remember. Maria was born in the Palace like Mother and was born in the same year but was a few months older. Maria's mother was the head maid of the Palace and was also my grandmother's best friend so their family was entwined with ours.
Maria was like a second mother to me. She had looked after me since the minute I was born and still devoted the same care and love to me as she did back then. She felt more than my like my mother than Mother did. She was always travelling to other kingdoms to solve issues and maintain peace and was rarely around. Even if she was in the Palace she was always busy helping Father with peace treaties, improvements for our kingdom and other noble deeds.
A guard came walked into the room, bowed and said, "Excuse me Your Highnesses, Your Majesty is wanted in the King's study."
"Yes, thank you," Mother said and gracefully walked away.
As soon as she walked out of the room I quickly grabbed the trousers out of the wardrobe and stuffed it into one of the suitcases.
"I don't think you should take those, Dear." Maria said.
"She'll never know and nothing bad will happen," I assured her.
"I do not like lying to your mother and seeing you disobey her. Your mother may be strict and tell you to act in strange ways but she knows best and wants the best for you." Maria said sternly.
"Well Maria I will definitely take your advice but first I have something for you," I said while pulling out a gold necklace with a gold pendant with Maria's name engraved on it in cursive writing.
"This is for you, Maria, but it will never make up for all things you have done and in fact nothing ever will."
Maria looked on the verge of tears, "I am sorry Your Highness but I am afraid I cannot take something as beautiful and valuable as that."
"Please take it. Consider it a gift from me even though I didn't make it."
She slowly nodded in agreement while I put the necklace around her neck and clicked the golden clasp into place. In all the commotion from the necklace Maria forgot about the pants so I happily walked out of my bedroom to Father's study.
Approaching the study I could over hear Mother and Father talking in serious voices but I couldn't make out what their important discussion was about. However, whatever the discussion was about ceased immediately when I knocked on the study's door. They both swivelled around with stern looks on their faces that melted into their normal sincere faces when they realised that it was only me.
"Am I interrupting anything important?" I asked.
"No, in fact we just discussing you and were hoping to have a little chat with you." Father said in a genuine tone but gave me feeling that this chat was going to be quite so little.
"We need to talk about your new school and more importantly you," Mother started. Oh no, I thought, this definitely wasn't going to end well.
"We are sending you to this school so you can be prepared for the challenges that will await you when you become the Queen. However, at the moment you are acting like you don't care at all about school, your future and how people." Father said.
"Yes, I do!" I yelled.
"Shh! Your father is talking this is the kind of behaviour we're talking about. Interrupting parents when they are talking, wearing men's clothes acting like a child."
"This behaviour is immature for a princess especially of your age. We are hoping that when you come back that you will be all grown and act like a proper princess. Have you seen any other child of your age in this kingdom with a better and more concrete future than you? No but thing that might stop you from that future is yourself."
Father had never spoken to me like this so it did hurt but I tried to hold back the tears that were threatening to pour out to stay strong and show that I was not a weak and immature little girl.
"You need to grow!" Father said while his voice turned into a shout and his face started to flush red.
Mother quickly out her arms around Father and frantically whispered for him to calm down. Slowly Father's anger melted away as fast as snow does when the sun comes out as soon as he gazed into Mother's eyes full of nothing but passion and love. Mother was the face of calmness and peacefulness. She was probably the most beautiful woman in the kingdom and one of the most successful students of her time at school. She had ebony black hair that cascaded down to hips in waves, emerald green eyes and red dewy lips. Father on the other hand was a charming, gallant and popular king, everyone loved him. In his time at his school he was the ladies' man and the most popular boy at school. Sometimes I couldn't imagine him being the charming prince that flirted with every girl he met and made girls faint at the sight of him as he seemed so devoted to Mother. While I was short, had cloudy grey eyes and pale skin. The only resemblance I had to my parents was their ebony hair even; however, my hair was short and just touched my shoulders. In their eyes I must have looked like a daughter that had failed miserably, nothing like they were when they were younger. But they were right, in a stranger's eyes I looked nothing like the heir to throne nor did I act like one.
"What we mean, Snow, is that we want you to take this opportunity and use it wisely and carefully. We can see the Queen inside, it just needs to surface and the only holding you back from unleashing it is that you don't want to. We understand that because we were the same, we also didn't want to lose our innocence and freedom. But this school will teach you the benefits when you do unleash your true capabilities." Mother said smiling warmly as if nothing had happened before.
I nodded in agreement and walked out of the study. Heading towards the palace gardens I thought carefully about what they had said. It was true I didn't want to grow and be expected to do this and do that. I strolled through the gardens towards the back to my favourite spot. As I had no siblings I had no to play with so Father and I made a big swing and attached it to a huge and grand oak tree. The swing was big enough for me to still be able to swing on it without collapsing. Mother didn't approve of me always spending time on children's toys but I always came to it when in trouble or in doubt. This time; however, I knew that I wouldn't see my beloved swing for a very long time.
I climbed onto my swing for the last time and swung on it while watching the sun slowly fade away and the sky turning into a party of brilliant colours. Hoping and determining to be the Queen my parents had always wanted me to be and to see their faces full of pride and happiness. That is all I ever want now.
Sorry for not updating but I hope you liked this replacement chapter.