ok so, i revised some of it in the end so it could go with the second chapter because well... i like it better this way. :)
disclaimer: sadly i dont own any of it except the plot and a few characters.
Lake green. That was my first thought when I looked at him. I know a silly thing to say, but if you ever say such eyes as these, you would think that too. Lake green eyes. They held so much depth in them that you wouldn't know what your name was or where you lived, as I was at this moment in time stair up at him when I first looked upon his face. Earlier if you would have asked me if I believed in love at first sight I would have laughed so hard in your face that you would have thought how unlady like it was of me, but now, I believe in love at first sight, or the closest thing that you can get to love by just gazing up at someone looking into their eyes like it was your first Christmas or you just had your first born child. Ah, I could look at those eyes for days upon days and never get tired of looking at them.
Now, I am pretty positive that he knows im bluntly stair at him like a buffoon. I could feel the heat rising up my body as he looked down upon me, at first his glance was one of amusement, but now as we are both gazing at each other, I can help but notice how his eyes slowly turn from amusement to annoyed and even disgust. At first I couldn't register what it was that could possibly make his eyes turn so fast, but then I realized something, I a mere peasant girl tripped over a rock on my way to the village to get some milk for my Ma, fell into the arms of the Duke of the county that my family sadly resigned in. For a brief second fear flashed through my eyes, for I knew the punishment that was bestowed upon unfortunate people, as now myself, that so much brushed up upon someone of his standards. Quickly finding my brain alas, I hurried up off of the extremely beautiful duke, and slightly bowed and lowered my head so that he couldn't see the fear that was ever so present in my eyes, for fear my Pa taught me, was what fed them their sick sadistic pleasures of innocent peasant girls as myself. I glanced up briefly to see if he had made any indicator as to what was going to happen next, and when met my eyes I was sure I never wanted to see again, for those lake green eyes, held but pure fury in them, and I thought of the only thing I could do at this moment, leave.
"Excuse me Duke, but I must be headed to the market good day to you." I said in my most polite voice I could muster up with out seeming frightened.
Picking up my bag of gold to give to the milkmaid in the village, I brushed off the dust on my dress and was walking past the Duke when he caught hold of my arm roughly and pulled me up against him. I gasped more loudly than I would have, but the intense rage in his eyes as mine met his was more frightening than I would have ever imagined in my entire lifetime.
"Stay right where you are if you wish to even breathe near your family again, is that understood?" he said with such menace that all I could do was slightly nod my head and lower my gaze to the floor and wish but for me to sink into it.
"Ah, Duke Edward, what a pleasant surprise for me to find you here! Your uncle was so worried when you ran out of the parlor this afternoon." said a voice that I could not recognize, but he must be important if the Duke was intimidated by him.
"Ah, Lord Charles, so sorry about my exit, I was just in dire need of some air after the surprise that I was granted just a few moments ago, everything is just fine now, on my way to the stables actually to check up on my horse Abigail." The Duke said holding a fantastic fake smile up at this Lord Charles. This Lord Charles must have really done a number on the Duke for it felt as if my arm was about to be amputated by the Duke him self if he squeezed it any harder, but being the proper lady my Ma raised me, I held my tongue in front of higher ranking.
But just as I thought that I wasn't going to become topic of the lovely conversation of these two men, Lord Charles looked at me, and when I made eye contact with him, it held a gaze that I knew very well from the men in my village to the poor girls that worked that the old tavern inn, lust. Looking down as fast as I could so that I wouldn't be subject to this man's intense gaze any longer or at least I couldn't look at him in the eye while he looked at me in such a way.
"And, whom do you have here Duke Edward? Such a lovely flower." Lord Charles said as he brushed the back of his smooth yet, rough hand across my cheek. Then pulling my chin up so that I would look at him in the eye, but my gaze was focused anywhere BUT his eyes.
"This is a lady that I picked out to...a…be…a…my…a personal servant! Yes, this is my new personal servant! You know, Kathy was getting too old to follow me around, and I was thinking that I needed a new one since Kathy will soon be let go. So I went over and looked around, and I found this lovely chit." Duke Edward said rather rapidly and quiet obviously lying through his teeth, but Lord Charles either didn't particularly care, or he actually believed him.
"Oh isn't that splendid! A new face in the palace! Poor Kathy, she was a good worker too, but im sure this little brut will work just fine, and if I do say so she's even easy on the eyes, unlike Kathy." Lord Charles said, with a Cheshire grin placed on his face.
Looking up at the Duke, my eyes went huge. A servant… not just any servant, but Duke Edward's personal servant, THE NERVE! Did this man, not know of consideration onto what I would have to say on this matter? Oh of course not, who am I but some peasant girl that just so happened to run into him while I was on my way to the market to pick up some milk for Ma and Pa, so that we could have a nice dinner with the family of a boy who wanted to wed me, well looks like my dreams got squished. Looking up at him while him and Lord Charles conversed, I glared with all my might, hopping out of vain that if I glared hard enough that I would burn a hole through his pretty little head and catch his reddish brown hair on fire! Ah, but alas as I said, it was all in vain. But I suppose he did feel my glare on him, for as he was speaking to Lord Charles, he gazed down upon me with a look in his eye that clearly told me 'I will speak to you after this' that was neither here nor there, for I needed answers now, not later, but disobeying a higher rank could mean the worse for me, so being the good little girl I am, I looked at the ground again, wishing it would swallow me whole.
Finally, after what seemed to be several hours, Lord Charles bided his farewell, and gave me a look that defiantly said that I would be seeing him soon. Letting go of the breath I didn't realize I was hold, I finally looked back up at Duke Edward, ah yes, the man that owed me a HUGE explanation as to why he told this man that I was now his "personal servant". Wrenching my arm away from his grasp, I looked up at him, in all of his 6'3 glory and my 5'4 shame, but looking into his eyes with such rage that I didn't know I possessed that I saw maybe a bit of fear flash before his eyes, before a cocky look replaced it, knowing that I couldn't do anything to him without getting a death sentence.
"You know" I began with out even thinking of what was coming out of my mouth, " people don't just go around picking out random girls from the street going, 'Oh look, I think that girl looks like she's got no life, I think I'll make her my personal servant' they at least have the common curtsey of asking said woman's name and such!" I practically yelled at him, no realizing for a second that he was a Duke and I again, was a peasant girl. Then suddenly, it came to me as he smirked at me, I just spoke to the Duke of the county I lived in as if he was a commoner, and I just yelled at him. Raising my hand to my mouth, I gasped lightly at what I had just said and done.
"Well, well, look who's got a big mouth, I was going to let you go free with just a warning, but now, that you have just lectured me on my etiquettes, I don't think I can simply let you off with a warning, no, now you HAVE to be my servant girl, for if you don't, well, lets just say that your family wont make it through the up coming winter, hmm." He said smirking down upon me, and now the fear was profound in my eyes as he grasped my arm again, now tighter and for a second I thought that he was going to draw blood.
"So girl, what is your name so I know whom is to now wait on me?" he asked in a rather cocky manor that I would have loved to knock him out for, but the comment about my family and not making it through the winter, made me rethink my approach to this.
"Isabella Swan, sir." I said like an obedient little girl.
"Isabella Swan, Charlie and Renee Swans only daughter, soon to possibly wed to Jacob Black a blacksmith, oh yes, I've heard of you through my sister Alice's tales of the market, you're the girl that she helped one day for it seems that you can't walk upon a flat surface without tripping over it. You work at the bakery part time to help with your family, hmm, you will defiantly be an interesting addition to my servants. Now come, we leave for the palace now." Duke Edward said. I had never heard someone say so much about someone they didn't even know, and then it dawned upon me, this is the Duchess Brother, Edward, the oldest out of three, the youngest Alice, helped me one day in the market place, when I tripped over a chicken, and almost knocked over a whole thing of eggs, but luckily Alice was there to help me break my fall and not knock over the eggs. After that, Alice and I had a nice chat over by the river talking about ourselves. She told me about her life in the palace and how utterly boring it was to sit through all those lessons about the other lands and the new world and learning how to speak 4 languages by the age of 10. I on the other hand, thought I was amazing that she learned those many languages and learned about math and history, while the only thing she learned was basic math and how to read and write. Alice on the other hand thought that it would be fantastic to just live a simple pleasant peasant life.
As the Duke turned on his heals and walked away quickly, I just stood there staring at him in disbelief. Shaking my head clearing my thoughts, I slowly started to follow him in the direction I supposed was the castle. Trying to keep up with him, was a lot harder than I thought it would be, I suppose I didn't realize that my short legs couldn't keep up with his long muscular ones. Practically running to catch up to him, I realized that fate was most defiantly NOT on my side today. A rock about the size of a small mouse, just so happened to come into contact with my foot at the wrong time, making me fall and trip onto Duke Edward. Yes, fate certainly was Not on my side today.
Finally after my tragic fall onto the Duke, we made it to the castle, with him annoyed and me… completely embarrassed. Walking through the huge door way, the Duke proceeded into one of the side doors, leaving me, alone, in the Fourier. Standing there awkwardly, I tried to think of some way that I could escape the castle and possibly disappear from the village, and possibly find a lovely man to marry me with a false name. But I didn't realize while I was forming my amazing escape plan, Duke Edward, had reappeared into the Fourier, with another person. I finally broke out of my thoughts when I heard a squeal coming from my left. I didn't have anytime to register what was happening before I was litterly tackled to the floor by a small and painfully strong body. Looking down at the body, I realized when I saw the persons smiling face, exactly who it was.
"BELLA! OH MY GOD! I'm so happy you're here! I told Edward to come get me when he found his new servant and I was hoping that he got someone I would approve of who it was, and I came in here and I saw you standing there and IM SO HAPPY! I get to talk to you when ever and you can come with me when I shop! OH IT'S GONNA BE AMAZING!" Alice rambled on talking way to fast for me comprehend.
"Alice, I didn't bring Isabella here for you, she is here to be MY replacement servant for Kathy, she is NOT your personal play toy, you can MAYBE talk to her ever so often, and you will NOT take her off of this land while I am not there. Now Alice would you be so kind as to show Miss Swan to my chambers, I need to have a talk with Carlisle about Miss Swan." Edward said before walking off into the same doors he appeared with Alice through.
"Alrighty, come on Bella! To the West Wing!" Alice said skipping off up the stairs and to the left. How any person could actually skip up stairs and not fall was beyond me. Running to catch up with her, I again tripped on the last step, laughing at my distress; Alice helped me up, but not without a glare from me. Walking for like it seems forever before we stopped in front of a pair of the most beautiful cherry oak doors.