Author's Note: I thought I'd start this little humorous tale. If you've ever read the Grimm's version of "Snow White", you know that there are actually two sisters: Snow White and Rose Red. I have taken the Disney version of Snow White and played on the actual character... here is her sister, Rose Red, and the tale she has to tell.

Disclaimer: I do not claim ownership to the actual characters Snow White and Rose Red, nor the storyline that Disney created for their own "Snow White". However, the idea of the switched up sisters is indeed mine, as is the plot that follows. Enjoy!


Pale Spring Rose

Prologue

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The woman smiled tiredly. Her two baby girls were wrapped in soft velvet coverlets, one red and one white. The girl wrapped in white had dark hair and vivid blue eyes with red, rosy cheeks, and the girl wrapped in red had pale skin and blonde hair with peculiar pale, glassy blue eyes. They were Princesses to the throne of Virin, the lovely kingdom on the edge of the world, near the seas of youthfulness and the forests of truth. The woman, Queen of Virin, was named Jade for her own emerald eyes.

Her two daughters were named Rose Red and Snow White.

Now, Rose Red was the baby with rosy cheeks, and Snow White had the fair hair and skin. However, because Rose Red was covered in white, and Snow White in red, the nursery maid attending the Queen and her daughters made a mistake. When the Queen had fallen asleep, she put Rose Red in a crib carved from a white ash tree, with silver unicorns depicted in the wood. Snow White was placed in a crib made from deep mahoghany, with bright floral carved into the rails. And so they were raised, mistaken as their opposite in name.

Rose Red and Snow White were raised away from their mother, for the Queen had many duties. When the Queen did visit her daughters, she merely called them "Her Darling Girls", so the two girls believed that the girl with dark hair and rosy red cheeks was Snow White and the girl with fair hair and pale skin was Rose Red. No one ever thought differently, not until one day...

That one fateful day when the real Snow White, called Rose Red, became lost in the nearby woods. The real Rose Red, called Snow White, urged her parents to send out a search party, but because the Queen told the search party to find Snow White and not Rose Red, the real Snow White was never found. The Queen succumbed from grief and the King remarried, but not after dying from the loss of both a daughter and his loving wife.

Rose Red called Snow White's tale has already been told... but the tale of Snow White called Rose Red has never been found. Until now.

TBC...


Note: I know this idea seems a bit... well, complicated. Don't worry. I just needed to use the confusing names (both real and "fake") in the prologue. From here on out, the story will be about Rose Red (the girl with pale skin and fair hair). Snow White (rosy red cheeks and dark hair) will not be in this story, since I am merely saying that her story is the Disney version of Snow White. Capiche?