Chapter 1: The not-so-wise Decision
Princess Hansel Westerguard walked along the seemingly endless hallways of the palace she lives. A true princess walks with chin up and moves elegantly with high dignity accompanied with a smile but Hansel is none of those today, she have her feet dragging on the carpeted floor, head hung low, and frowning. Why? Because her 12 older brothers won't even bother to look at her, worst of all, it's her birthday, not a single "happy birthday", gift, celebration, nor a smile greeted her at all, not even queen mommy nor king daddy are there since they are in the neighboring countries for diplomatic reasons. So lost at the thoughts of loneliness and sorrow, she ends up bumping on her 10th eldest brother, William.
"Sorry" she meekly apologizes but all he gave to her was a cold glare before walking not saying a word. She slumped even more realizing he doesn't remember her b-day at all instead it's a cold glare he gave her.
Hansel's birthday is the worst days of all. Whenever it's her time of the year they always end up pranking her, laughing at her, no one greeting at her, sarcastic comments, and the ones who are nice to her are never there. So the day goes on, finding a noose on her chair, a booby-trapped cake, tripping, glaring, and twins dumped her a bucket of pig's blood as she tries to resist herself from crying, she runs back to her room as they simply laugh at her while some stared at her before going back to their business.
She ran past the servants who won't stop asking what's wrong, so she ends up snapping at them before slamming the door close on their faces. She went inside her beautiful bathroom and twisted the cold water faucet, she slumped in the bathtub with arms hugging her legs and face buried on her knees. She doesn't care of the water overflows she just doesn't care anymore. She sobbed as she repeatedly ask questions why she even existed and why is she treated like this.
She didn't do anything to them at all but why are they treating her like this? Why?
It took a lot of screaming and sobbing for her to finally feel the effects of cold water. She wants to get mad and yell at them but the cold water stopped her. She pulled herself together before she slowly, really slowly cleans herself up. Washing her body with rose-scented, milk-based soap shivering when she washes herself off with cold water removing the pig's blood off her fairly tanned skin and chocolate brown hair. She wrapped herself with a bathrobe and went inside her room but she notices no noose on her chair, maybe they felt bad for her. A ghostly smile adores her face at the thought but was crushed when she found snakes under her pillow which she simply glared at, grab and threw it out the window, she is never scared of those things anymore, in fact, she grew up with them, any creepy animals will never scare her, she will instead bravely grab it and threw it out her window.
With that out of the way, she dries herself off and puts on her nightgown, she doesn't feel like eating dinner anyways…especially with them.
She plops on the bed soundlessly as she tries to figure out how to get them to like her just once. She pondered and pondered until she heard a knock on her door. She walked up to answer but asks who it is since she's sure it's the twins.
"It's me milady" the knocker said, Hansel opened the door and saw the servant she yelled at earlier.
"What?" Hansel said, clearly mad but covers it up.
"It's dinner time milady" the servant said, cowering with fear. With this, Hansel saw herself on her and she let out a sigh.
"No" Hansel plainly said.
"But milady-"
"Don't…I'm not in the mood for food…or seeing them" Hansel said. The servant nodded and walks off.
"Wait!" Hansel called out. The servant stopped and turns around with fear evident on her face.
"I'm sorry" Hansel said truthfully.
"Milady you have nothing to apologi-"
"No! I do have something to apologize…I'm sorry for yelling at you earlier long with other servants, I know you just want to help, I shouldn't have yelled at any of you at all"
"I-it's okay milady, I understand"
"Thank you" Hansel said before closing the door. Hansel jumped back on her bed hoping to fall into a sweet deep sleep and hopefully, just hopefully won't wake up…ever.
KNOCK! KNOCK!
A loud knocking disrupted her.
"Hansel?! Hansel young lady get out of your room it's dinner time!" her eldest brother of the brood and soon-to-be king Klaus yelled. She angrily gets off the bed and slams her door open. He kept telling her to go downstairs and eat her dinner but she persists she's not hungry only making the situation worst and she snapped at him by telling him he will be a terrible king which ended the argument before slamming her door close and leaving Klaus to gape while the other brothers stared with shock and some "ooh"ing.
Hansel kicked the first thing she saw, and that was her childhood memories in a chest which knocked it open and spilling the contents in it causing, she growled in frustration apart from her hurt foot. She knelt down and picked it up, of course she have servants and all but these are her personal things, they must NOT know any of this. She notices something that seems to differentiate all the things she picked up. It's a notebook, no, not just an ordinary notebook...it's her diary filled with ALL the things she know about her brothers which made her abandon the rest and picked her pink notebook up.
She opens it and the first thing she saw was a family picture causing smile sadly, so she flips another page and saw the title is "My Big Brother Klaus". She bit her lip and reads it, she notices one thing…he wants to know if he is a good king. The thought hit her like a ton of bricks and realizes that back then Klaus is always unsure if he makes a good king and will be motivated if you support him, telling him he'll be great, and giving approvals. This made her frown realizing what she said to him earlier was really, really bad…she will definitely apologize to him but it can wait for tomorrow.
She flips the next page and continues on and on until every single detail of the brothers is learned. Then suddenly an idea struck her. She realizes that if she uses these she might have at least one of them to finally notice her. She slams the notebook close with a confident smile on her face with thought "This starts tomorrow" before jumping on to bed with arms behind her head along with a daydreamer's smile and shuts her eyes and falls into a dreamless sleep. _
Notes: Fem! Hans' design is by JuliaJm and her brothers are by Emma's Disney World both can be found to . Also the "evil" prince(ss) never happened.
