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June 26th, 1859, London, England
"Tonight's a very important night!" My mother exclaimed in her fake happy voice as the maid that my mother assigned me tightened my damned corset that women of "my class" are supposed to wear, I find it horrible.
"Why?" I asked and then quickly afterwards, I cried out in pain as Marie, my maid tugged my corset.
"Sorry miss!" Marie quickly apologized.
"Don't apologize Marie, she needs to get used to the corset," My mother told her and I rolled my eyes and I squeezed my eyes shut as the maid gave one last tug and then tied it up.
"So why is today a very important night?" I asked as Marie put on all of the undergarments and then helped me slip on a light blue silk gown that most of the women would die for with the large sleeves, the neckline, and the skirt which made my butt look quite large and then I sat down so Marie can place my heels on since I couldn't do it to save my life.
"Why you're going to meet your fiancé!" My mother exclaimed cheerfully and I took a sharp breath.
"What?" I asked.
"Elizabeth, you're turning 21 tomorrow, most women your age and your class are already married! Even though you've been gone for 5 years and we found you yesterday doesn't mean we'll give you a break from society. You've ruined our reputation enough with all that running away with that horrid thief," My mother told me and I clenched my fist as I gave her an icy glare.
"He was more than a thief, mother. I fell in love with a kind, loving, and sweet man," I told her and my mother scoffed.
"Elizabeth, darling, love is a weakness that will destroy you, you're lucky that we found you before you were a thief forever," My mother told me and I felt my hands tightened again.
"Well, being a thief is better than this!" I snapped and she glared at me with those steel blue eyes of hers and my sea green eyes darted away.
"Now come along, Elizabeth. We can't make a late entrance especially to your engagement party," My mother growled and I scoffed and as my mother turned around, I grabbed Tom's locket from my vanity table and quickly placed it around my neck and hid it under my dress and I gave Marie a look and she smiled softly at me and we both followed my mother.
"Look at my two beautiful ladies, my wife and my daughter," My father grinned, his sea green eyes glistening and he showed a big grin.
"Oh, stop it, Charles," My mother giggled and I simply said nothing, fighting the urge to roll my eyes.
"If you excuse me sir, I have to make sure the other maids don't need help," Marie told my father and she disappeared as soon as my father nodded to her.
"Well, we better get down there. Your fiancé is waiting and we're going to have a firecracker show later!" My father exclaimed and I sighed as I looped my arm around my father's and we began our descent towards the parlor.
After what seemed like centuries, the party began to end and I was able to escape my dumb father and my mother who continued to hound me and made sure that I stayed close to my fiancé.
My fiancé was at least 10 years older than me and he had that superior aura which made me hate him instantly. He joked with my mother that he would make me less of a thief and more of an actual woman which is ironic since I stole a firecracker under his nose and I hid it under my dress.
I met some of my old childhood friends who either told me that they were sorry for my loss and that Tom was a great man or they told me that Tom was good riddance and that they were happy for me.
While my mother was telling everyone farewell, I was able to escape my fiancé and my father and I slipped out into our garden which was the place I can stand at the manor and the garden always reminded me of the good memories I had with Tom.
It was like a little maze with wall high shrubs with many ways to get in. At the center of the maze was a garden that my mother takes pride in even though it's the gardeners that take care of it and gazebos dotted the maze which are tended to by our servants.
I strolled over to the small, white gazebo which was where Tom and I would always used to meet before that one fateful night.
I sat down at the bench and I stared into the shrubs.
"I miss you so much, Tom," I murmured as I pulled out his locket and looked at it.
It's a heart-shaped, sterling silver locket that had small designs around the edge of the locket and at the center was a tiny little star that had a tiny diamond at the center. We had each given each other a locket a year after I ran off with him, I had given him a golden locket that was shaped like an oval and inside of the locket was a quote that I remembered he liked. It took me a while to get it but in the end, the way he forest green eyes lit up made it all worth it.
"I wish you could be here and we could just lay here and talk like we used to," I murmured, thinking about those moments where I'd lay my head on his lap and we'd chat about the littlest or the craziest of things.
"Help! Somebody help!" I stood up as I heard a child cry and I began to run as fast as I can in these heels, towards the direction where the cries were being heard and I came across an odd sight.
A small boy who looked about 8 was being dragged away by some sort of shadow.
How can a shadow just do that? I thought as I stood and watched the shadow grab his ankle and try to drag her away from the branch she was holding.
"Help me!" The little boy cried out and I quickly snapped out of my state and tried to pull the girl away from the shadow and I heard some more people running.
"What's going on?!" A woman cried out which startled the shadow a little and gave me time to pull the little boy away from the shadow's grip and he began to run but before I could run, the shadow grabbed my wrist and it floated me into the sky.
"Elizabeth!" I heard my mother cry out as I flew into the night sky with a shadow.
Aloha! Thanks for reading and I hope that you enjoyed this first chapter! In the next one, you'll get to learn about her Storybrooke life where she is called Katie Reynolds! Sorry if you hated this chapter, it gets better, I promise!