Once upon a time, in the land of Capal there lived a beautiful girl named Kelly. But her beauty was nothing compared to the radiance of Neha!

Neha had long black hair, with beautiful tanned skin and shining brown eyes.

When she was young, Neha had been found on the side of the road by a baker, named Carl, who had 2 children of his own. Carl the baker took her in, and treated her as one of his own children.

However it was a different story when it came to the children of Carl. James, who was eight, was two years older than Eliza and Neha. The two girls were the same age, and Carl encouraged them to be friends.

Sadly, he was dead wrong.

For 7 years James and Eliza made Neha act like their slave. She had to do all of their chores, and wash their clothes, and bring them food, AND she even had to brush their teeth for them!

James was tall and gangly, with curly dark hair, with green eyes and tanned skin.

Eliza was short, very short, with tanned skin, short curly black hair and pale green eyes.

When James was fifteen, he was sent to Oxford University, where he would study for eight years. When he returned, he would not only be a scholar, but would also be a well trained swordsman. He would be knighted, and would then travel to court to become a courtier. Carl had 

saved his money for many, many years to give his son this education. He had also saved enough money for both Eliza and Neha to become Ladies when they reached an appropriate age, if they wished to.

However, Eliza told her father that Neha had confessed to her that she only wanted to be a baker, as he had been.

So Carl organised for her to become an apprentice in his shop, so that when she married (which, hopefully, would be soon. And Carl thought it WOULD be soon, because she was so utterly beautiful) she could continue his business.

And he made Eliza work as an apprentice too, so she could be occupied after losing her one companion. (Eliza was pretty darn angry about that…)

But only 3 weeks after James left for Oxford, Carl became very sick. For seven days he lay in agony, writhing in pain, in his bed. And on the eighth day… he DIED!!

Neha was devastated

For three days and three nights she wept endlessly on her bed.

Meanwhile, Eliza began to search the house for the money put away by her father. She searched behind paintings, and under carpets, and in mattresses, and in and behind books in the bookcases, and under furniture, and inside pillows, and even in the walls and under the floorboards themselves!



Until finally she had accumulated a large sum of money. For indeed, she had also found the money their father had planned to leave to them to support them in their lifestyle for many years, until they married, and James could earn his own money.

She took what she had found and hid it in her own room. She then called the red eyed Neha from her bedroom, and ordered her to…

"Take everything from my room and put it into my father's bedroom. You are to throw everything out that is his, or old, or tattered, or not valuable. Then, you are to take your things and put them in the kitchen cupboard. That is your new bedroom. You are now my maid, and you shall do everything I order."

Neha nodded quietly and began to work. As she did so, she could hear Eliza softly counting the money. Eventually Eliza went out, and when she had returned she had bought herself rich food to indulge herself with, and beautiful new clothes for herself.

She refused to work in Carl's bakery. Instead, Neha cooked all of the bread and pastries they sold herself, then returned to clean their house once everything had been sold. Eliza gave her the barest scrapes of food. And Neha suffered in silence.

Then, one day, two royal messengers arrived bearing this message:



'A great search has begun for a girl Named Neha, who is believed to be 13 years of age. Those who can give her to us shall be greatly rewarded by the King of Capal.'

Author's Note

Well, unlike some other stories, these characters ARE all made up by me

This was written for a friend of mine, named Neha (ZOMG)

she and I and another of our friends (The infamous Kelly) went through a phase where we were writing each other fairytales

and they weere actually REALLY GOOD

so I decided to publish them, because I was the only one with an account...

I'll let you know who authored each one, if you're interested.

Anyway, the rest of this will be up in about 5 seconds... so I hope you enjoy reading them!