Most people say "you only live once," but most people are as wrong about that, as they are about everything. Take me for example, I once lived as a princess, an assistant, a student, I've lead many lives, but I always had to come back to one. No matter how many times I ran away from that title, I'll always be Maria Alexandra Irina Midford crowned princess of Denmark and future wife of an unknown man from a neighboring country. But all I ask for is just one chance, for me to make my own choice, for me to have the freedom to fall in love with someone who would love me for who I am, not what I am and where I'm from, just me.
-Flashback-
"Maria, it has been decided, you engagement with Oliver E.C Davis of England will be official once your 16th birthday have arrive in the 15th of June, nobles and royalty of both kingdoms will be invited and that is when we will make your engagement official." My father is the king of Denmark, and my mother was the descendent of the last emperor of Japan. My mother died of an incurable disease shortly after my birth, and my father have always been in poor ever since I was little. 'Father why?' I wanted to ask him so badly, why can't I just be a normal girl, why can't I fall in love the way everyone does, marry someone of my own will and bear a child, not an heir?
"But father isn't it still too early to make a decision upon who I am to marry?" I said in the most composed manner that I could muster up. I haven't seen crowned prince Oliver in ten years. We drifted so far apart, I don't even know if he even remembers me at all, truth be told, I don't even know how he looks anymore.
"Maria, we are not going to have this conversation again. This is your destiny, and this is something that you can't run away from, please just give in and except your fate, I will not have this conversation with you again, this is final." I had my duties as the princess of Denmark to see to my people's happiness before mine, but please let me be selfish, just once.
"Father, destiny and fate, are words created by people to justify, to make an excuse of all the hope and dreams they have given up on, destiny and fate are mere words if not given a meaning, and I for one will not give them mean, not even if it was requested of me, I love my people, but please give me one chance to find what I am looking for." I said and I turned around and left and I never once looked back. I packed everything I could take with me and left for my mother's birth place, Japan.
