Okay! This is my first story, so please no flames! Just read and review. Oh, and I don't own Kuroshitsuji! Yana Toboso does!

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Be an unknowing angel

A lady should always be super-cute and weak in front of her lord!

I, Lady Elizabeth Ethel Cordelia Middleford, was raised by these words. Like every other girl born into the country of roses was. We were taught to be ladies.

I hid the true me from Ciel. I enveloped myself in girlish things and surrounded myself by cute things.

Weak in order to love

Strong in order to protect

Both in order to stay by your side

… To Ciel, I was Lizzie, a useless girl to put up with, a cousin.

To Sebastian I was Lady Elizabeth, destined to never marry the young master.

To myself, I was Liza, a lady who loved her fiancée and could protect and love him. I am simply a foolish girl who can't be bothered to be kidnapped to hurt Ciel.

Because Ciel does not love me. Maybe he never did or maybe he stopped.

Or, maybe, just maybe, he still loves me. But he pretends not to, in order to protect me from darkness and the criminal underworld.

And so I cling to that hope, wishing and praying. I create Lizzie, a façade. I create a wall for myself, blocking all evil, hiding the darkness and showing the light.

But still… It isn't enough. Every smile and smirk sent to others, every abrupt disappearance… I falter slightly, tears falling down my face. It's only slightly and even the butler doesn't notice it.

My wall shivers with every frown, trembles with each glare and shakes from the screams.

My wall crumbles from the hatred and breaks from the loss of love.

And the day my wall comes down completely will be the day I throw it all away. The day I can't face anything and the day I can't deal with the darkness in his life. That will be the day that I, the daughter of Marquis Alexis Leon Middleford: Elizabeth, the wife of the Queen's watchdog, will protect the son of the late Earl Vincent Phantomhive: Ciel,. It will be me, not the pitch-black butler.

Because I swore to myself that I would become a wife Ciel could protect and a wife that could protect Ciel.

I am a girl who loves the dark, while she is the light. The sun that fell in love with the moon.

The innocent princess with a crush on the dark knight in his shining armor.

I am Liza, a lady who loves and hopes and wishes and dreams.

Liza, whose world has crashed down around her.

Liza, whose wall has finally crumbled.

Cute until the very end.

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