Everybody hates me.
Well, most everybody hates me.
Oberon dislikes me at times, but otherwise, he loves me.
Everybody hates me because I essentially hate everybody else. I do this because I trust nobody, not even my husband even though I love him dearly.
Yes, I love my husband. I always have and I always will. People think that I don't love him because I'm so mean and when he and I get into a fight, I saw and do things I don't mean to do.
OR...
A certain RED HEAD gets involved and fucks everything up.
That redhead, I truly do hate! Gods I hate him.
The Fey believe that am actually 'weak' because I was never that strong of a fey without Oberon as my husband. But that is far from the truth. I am strong, as in Kelly Clarkson coming back from a bad break up strong! Only stronger!
Well, I have decided that everybody needs to know MY story, about how I met Oberon and fell in love with him. Everybody thinks that he and I married just for power, but that is far from the truth.
We married for love, my daddy just happened to be powerful.
It was long ago, long before the courts were so, so, divide. Yes, let us use that word.
It was around the beginning of time. We had just "appeared" per say. Don't get me started on how our world was created, it involves a giant sneezing (literally) and just, so much math that I never really paid attention.
Oberon was a very young king, back when his hair was brown and not silver as it is now. He was a handsome lad, but like I said, he was very young. He had come into power by being the clever. If you ever wonder how that King Arthur story came into place, it is based on Oberon.
When Oberon was coroneted, people began to speculate who would become his lovely bride, but for a few years, Oberon was more concerned about garnering the trust and admiration of his people instead of concerning himself with find a suitable mate.
Around the same time, I was focusing on being a lady. My dear friend Mab, yes, the Mab, queen of the Unseelie court, was becoming a lady with me.
Mab had been icy enough and strong enough to defeat all the female (and male) competitors for the title of being a queen in the Unseelie court. She and I had met during a hunting trip and we had instantly clicked.
Even though we were complete opposites, I was her most trusted adversary. In Mab's court, there was also speculation about who she would marry. She decided to never marry because she would lose power to her husband.
About five years after Oberon had become King of the Seelie court, he announced that he would start looking for a suitable woman to become his queen since he had become a well liked king that was ruling a stable government.
I thought that I had no chance. Also, it was speculated that he would try to court Mab since a marriage between the two courts would bring peace forever and if it was done at the beginning, then we would never have to worry about war.
Mab thought this idea to be ridiculous, nearly dying of asphyxiation when I told her this during one of our tea times together.
Oberon had a party that night. All the power players in the Seelie realm were invited. Oberon was playing the power game that night and was rubbing elbows and keeping things in his realm intact and at peace. He didn't want any of the lords to go at it and him have to deal with it.
Finding a mate that night was the last thing on his mind.
Now, you must know, I wasn't truly interested in the King. This bitch named Marie-Louise was on his ass like white on rice. She wanted to be his queen.
She was everything that I wasn't. She was pretty where I was plain, she was brilliant when it came to strategy, I didn't give a shit.
The party that night was themed to be masked, Mab helped me get ready. She thought it would be hilarious if she dressed me up like a winter fey. I also knew that she wanted to remind Oberon that she still had influence in his court, no matter who he married or if they weren't on speaking terms, she wanted him to know that she was always watching him.
She equipped me in a beautifully designed dress that made me look like a snowflake, with a white mask that completely covered my identity. My long blonde hair was braided with white ribbons that had snowflake shaped beads on it.
I looked like a snow princess. I loved it!
My father was my escort to the party. My mother was pregnant with my younger brother at the time and she was so far along in her pregnancy that she opted to not risk going into labor at Oberon's palace.
We arrived about thirty minutes into the party. My father instructed me to dance with at least five gentlemen that night, because even though I wasn't really looking for a suitable husband, he still wanted me to keep my options open. I agreed so that he wouldn't get angry.
The palace was beautiful. With all sorts of different flowers growing everywhere, and trees that had been magicked to grow in the shape of tables. Sultry music that could entice anybody to dance was playing.
I was in wonderland.