Chapter 1: The Way Things Began
I stared into the flames of the bon-fire. The light bounced off my gleaming black hair and sparkled in my chocolate brown eyes. Tears welled up in my eyes as I thought about why they were celebrating. They were celebrating the death of Voldemort.This wasn't the technical anniversary for his death. It was the anniversary of myfather's death. He had been the chief of the Ketchra tribe until he'd been slaughtered by Voldemort.
My tribe celebrates the death of the one who slaughtered the elders. My tribe is weird.My entire family is weird. I'm a princess, in more ways than one. My mother was the princess of India. In two days I travel to England to celebrate the death of Voldemort in honor of my mother. Why England? I haven't the slightest clue. Like I said, my family is weird.
My father had been the chief so that kind of made me a princess. But only if you think that modern day Indians follow the background rules of Pocahontas. Pocahontas's life is a lot like mine. We are both princesses, we both are trapped in our own palace, we don't have a choice in who we marry, and the tribe has complete control over our lives.
At least Pocahontas had a father. I am an orphan that lives with mygrandmother.
I hate life. I hate being a princess. I hate either having to marry Kimikua or Babant. Kimikua was my father and grandmother's choice. He was the descendant of one of the finest warriors in the history of the Ketchra's. Sure he was handsome but way too serious. And he was a squib. I didn't want a plain old squib. I wanted a wizard. A pureblood if I was lucky, but a wizard is the only match for me.
Babant was my mother and my uncle's choice. He was Indian. I think. We'd been friends in the three months I'd lived there. It was almost as if it had been a set up. My best friend for three months was supposed to become my husband.
What really sucks about my life is that I'm only sixteen. I get married when I turn seventeen.And what's worse? School starts tomorrow. And the famous, oh-so great, you have to be his girlfriend Harry Potter is coming sometime in the next couple of weeks. Apparently it's to train the new cursed one that is supposed to be the one defeat "Lady Akishra". I feel bad for her. How do I know it's a her? She goes to school for witchcraft. And now the fate of the world rests on her shoulders. No pressure right?
Now you know my life. How both my parents died when I six, how my grandparents never speak because of the disagreement over my fiancé, and how I most likelywon't live to my seventeenth birthday.
Who am I? I'm Kaya Nilai, the Girl of Hearts.