Maya POV
Sometimes I like to just sit. Sit in the bay window where my peaches and I first met. The bay window that has become our favorite place to think and just be. Riley always says she loves it because we have so much history tethered to the worn seats. But I love it for a different reason. I love it because if you look past the town square and the beautiful houses, if you look past the fields of flowers and sunshine you'll see a rock.
Very anticlimactic I know, yet it's not the actual rock that holds importance. It is what the rock represents. That recognizably large piece of earth is a symbol of the separation between the Emerald kingdom in which I live and the Peridot kingdom that we are forbidden to cross into. That rock represents the unknown. And I hate the unknown.
I could give a very long history lesson about how the two kingdoms separated, but I'll just stick to a short recap. To start with, it's important to understand that when a baby is born, usually on the first night, half of a necklace appears in their crib. No one knows where it comes from, maybe fairies or magicians.
Regardless, that necklace is a tie to their true love-who holds the other half. People say that when your necklace gets close to your mate's they fly together, almost like a magnetic attraction. They say the pull to each other becomes so strong that it physically hurts to deny each other's existence. It'll make more sense later, but let's jump back into the whole splitting kingdoms thing.
The Emerald kingdom is named after its rich green fields, however more importantly the gem's representation of being a "seeker of love". The king and queen are Riley's parents Cory and Topanga. They are each other's true love-so their necklaces match. Since they have felt the pull of love and the know the importance of the necklaces, they rule accordingly. It's illegal to marry anyone without proof of love (i.e. the necklaces). Overall they rule pretty fairly and the lands are moderately profitable.
There's only one rule that doesn't make sense. Royalty can not marry non-royalty. I find this highly hypocritical after the whole illegal to not marry true love thing, but apparently the previous rulers set the rule in stone. Cory and Topanga were just really lucky that they both came from highly important families so they got to be with each other. I don't care about the rule for me- I'm just a commoner- it's Riley that I'm worried for. She's the future queen so if her true love isn't royal then she'll be forced to marry someone else.
On with the story, the Peridot Kingdom is basically opposite. Named after the stone of strength, love holds not even a scrap of importance there. That kingdom is all about power and wealth. I've heard that their King and Queen don't even have matching lockets that the Queen wanted more money so she found the richest man in her lands and married him and he married her so he could become the most powerful.
Even though I've heard all these awful things about the Peridot kingdom, I can't help but sit and look out at that rock. Illegal or not, I'm going to go there and see for myself. One day. One day very soon.
A/N
Hey guys, This is my first fanfic so PLEASE review and give me a lot of advice and comments. I definitely have a plot in mind so the story can go on if you all like it. I'm going on vacation in a few days so I won't be able to update for two ish weeks. But like I said I won't even continue it if people aren't fans.
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