Here it is! The first official chapter, hope you like it.

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Spring of 1764...

It was a warm spring night in the heart of France. A beautiful and very large castle stood proudly and towered above the guards that stood around it. The stars glistened brightly in the sky like millions of diamonds and the moon hung in the sky looming over the large decorative structure. The only other source of light outside were the lanterns that were lite around the castle, dancing in the night.

Inside, a young girl around ten years old with long curly blonde hair, fair white skin, bright blue eyes and wearing a light green dress made her way hurriedly up the seemingly never ending flight of stone steps in the West Wing.

When she got to the top of the stairs, she came to a pair of large polished hardwood doors. She knocked rhythmically on the door. A few seconds later, a rhythmic not in response was heard before the door opened revealing a young boy around twelve years old with long blonde hair and dark blue eyes.

"Come in" the boy gestured in a hushed whisper as he stood aside and the let the girl in as he closed the door behind him.

"What are you doing here, Elisabeth?" he asked her.

"I wanted to see you again before I leave tomorrow" Elisabeth told him as they walked over to the boys king-size bed.

"I still can't believe my father is sending you away" the boy said sadly as he sat on his bed.

"I know, Adam" Elisabeth said with a sigh as she took sat on the bed "He says that I'm a bad influence on you and I distract you from your... princely duties"

The young prince rolled his eyes "I think it's ridicules. Just because you like to have doesn't mean you're a bad influence"

"Well, in your father's eyes I am" Elisabeth told him.

"This isn't fair" Adam crossed his arms over his chest "You're my best friend and I'm never going to see you again"

"Yes you will, Adam" Elisabeth said placing a hand on his shoulder "I promise you, I'll come back to see you"

"Really?" Adam asked her.

"Really, really" Elisabeth told him.

Adam sighed "I'm going to miss you so much" tears started to fill his eyes.

"I know" Elisabeth said as she brought him into a hug "I'm going to miss you, too"

Adam held Elisabeth tight as if she would disappear now if he let go of her. The tears that pricked his eyes threatened to spill, but he held them back as best he could.

"Oh, I just remembered" Elisabeth as she separated from the hug "I have something for you"

She reached into a small pocket on her dress and pulled a brown leather woven bracelet.

She handed to Adam who held it in his hands while examining it "Where did you get this?"

"I made it for you" Elisabeth told him "That way you'll have something to remember me by" she helped him tie it around his wrist.

"Thank you, Elsie" Adam said looking down at the woven bracelet with a small smile "I want to give you something, too" he climbed off his bed and walked over to a table that had a small box on top of it. He opened it up and pulled out a beautiful gold necklace before walking back over to the bed.

"I want you to have this" Adam held the necklace out to her.

Elisabeth stared at it awe "Adam...it's beautiful, but this was your mother's necklace. Are you sure?"

"I'm sure" Adam told her as he put the necklace on Elisabeth "So now you'll always have a piece of me with you"

Elisabeth looked down at the necklace as tears filled her eyes "Thank you, Adam" she hugged him tightly and he returned the hug.

"Elsie?" Adam asked her while still hugging her.

"Yes?"

"Are we always going to be best friends?"

"Of course" she separated from the hug and looked right into his dark blue eyes "I promise, no matter what happens, you'll always be my best friend"

Adam hugged her again happily "And you'll always be my best friend, too"

Elisabeth smiled to herself "No matter what..."

"Elisabeth...Elisabeth? Elisabeth!"

The sound of her uncle calling her name snapped Elisabeth out of her thoughts and she looked over at her uncle.

"Yes, Uncle Phillip?" she asked him.

"We're almost to the village" he told his niece.

"Oh...okay" Elisabeth said in a slightly dazed state as she looked ahead of her.

"Daydreaming again?" her uncle asked her without taking his eyes off the road.

"Yes, sorry" Elisabeth told him.

Elisabeth was now a beautiful twenty-six year old young lady. After being away from Villeneuve for sixteen years and finally coming back home, Elisabeth was happy to be back where she spent the first four years of her life before her mother died of a sickness and was then taken in by the kind-hearted queen who happened to be an old friend of her mother. When she first arrived at their castle, Elisabeth felt a bit out of place seeing as how she was just a simple peasant girl and was now going to live in a large castle. The staff and the queen were happy to have Elisabeth living with them, but the King wasn't very happy. The King was a cruel and cold-hearted man who treated everyone cruelly, including his own son Prince Adam.

When Elisabeth first met the King, she was scared of him and tried to keep her distance from him as much as she could. After being at the castle for a few weeks, Elisabeth had befriended the young Prince who was only six-years old at time. She thought that he was sweet and kind, the complete opposite of his father, maybe that's why he was so cold towards Adam. The two quickly became close friends throughout the years of living in the castle together. She also made friends with some of the staff, such as Mrs Potts who was a kind and understanding woman. Also Lumiere who was very warm and welcoming of her when she first arrived along with one of the maids Plumette. Elisabeth thought she was very sweet and very helpful, then there was Coggsworth. He was a good man and Elisabeth often saw him as a grandfather figure, but sometimes he was a little too serious sometimes.

She also saw the queen as a mother to her because she treated Elisabeth as if she was her own daughter. Both she and Adam were very close to his mother and they both loved her very much, but sadly when Adam was twelve and Elisabeth was ten, the queen had gotten very, very sick. The doctor did all he could for her, but it wasn't enough because a few months after she gotten sick, the queen had died in her sleep. Adam was devastated when his mother died and Elisabeth was the only one there for him when he needed a shoulder to cry on or needed someone to talk to. Elisabeth was heart-broken over the lose of the queen as well, even though she wasn't her mother, she saw her as her mother. The whole kingdom was saddened by the queen's passing, but the King wasn't so heart-broken, in fact he wasn't even phased when he was told that his wife had died.

Then, only a few weeks after the queen's passing, Adam's father thought it was the perfect time to start molding Adam into his own image. The only problem was that Elisabeth kept distracting from his duties and kept getting the two of them into trouble constantly. The King decided something had to be done and after pulling some strings, he found out that Elisabeth had an uncle in Paris and decided to send her there to live with him.

After that, Elisabeth never saw Adam again. She had tried to keep in contact with him through letters, but after a while, he just stopped replying to them. Now that she's back home, she's anxious and excited to see her old friend again, but she promised her uncle that she help him settling in in the village first before she went to go visit Adam.

"It's alright, dear" her uncle chuckled "You know, your mother was a daydreamer, too"

"Really?" she asked looking at her uncle.

"Yes, ever since she was a child" her uncle told her.

"I wish I could remember more about her" Elisabeth said sadly as she looked ahead of her at their dapple grey and shire draft horse Jacques pull their small buggy down the stone road towards the village.

"She loved you" her uncle said causing her to look at him "That's the important thing"

Elisabeth smiled to herself at that as she fiddled with the strings on her cloak.

"Ah, here we are" her uncle said as they entered the village.

Elisabeth was smiling brightly at seeing the village, it was so bright and lively. There were people all over the place going about their everyday routine. It was a beautiful place to see, especially if you haven't seen it since you were a young child.

When her uncle pulled Jacques to a stop in front of a cottage, Elisabeth stepped off and looked around with blue eyes bright and full of excitement.

"Welcome back home, Elisabeth" she said to herself happily.

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