A/N: This chapter is by Soccer16star2015. Please enjoy.

At Marmoreal

11-year-old Lily, a blonde girl tied a string to an already dead spider. She had found it dead in the garden under her cherry tree. It was very large and rather creepy, but that didn't stop her. Her white dress had grass stains from paying in the garden with her friends, but when they had left to attend other matters, she was left all alone. How she wished for a friend her age, but everyone in the kingdom was much older than she and her mother had royal duties to attend to. It was not easy being the daughter of the White Queen Mirana.

She gently lowered the spider down to the guards. They were attentively standing watch under her bedroom window. Ever since she tried to climb down from her window one night and got stuck, her mother decided more guards would keep her out of harms way, but that wasn't true. Especially when lowering a spider down in front of them.

It was just above their heads and then in front of their faces. The guard screamed in fright at the spider. She laughed so hard that she didn't even hear her mother come in.

"Lily" Lily turned around to see her stern yet sweet mother. She was very beautiful with pale skin, platinum blond hair, and red lips. Lily resembled her for the most part except she had more color to her skin and her blonde hair was darker.

"Yes mother?" Lily folded her arms behind her with her head tilted towards the ground.

"Darling, don't scare the guards like that." Lily looked up to see a sweet yet stern face. "Oh my little Lily what happened to your dress?" She came over and gently knelt down to her daughter's height.

"Played in the garden with Chessy and Nivins." Lily innocently smiled. The queen couldn't help but quietly giggle.

"What am I to do you with?" She looked at her daughter lovingly.

"You could come play with me." The little girl extended her bottom lip and looked up to her mother with large brown eyes.

"Well, I don't get finished with the meeting until dinner time, but by dinner it will be too dark to go outside." She looked at the disappointed little girl. "Maybe after dinner we can make cherry cake." The queen gently taped her daughter's nose.

"Oh yes! Thank you mother! I will go pick some cherries now!" Lily ran out joyfully and grabbed her basket for the cherries. The queen smiled at her little girl happily heading out.

Lily ran down the halls, dodging as much of the guards as possible. She bolted out the door with her basket in hand. Reaching her cherry tree she stopped at the guards under her window.

"Sorry about the spider." Her innocent smile caused the guards to melt.

"Aww it's ok." He looked at the second guard who smiled in return.

"It was a little funny, princess." They softly laughed and watched Lily run off to her cherry tree.

Lily made sure to pick the ripest cherries. Only the dark red ones were good enough for this cake. She was so excited to be making a cake with her mom that she didn't even notice the bloodhound come up behind her.

"Hey Lily" The dog wagged it's tale. Lily turned around with a wide smile.

"Bayard I haven't seen you in a while." The little girl put down her basket and hugged the dog.

"I had something to attend to for the Queen, which reminds me, she says its dinner time and for you to be in the dinning hall right away." Bayard licked Lily's cheek and ran off.

Lily didn't want to miss dinner so she picked up her basket full of cherries and ran to the dinning hall. She stopped in the kitchen to put her basket of cherries down, and then she met her mother.

"There's my little Lily. Find any cherries?" She gracefully went over to her seat and sat down.

"I sure did! I can't wait to make the cake!" Lily exclaimed as she sat down next to her mother.

"Me either. We can share it with Tarrant when he comes tomorrow." Elegantly nodding to the servants, they bowed and left. "You enjoy his company, don't you?"

"Well of course, but I wish I had a friend my age to play with." Sighing Lily continued to play with her food.

"I understand." She sweetly smiled at Lily.

After dinner they headed to the kitchen to make the cake. They had a lot of fun and continued to laugh as they made their cherry cake. Lily was covered in flour and red cherry juice while the Queen managed to stat perfectly clean. Once the cake was done, they decorated it with icing and sprinkles. Once they were done they set it aside for tomorrow.
"Alright my little Lily, time for bed." She took her daughters hand and led her to the little girl's room. She cleaned her up and put her in her night gown.

"Mommy?" Mirana looked over at her yawning little girl.

"Yes?"

"Can I stay with you tonight?"

"Of course" Mirana gracefully extended her hand to the girl who took it. They went to Mirana's room and slept there the rest of the night.