Second Chapter Yah!! Hop you like it!! Oh and big hug and shoutout to those who reviewed and to my fellow RPers! THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT!! Enjoy!!
Adam awoke from a familiar dream. For the past six years he had the same repeating dream. The dream haunted him at odd times and random nights. He often dreamt of the most beautiful girl—princess—weeping. No sooner did he see her face than suddenly it was consumed in darkness. The princess' face in Adam's mind was like a porcelain doll. Perfect in everyway. He didn't understand the meaning but hoped it was a good omen.
Adam tiptoed toward the kitchen as to not wake his sister sleeping in the next room. He peeked in at her. Fifteen-year-old Adelaide lay peacefully sleeping on her bed. Her blonde hair was a sharp contrast to his own brunette hair. He cared for his sister more than anything in the world. He hated his mother. She thought nothing of him.
His father had died when he was young. His mother had hoped he would support her in her old age but he never stuck to just one job. He never settled down or got married. It seemed odd for a twenty-five year old man to have naught a bride by his side. He ignored the talks of the villagers. They were an absurd lot anyway! He'd prove then wrong soon! He wanted to wait for the 'perfect' woman but alas there where none in the town.
He poured himself a cup of tea and sipped it lightly. Then Adelaide came into the room, her eyes squinting in the light. She took a cup of tea when Adam offered. She smiled and looked at Adam.
"You better leave before Mama wakes up. She threw herself into a fit when you didn't return home at a decent hour last night," Adelaide informed.
"Oh well then you just tell Mama that I am a man and I don't have to follow her rules! Since when has she ever cared about me before?!" Adam stood up and grabbed his coat. His face sank and was gentle, "Sorry, Adelaide, didn't mean to shout at you, just sometimes Mama makes me so…" The was movement in the back bedroom, "I got to go now. I'll be back later. Oh and don't wander in the woods again," Adam smiled as he slipped out the door.
Adelaide smiled as Adam left, "I won't…" she crossed her fingers as she said it. She always went into the woods.
Their mother entered into the kitchen with an air of suspicion. She looked around with her narrow, beady eyes. Her plump fingers touched the seat where Adam was sitting, "So your good-for-nothing brother has been mooching of my tea…" she touched Adam's still warm cup.
"Mama can't you leave him alone?" Adelaide pleaded.
"No. He's too old to be doing nothing!" Mama said, "He doesn't care for us! He's not earning enough to support us!"
"Is everything always about money, Mama?" Adelaide asked, He cares plenty for me! He
just hates you…
Adam wandered into town. He looked at the baker, selling week old bread, then the butcher, and his stand consisting of meat where fresh cattle wasn't so fresh… He ordered a half-pound of beef for their dinner tonight.
He carried it as he passed the local tavern where he spent most of last night. As he entered the town square he saw someone who he despised more than his mother. He'd rather be home getting yelled at by his mother than face this girl.
Colette swaggered over followed by her group of girls. Adam wanted to leave but it was too late she had seen him…
"Hello Adam," she smiled sweetly yet it was false, "What are you doing today?"
"Not now Colette, I'm rather busy," Adam tried to leave but Colette grabbed his arm.
"I need to speak to you in private," Colette pulled him to the shadows. Her girls where giggling ever so loudly.
Adam reluctantly went, after all he was being forced, "What do you want?"
"Well I thought that'd be obvious, sweetheart," Colette smiled.
"It isn't and don't call me that," Adam retorted.
"When are you going to ask me to marry you? The whole town's talking about it! We've been dating for the past couple of months and everyone knows," Colette pressured.
"We ARE NOT dating! We've never dated! The whole town has only talking about it because you've told them lies! I told you before I- D-O-N-T- L-I-K-E- Y-O-U!!"
Colette stormed off very furious. She and her girls left in a flurry.
Adam sighed, Oh well… She'll get over me!
At that time, Adelaide was in the woods. She wandered deeper than ever before. She heard the rustling of leaves behind her and a growl. She looked back to see a pack of wolves.
"Maybe I should have listened to Adam!" Adelaide shouted.
She took off down the path; not knowing which way the village was in. She soon came to a magnificent gate. The wolves closed in and she panicked to get the gate open, Oh God help me!!
She finally opened the heavy gate and closed it on the scowling jaws of the wolves. She panted and leaned on the gate. She found herself looking at a large and glorious, yet dark, castle. She calmed herself and entered the palace.
She heard faint whispering as she walked in, "Hello? Anyone here?" The whispering became more definite but it was soft.
"Bonjour Mademoiselle, what brings you here?" a voice asked.
"Who said that?" Adelaide wandered into a parlor. There a fire waited her.
"Don't worry, we don't mean harm, here warm yourself…"
Adelaide walked cautiously toward the fire. She hadn't noticed she was shivering from the wolf encounter.
Suddenly, there was movement behind her, "What are you doing here!?"
Adelaide looked behind herself. There stood a deformed woman. Her hairy beastlike appearance frightened Adelaide. "I'm sorry…. I was being chased by wolves and…"
At the same time the princess was looking Adelaide over. Her precious face softened the princess' heart—momentarily-- but then she saw Adelaide's beauty and became jealous, "Silence! You have trespassed and that is intolerable! I deserve my privacy! You wanted protection from wolves? Well you'll get it! In a cell!!"
Adelaide was picked up and carried into the tower by the beastess, "You will remain here FOREVER!!"
When she was left alone in the dark, Adelaide cried. At the same time the beastess cried in her own 'cell', her room that had become her prison.
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