Hey wonderful people who took the time to check out my FIRST CHAPTER STORY! I have no idea how long this story will be and if people leave negative reviews or just don't review I may just not update anymore (YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED). Anyways I hope you all like it, it's different from the book, and on that note I will interrupt this with a short DISCLAIMER_ I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE ORIGINAL CHARACTERS THOSE BELONG TO THE WONDERFUL AND BRILLIANT KIERA CASS OTHER CHARACTERS SUCH AS THE DOG AND THE SELECTED ARE MINE, SO IS THE PLOT. Back to the scheduled program, I ask you to review to let me know what you think, and what improvements I can make. But I won't keep you all waiting any longer, here is the first chapter!
Chapter 1:
"No! I won't go through with this just so Ahren won't have to suffer the embarrassment alone!" I couldn't believe it. Just a month ago I'd overheard mom and and the advisor talking about Ahren being the prize for the selection and having to choose a wife. At the time I had laughed about it, but now Mom and Dad were telling me I was to do it too. I was outraged. In my room I was starting to pace around, looking at the paintings Aunt May and I had done together, I was looking anywhere but at my parents, trying to come up with a better argument than "Its not fair!", I already knew Dad's answer to that, his infamous "Life's not fair speech". I'd always known my life would be full of sacrifices because I was royal, it was part of my duty as a member of the royal family and possible heiress to the throne and next queen. I wanted to be queen, without a doubt, but I hadn't expected the sacrificing would start so early. Mom and Dad shared a look, nodded and Dad spoke. "Eadlyn, you've never shirked your duties and this is one of those things that comes with this job and-"
I cut him off, too upset to listen and care what they had to say." Then maybe I don't want this job, and I don't want anymore civic duties, and I don't want the responsibility of making everybody happy with the country and me as their queen!" I was lying and they knew it. Being queen of Illeá was all I had ever dreamed about. Most little girls dreamed about being a ballerina and a princess, I was already both and what I wanted the most in the entire universe was to be Queen and make this country even better than Mom and Dad already did make it.
Now Mom was angry. "Eadlyn Rose Schreave! Even if what you said, you truly felt, you know that is not an option for you." She lowered her voice and came to hug me, I wanted to move away but her hugs were one of the best in the world and made life a bit brighter. Dad beamed at how tender she could be even as a red head and a spitfire, (as he called her). We sat down on my bed and holding my hand she took a deep breath. "Eadlyn honey, you were born into this world only a minute before your brother, it was your father and I's duty to have you." I glanced down and traced the pink flowers that were embroidered into my cream silk comforter with my free hand. She tipped her head down to meet my eyes and continued. " But it wasn't only our duty, and we weren't forced, we wanted to have children, and we love every minute we received for having you and your brother" She patted her abdomen where there was the slightest bump that you would see only if you were looking closely, and smiled "And now were are blessed enough to have another." I loved that I would have another sibling, one that I could help take care of, but I was still upset. I grumbled "I see where you're going, but that's not a fair comparison, you wanted to have children, I don't want to be made into some weekly entertainment for the public, I want to find love in my own time and in my own turn." Father intervened " That was a nice diplomatic answer Eady, objective, yet firm in your own beliefs." Ugh he just wanted to compliment me to soften me up. Well, I wasn't going to fall for it. Mom smiled lovingly at him and turned back to me. " I'm only saying, Yes it's your duty as Princess to do this but maybe, even as opposed to it as you are now, you will appreciate the experience, only the Lord knows what I would have done if my own mom hadn't paid me to enter the selection, I would never have had the chance to fall in love with your father." I pulled my head away from her shoulder gaping, I had no idea she had been so reluctant to be in the Selection. She was serious, but Dad seeking my stricken expression burst out laughing. He had an awkward shaking, and wheezing laugh that turned into a knee-slapping one. "Maxon!" Mom shrieked. "It's not funny." And like a five year old, she huffed and crossed her arms. Dad got control of himself and was wiping away tears from his eyes. Sheesh, if I laughed like like I think Dad would have had me beheaded, it's so bad, I thought to myself. He walked around to her and hugged her.
" I'm sorry my dear." I smirked remembering how Mom irrationally hated that endearment. He was smiling too, and I thought how funny it was that he was about have his butt kicked by mom and he knew it. He was waiting for it to happen. Surprisingly Mom didn't get upset, instead she grinned and cheekily reprimanded him. "What did I tell you about calling me 'My Dear'?" He scratched his head as if he was trying to remember, like she didn't say it everyday. " I should only call you that on wednesdays." She laughed and brazenly chucked him on the chin. " You're breaking a lot of rules, Your Majesty" His eyes brightened with an impish glint and said "You're my wife and the Queen, you can just pardon me." I let my parents have their moment, God knew they didn't have enough time to be silly with all the stress of running a country and I didn't begrudge their love. but I was still shell shocked at the bomb Mom dropped on me about her selection, I was impatient and wanted answers. "Ahem." They gooflishly looked at me seeming to come back to reality but still giggly and happy. Mom laughed musically, like a bell, and responded to my tactful non-question. "It's true, I didn't want to be Queen or even put my name in. I only did because my mom paid me off and Aspen convinced me to just try, for him. I was surprised I had been selected but your grandmother was ecstatic, she kept going on and on about how I was so beautiful, that I would capture the prince's heart, and would make a wonderful Queen. It was like she was already planning my marriage to your father before I even met him. I was terrified and mad and hurt but I went along with it, because I didn't want to be home either." I nodded understanding her reluctance, General Aspen Ledger was my Godfather today, but twenty years ago if Mom hadn't been selected he could have been my biological father. She started gushing " But look at what that choice, however unwilling I was in the beginning, has lead to. A wonderful, loving husband, two beautiful children with another one on the way, and the ability to make Illeá a better nation."
I thought about what she'd said. She had never wanted to be a part of the selection and hadn't even considered entering her name
until she was practically forced to, probably, to be able to give her family money if she was selected.
I might hate the idea of being entertainment for the people but maybe I could run the selection in such a way that it was taken seriously
by everybody. I looked back at my parents, whom seemed to be holding their breaths waiting for me to say something. I took a deep
breath, straightened my back into perfect posture like a princess accepting this was a sacrifice I had to make and said: "Okay, I
concede, this just may work."
Hey so that way chapter one, Eadlyn is difficult to wrap my head around, it's much easier to write in Maxon's or America's POV, but hey, I tried. Tell me what you all think by reviewing. If I get good reviews I'll update! (BLACKMAIL) Anyways I'm going to go eat cake and reread City of Bones again, I love Jace Wayland/Lightwood/Herondale and Clary Fray/Fairchild, but I think I love Will Herondale more, if you have read The Mortal Instrument Series but not The Infernal Devices go read it now! IT'S BETTER THAN TMI! I SWEAR TO ON THE ANGEL. (see what I did there?) Adios Amigos.