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Chapter 1: News

Mother and father were arguing in their corridor. This would be the final battle, I thought to myself. Not a sword type battle like what the country was dealing with right now, but their ongoing argument of where I'd be sent too.

For a duchess and duke to be acting in such childlike behavior that my parents were partaking in was highly improper, but the topic was a stressed one. Pirates were beginning to overpower the seas, and London's harbors were becoming a 'favorite spot' to say the least. King James has become very adamant about their treason; I'd find it saddening if the pirates weren't lower then earth scum. They are cruel beings, greedily seeking out gold, trying to satisfy their lusts. They once burned down a whole village south of the Atlantic.

Father is a close friend of the king, and the king has given him advice to send all that is dear to him away until this mess is sorted out. Father took this to extremes, and is sending me to my Aunt Sophia in the United Kingdom. You see I'd be okay with this, but Aunt Sophia has a adopted boy just a year older than myself, 19, named Sir Jacob who thinks he has the looks of a Greek God, and thinks I'm in love with him. He's revolting, and yet every girl in that town drools over him. The only reason Mother objects is because it's 'Fathers side of the family and not hers' but as always father will win, so right now I'm packing my things. My Spanish maid Angelica was alongside me cleaning up the clothes I'd thrown to the ground that I decided were going to stay here.

"It won't be that bad"

I gave her a side long glance. "You don't know Jacob"

"That dashing fellow?"

I rolled my eyes

"He fancies you, you know, couldn't stop starring at the last suitors' ball your father threw" she continued

I threw a corset in the 3rd bag and under my breath replied "I'm sure he's 'fancied' every girl around"

Angelica tisked "You shouldn't be so judgmental maybe he'll turn out"

I scoffed "Yea, out of a girl's bed"

She gave me a scrutinizing look before replying "Watch your mouth missy, you know it's not proper to be talking down on those higher up then you"

She was right of course, and I never would have spoken a word against him infront of my parents, at least not so outrageously but I rolled my eyes anyway. I continued packing taking a dress from the closet. It was deep maroon, with a not too dipped V-neck with lace. The sleeves were to the elbow, lace dangling. The dress was tight around the curves of my top half, but waved on the out of the skirt. It was an alluring dress; I put it to me, and calculated myself in the mirror.

My mid back rich brown hair fell serenely around me, it was perfectly curly not frizzed or waved, that curl that everyone spent hours trying to create. I'd gotten envy by multiple girls because I was told I had most misty caramel eyes, they were said to be beautifully haunting. I had a nicely shaped face with well-proportioned features; my eyes were bigger than everyone else's, but that was a good thing.

I have well-toned features, I'm 5'6, with a tiny waist and flattering curves. Mother tells me I have a line of suitors, but I always turn them down. All guys want to do is get in good with a 'hot' rich girl. It was like a bidding, fathers been pushing me to choose between a few rich suitors. They've bribed him to the point, that I'm considered a prize. It's frustrating, but mother always says that's just how it is. I think that's part of fathers plan in sending me to Aunt Sophia, she's (as hard as it is to be) higher up on the scale then we are, and usually through marriage comes money.

Father and mother have been trying to convince me that Jacob is wonderful; father says he approves of him very much. I'm guessing if I don't fathers going to decide who I'm going to marry. Everything will be chosen for me; even now I'm afraid it's too late. Mothers been talking about how my wedding will be, as if its next month. My life is basically set out on a path that was not my decision. Joy.

I noticed as Angelica left the room, probably caring on with the rest of her morning choirs. I couldn't help the sigh the left my lips. I was going to miss her, even though we were never extremely close she was the only person I could confided in freely the closest thing I had to a sister or a friend for that matter. The rest of the young women around my age were to up tight and too stuck on all traditions of the day. They had no originality. You would think that they had some opinions on anything besides clothing but they didn't, and they didn't want to. They were fine on letting the men not just run their lives but their opinions too.

It was one thing to be well mannered, well spoken, and cautious to speak not because you were afraid to but because you had the curtsey to not offend those higher up then you. A smart woman learned to hold her tongue but let her mind run. Of course I wasn't always a smart girl I seem to have a hard time keeping my mouth shut. But I am better than the young ladies that surround me who were pleased to be just a trinket for their husbands to drag around and show to their friends. A trinket was the perfect word, pretty, silent, and brainless.

I shook my head of the thoughts sighing again; maybe it would be better in the new world. I thought to myself as I finished the last of my packing.

"You're already packed?" Mother glanced at the bags on my bed.

I nodded "No point in denying the inevitable."

Mother wrapped her arms around me. "Oh dear, it won't be that bad, the trip is a couple weeks"

I pulled away "I'm not talking about traveling, it's living with them"

Mother nodded "Well, I'm happy that Jacob will be there," she smiled obviously she had gotten over the fact that he wasn't her side of the family "He's actually coming over this evening."

I shuddered Ugh! "why?"

Mother looked at me confused. "To spend time with you of course, he came all the way over from New England, just to make sure your boat ride there isn't boring"

I groaned, of course he did. "So why is he coming two days early?"

Mother raised her eyebrows "Your father invited him to spend the weekend; he wants to get to know his soon to be son in law." She said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

A loud crashing sound banged down the hall at that moment, effectively ending our consversation. Mothers spun around growling under her breath to see what had happened this time. Ranting about something like her have to fix everything.

I scoffed under my breath, like my mother could fix a broken finger nail, she was much to air headed. With out Angelica this house would be torn apart in two seconds. Thoughts of my Spanish maid only reminded me of my pending departure and thought of my new life, with that pig Jacob.

I had a sudden urge to throw something. But I resisted and breathed in a few deep calming breaths.

Yea, my whole life was being played out before me.

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