Princess as the Pauper

Summary: Princess Lexi is feed up with her royal and secluded life and wishes to be someone else. She runs away and ends up living with some awesome people and may even be in love with one of them, but will this be like a perfect fairy tale, who knows. Acexi, Sucky summary sorry but good story

AN: What's up doc? I did find a way to post this, but this might be my only post until friday, but I'll see if I can get another one up. I would like to thank all of the people who have read, review, follow, and/or favorite my story, means a lot. And thank you determine artist for liking Ryan, she is a very complicated character and will be in my other loonatics unleashed fanfictions. Also to icegirl2772 for beta reading this. Now, on with the show.

Chapter 3: Escaping and who's she

It is nighttime now, about 1 in the morning, and Lexi had the most dreadful day with Owen. The entire time he was either bragging about himself, begging her to lose the veil, or bringing up random topics just to make small talk. She had told her parents that she wasn't interested in him but they said it was late and they would discuss it in the morning.

Lexi was sound asleep in her room, but was awoken by shaking and a voice saying: "Lexi, leeeeexxxxxxiiiiii, LEXI!"

She groggily fluttered her eyes and saw that the cause of this disruption was Lily.

"Lil, what are you doing here?" Lexi asked sitting up in the bed slowly.

"Granting your wish, peasant up" Lily exclaimed holding up a dress that did look like something a peasant would wear. After a moment of giving the little girl a skeptical look, she took the dress, walked into her walk-in closet, and got changed.

When she exited, she had on a pink top, off the shoulders and ends at her elbows, a black vest, a lighter pink skirt capri length, a little white round apron, and pink flats.

"Okay, what has your sick little mind come up with now?" Lexi asked the little girl with hands on her hips and saw that the little girl was standing next to a rather large picnic basket and holding light green cloth.

"Like I said, I'm gonna grant your wish. I am gonna give you freedom!" Lily exclaimed holding her arms out in a V arch looking up.

"As much as I enjoy your enthusiasm, how do you plan to do that exactly?" Lexi asked again.

"Grab the basket and follow me." Lily commanded and started to head out with Lexi following, grabbing the basket on her way out.

It took them a half hour to make it through the castle, down to the basement, dodging guards, maids, and others awake in the castle. In the basement, many things were stored that had no need be around the castle. Reaching the bottom of the staircase, Lily made a left walking around all the obstacles, Lexi following but having a bit of trouble keeping up.

"Lily, where are we going?" Lexi asked once more, agitated.

"Right here." Lily said stopping at the wall with a cheshire cat grin.

"You woke me up in the middle of the night to show me a wall in the basement?" Lexi asked, now extremely annoyed.

"Not the wall, the catacombs." Lily said pushing the wall back a bit and it slid to the side.

"Wow." Lexi said very surprised.

"Yeah, found this a while back, leads right into the village. Now, I have a question for you. Do ya wanna stay here and live the same old boring life you have been living your whole life, or, do you wanna go on an adventure?" Lily asked holding up the article of clothing she had this whole time.

Lexi thought about this for a moment. If she stayed, she would be miserable and be forced to marry some guy she doesn't like, have no friends, and stay hidden behind her veil no one knowing what she looks like. But if she left, she would be able to make her own decisions and have friends, not having to hide behind walls and veils. Maybe even meet that delivery bunny.

She knew what to do.

She grabbed the article of clothing from the little girl and gave her a hug.

"Thank you for this Lil." Lex said letting go and standing up.

"No prob, now go." Lily encouraged and Lexi did so, not even having a second thought or looking back.

The next morning in the village at the dress shop where Ryan and Duck work, Tech was fixing that back door which broke for the second time in two days. Duck was out on a run as Ryan watch Tech finish the door.

"Alright, all done. Door should be good." Tech said standing up from being crouched and had a confused look by Ryan giving him a really face.

"What?" He asked raising a brow.

"Yesterday you said the door was good and it broke again, you're just making sure the door looks fix but it isn't so you can keep coming to fix it and see me." Ryan explained monotoned.

"(Scoff) That isn't true." Tech retorted.

"Really?" Ryan asked then knocked on the door once and it fell down. She just had a smug look as he sighed and started to fix the door right this time. Ryan walked out of the back room and to the main room of the shop where all the finished dresses were displayed for buyers and made sure that the ones in the front of the shop were in okay shape.

As she was halfway done the inspection, she heard the bells of the door jingle signaling someone came in and that certain someone was Ace.

"Hey Ace, what's up?" Ryan asked walking towards her friend.

"Deliverin'. Currently lunch fawh yuh. Dere's some fawh Tech cawze I figured he was still fixin' de doawh." Ace explained hand a small crate to the cat.

"Thanks. And speaking of delivering, have you been to the castle again and saw the princess?" Ryan asked in a sweet tone and a smirk.

"Yuh guys are nevuh gonna let me live dis down, are ya?" Ace asked following her as she walked towards the counter in the middle of the store where the register is.

"Pretty much." She replied setting the crate down next to the register.

"Ackshully, I did have a delivery tuh de castle today. But everyone of dem seemed in a hurry so I just made de drop and left." He answered her question and just as she was about to say something, he continued: "And no I didn't see her."

"Well, I'm sure you'll see her soon.(Gasp) Maybe even her face." Ryan said taking food out of the crate and onto the counter.

"Doubt it, she always wears a veil ovuh huh face so I.…" He started to explain but noticed she was staring out the store window. "Whatcha looking at?" He asked turning to the window and trying to find what had caught her eye but nothing look out of the ordinary.

"That girl in the cloak." Ryan specified and Ace saw who she was talking about. There was a girl looking at the dresses in the display window so they could see what she looked like.

She appeared to be a honey furred bunny with blonde hair and Ace could see that she had green eyes. She is wearing a outfit similar to Ryan's but pink, with a vest, and the apron is smaller. She also has her ears tied by dark green ribbon and a lighter green cloak with the hood up.

"Yuh know who she is?" Ace asked turning back to the cat.

"No. Which is really weird because I know like everyone." Ryan responded perplexed.

"Well, I'm gonna go see who she is." Ace said walking towards the door.

"Kay, I expect full details later!" Ryan exclaimed as he exited and rolled his eyes, amused by his friend.

"Tech! Get in here!" Ryan shouted to the coyote once the door closed.

"What? What is it?" He asked worriedly walking through the door to the back room.

"Ace is about to talk to some mysterious new girl who's a bunny!" The cat told excitedly leaning on the counter, the coyote doing the same, and they had a perfect view of Ace and the girl.

Outside when the door close, Ace took a deep breath and walked up to the girl who was still admiring the dresses. He was a little nervous about this, the most interaction with a girl he has had is with Ryan. He occasionally talks to some of the girls around town and of course if he is delivering to a lady he talks to them, but just like casual conversation with a girl, foreign subject to him.

He stood next to the girl for a second and asked: "Ya like dose dresses?"

The girl turned to face him, a bit startled but smiled.

"Yeah, they look really nice." She replied.

"Well this is a high quality dress shop. Best and only in town." Ace added.

"Well I guess since it's the only one it's automatically best then." Lexi said and Ace lightly chuckled.

"I'm Ace Bunny." Ace introduced himself, holding out his hand to shake.

"I'm, uh, Alexandrea Cottontail, but you can call me Alex." Lexi said, shaking his hand.

AN: Okay, I think I have done a good job with this chapter. Sorry it isn't that long again but much did happen. Also, how Lexi and Lily look will be on my deviantart page. Until next time, R&R, check out my deviant, answer my poll, read my other stories, I love you all, good night (mic drop, moon walk)