Another Haddock Girl Chapter 10

The castle was big. Well castles are supposed to big aren't they? The big hall was lighten up with torches on the stones walls, a red big carpet lay in the middle of the room and a few couches was placed against the walls. There were stairs on either side of the room that was a bifurcates stairs with a big painting on each mid-landing wall.

On the opposite wall of the big front door where another big door, guarded by two men in black uniforms. The men stood frozen in place and didn't make a sound or a face.

"Let's get you to the kitchen and you my boy." The king said with his deep and strong voice, which made a echo through the room. He looked down at Nick. "You'll get new clothes and something to eat."

"The boy get new clothes and food and the poor girl gets to work in the kitchen?!" Malvina said angry and looking at her husband with fire in her eyes.

"I will not have a girl at my table I.." "You only want a son, you know very well I want a daughter too and.." "We talked about this! One child is enough!" "What if I gave birth to twins and one is a boy and the other a girl! Should you made her, your own daughter work in the kitchen?!" "No! But.." But what? She's just a girl who was supposed to be sold as a slave, and they didn't even she was a girl and.." "ENOUGH!" Eret shouted.

Malvina shut her mouth and it became in a small line on her face. Jane was half hiding behind Nick who looked pale.

"Take her out of her and I will not have her at the dinner table." With that the king took Nick's arm and dragged him up the stairs on the right and Malvina took Jane's hand and took her up the stairs on the left and then to the right stairs. They walked the corridor until she open a door the the left and closed the door behind Jane and went down to her level.

"I'm sorry you had to hear that but, he have always wanted a son and I have always wanted a daughter." She then stood up and walked to a dresser and took out a simple blue dress.

"I'm not gonna complete obey my husband but I can't let you go down and eat with us and I don't think I can make you my daughter, even if I want to, because he will never see you as one and I can't let you live with that." She said in a sad voice. She stood silence for a moment until she shaked her head and looked at Jane.

"I will get my maid Viona and she'll get you a bath and she will show you the kitchen and she'll get you to work."

The water wasn't warm but it wasn't cold either. Viona, who was a woman in her 40 had black hair in a low ponytail and had dark brown eyes. She had a warm smile and that made her teeth no so yellow as they were. Her blue dress (which has been the same the same color as Jane's dress the queen gave her, a long time ago) was dirty and ripped on the edges and her white apron wasn't very white and she had black shoes. Jane didn't really care about the water's temperature, she was still confused about the events of the day and why the King didn't want a her as her daughter.

Wasn't she good enough? Or was it the part about her being a girl and not a boy. When he got her, he thought she was a boy. And then she wasn't and he didn't want her anymore.

But what made it a diffrent if he had a son or not? He had Nick as a son and the queen wanted a daughter, so why couldn't she stay with them?

Was it because she wasn't royal? But Nick isn't either, well he never said that he isn't, all he said was that his parents didn't really care about him, that's why no one came to rescue him.

Maybe he was royal and never told her.

"You are deep in thoughts." Viola snapped Jane out from her thoughts. She was still sitting in the bath. "Okay, let's get you in the dress."

After Jane got out from the bath and dried, Viola dressed her in the dress, which was a little too big for her.

"You will grow into it." Viola said and started com Jane's short hair. "And your hair will grow out too in no time."

With her hair combed, her blue dress and white apron on and black shoes (which also was a little too big) Viola took Jane's hand and leaded her to the kitchen.

This kitchen was way bigger than Bo's kitchen on the boat and more people in it. She saw woman dressed like Viola and in different ages. The youngest she could see was a blonde girl with blue eyes sitting in a corner peeling potatoes.

"That's Octavia." Viola said to Jane. "She got here last year. Go talk to her if you want, I'll show you around the castle later." With that Viola walked away, leaving Jane alone.

She looked at Octavia and hesitated a moment before she walked up to her.

She stood there in front of Octavia for a while and then said a weak:

"Hi."

Octavia looked up first confused then she smiled a bit and said:

"Hi."

The girls looked at each other for a while until Octavia broke the silent.

"So you are new I guess." Jane only nodded. "Well, I'm Octavia and you are.." "Jane."

"Well hello Jane. I guess you've already seen the king and queen and welcome to the outcome of that."

"What-what do you mean?" Jane asked.

"I and a few other girls also met the king and queen once and when they do not want you, you get thrown somewhere in the castle work and be their for the rest of you life. I for example wasn't good enough because I'm blonde and I talked way too much for their liking so they send me here, to the kitchen peeling potatoes all day." She went quiet for two seconds before she started to speak again.

"I don't get way they didn't take you in, you have brown hair and blue eyes and you're kinda cute, maybe it's because you don't speak so much or at all. You aren't royal from another kingdom or anything are you?"

The question was pretty obvious to Jane. No, she wasn't royal from another kingdom or tribe or anything. Not that she know of. But Birger said that her brother would become chief one day, so that means her father was the chief of Berk. But her mother never told her that, she would have told her if he was. Right?

"Are you?" Octavia asked. "No, I'm not." Jane answer.

"Good otherwise you wouldn't be here. The people here hate royals and chiefs from other places."

"Why?" Jane asked. Octavia shrugged and said: "I don't know I wasn't born here so I don't really know everything on this island."

"What island is this?" Jane hadn't thought about that in the whole time she was here.

"Welcome to Aramore."

In next chapter we will meet Eret! Yay!