A/n: thanks to all the people who reviewed. And thanks mmer. I'll try that.
WHY WAS I BORN TO THIS LIFE??!!
I can't tell anyone the secret and I'm enslaved because of that.
SOMEBODY GET ME OUT OF THIS!!!
They've gotten worse. I now can have no life, period. I have no friends at school, and to make it worse, my stepsisters are spreading rumors about me.
Of course I'm not affected by it, I'm furious at them sure, but you know what, once I'm finished here I'm gonna go home to where I'm actually loved.
Maybe I can even meet Char when I go back.
But the catch is that my father has to come home before I can leave. I made more than one promise to my mom and I'm going to keep every single one of them. And one of them has to do with my father.
Now you are probably wanting to know what the promises are and what my little secret is. BUT I AIN'T GONNA TELL YAH!! You will be informed in later chapters.
So lets continue.
I was sitting in my room doing homework when my cell rang. It was Char.
"Hey" he said.
"Hi" I said.
"What have you been up to?"
"Nothing really. Just doing homework."
"I'm lucky, I have tutors."
"Dang you."
"Yeah I know" he said laughing. "So how's your loving stepfamily?"
"Oh very funny." He knew I hated my stepfamily, he just didn't know why. "Being their most angelic selves, as usual of course."
"Of course" Char agreed jokingly.
"So what about you. Mr. I'm So Special, I Have Tutors?"
"I'm doing good."
"Where exactly do you live?" I said very off-topically.
"In Frell."
"My dad lives in Bast." (I've changed it, sorry. Couldn't have them in the same village.)
"Maybe sometime I can visit you there."
I tensed up but didn't let it show. "Yeah maybe" I lied. I was NOT going to have him come knocking on my doorstep to have me answer the door with soot on my face from when I was ordered to clean the chimney.
"Cool. We'll set it up sometime."
Yeah, how about the fortieth day of the thirteen month at a quarter past never. "Sure." I've been lying my face off lately.
"I've gotta go. My dad's calling me. Talk to yah later."
"Bye." Just as I hung up my cell rang again. "Hello?" I asked.
"Hey." It was Arieda.
"Hey girl. How've yah been?"
"Good. Listen, do you have your laptop with you?"
"Yeah" I said going over to it.
"I just e-mailed you a picture of Char and me when he was here. We just now got the pictures back so I thought I would send you a picture of the man you're going to marry so you can be my cousin."
I laughed. Arieda had been bugging me to marry Char so I could be related to her. I told her that was very unlikely to happen when he's the prince and I'm in a pair of faded jeans covered in grime. Oh, did I forget to mention Char was the prince? When Arieda and I were little she had told me about him so it was no surprise. Boy. Life is weird.
I looked back at my laptop and pulled up a picture with Arieda and Char standing with an arm wrapped around each other's shoulders. Cute I thought. Char had curly hair and looked like his father, except softened.
He was actually kind of cute.
Wow. I'm actually liking a guy. And what do you know? It's the prince.
"It's a cute picture" I told Arieda once I remembered I was on the phone.
"Thanks. So do you like him, cause I can call up my aunt anytime and we can start making preparations?"
I laughed. "Arieda, I am not going to marry someone before I get out of this place."
She sighed. "Yeah, yeah, I know" she said gloomily.
"Besides" I continued. "You know the secret, so I can't marry him anyway. And I really don't want him to know. Even when I come home."
There was a pause. Then Arieda said in an amazed voice, "you like him, don't you?"
"What?! No!"
"You do!"
"No I don't."
"Yes you do. Admit it!" Arieda was getting excited now.
"I do not."
"Yes you do! Now you can come home and marry him and you don't have to worry about the secret anymore!"
"No Arieda!" I jumped out of my chair in anger. "I am NOT going to marry him and have this barrier between us all because I have this secret."
"But Ella, he can fix everything. You don't have to worry. He's rich."
"No Arieda. I won't put all this on him. I won't do it."
Arieda sighed, defeated. "All right Ella. You win. Call me sometime." She hung up the phone.
Arieda and I never fought, so I was overwhelmed when I sat back down. Why is it so hard for her to understand? I don't want him to know. And I am NOT going to lay the burden on him.
WHY WAS I BORN TO THIS LIFE??!!
I can't tell anyone the secret and I'm enslaved because of that.
SOMEBODY GET ME OUT OF THIS!!!
They've gotten worse. I now can have no life, period. I have no friends at school, and to make it worse, my stepsisters are spreading rumors about me.
Of course I'm not affected by it, I'm furious at them sure, but you know what, once I'm finished here I'm gonna go home to where I'm actually loved.
Maybe I can even meet Char when I go back.
But the catch is that my father has to come home before I can leave. I made more than one promise to my mom and I'm going to keep every single one of them. And one of them has to do with my father.
Now you are probably wanting to know what the promises are and what my little secret is. BUT I AIN'T GONNA TELL YAH!! You will be informed in later chapters.
So lets continue.
I was sitting in my room doing homework when my cell rang. It was Char.
"Hey" he said.
"Hi" I said.
"What have you been up to?"
"Nothing really. Just doing homework."
"I'm lucky, I have tutors."
"Dang you."
"Yeah I know" he said laughing. "So how's your loving stepfamily?"
"Oh very funny." He knew I hated my stepfamily, he just didn't know why. "Being their most angelic selves, as usual of course."
"Of course" Char agreed jokingly.
"So what about you. Mr. I'm So Special, I Have Tutors?"
"I'm doing good."
"Where exactly do you live?" I said very off-topically.
"In Frell."
"My dad lives in Bast." (I've changed it, sorry. Couldn't have them in the same village.)
"Maybe sometime I can visit you there."
I tensed up but didn't let it show. "Yeah maybe" I lied. I was NOT going to have him come knocking on my doorstep to have me answer the door with soot on my face from when I was ordered to clean the chimney.
"Cool. We'll set it up sometime."
Yeah, how about the fortieth day of the thirteen month at a quarter past never. "Sure." I've been lying my face off lately.
"I've gotta go. My dad's calling me. Talk to yah later."
"Bye." Just as I hung up my cell rang again. "Hello?" I asked.
"Hey." It was Arieda.
"Hey girl. How've yah been?"
"Good. Listen, do you have your laptop with you?"
"Yeah" I said going over to it.
"I just e-mailed you a picture of Char and me when he was here. We just now got the pictures back so I thought I would send you a picture of the man you're going to marry so you can be my cousin."
I laughed. Arieda had been bugging me to marry Char so I could be related to her. I told her that was very unlikely to happen when he's the prince and I'm in a pair of faded jeans covered in grime. Oh, did I forget to mention Char was the prince? When Arieda and I were little she had told me about him so it was no surprise. Boy. Life is weird.
I looked back at my laptop and pulled up a picture with Arieda and Char standing with an arm wrapped around each other's shoulders. Cute I thought. Char had curly hair and looked like his father, except softened.
He was actually kind of cute.
Wow. I'm actually liking a guy. And what do you know? It's the prince.
"It's a cute picture" I told Arieda once I remembered I was on the phone.
"Thanks. So do you like him, cause I can call up my aunt anytime and we can start making preparations?"
I laughed. "Arieda, I am not going to marry someone before I get out of this place."
She sighed. "Yeah, yeah, I know" she said gloomily.
"Besides" I continued. "You know the secret, so I can't marry him anyway. And I really don't want him to know. Even when I come home."
There was a pause. Then Arieda said in an amazed voice, "you like him, don't you?"
"What?! No!"
"You do!"
"No I don't."
"Yes you do. Admit it!" Arieda was getting excited now.
"I do not."
"Yes you do! Now you can come home and marry him and you don't have to worry about the secret anymore!"
"No Arieda!" I jumped out of my chair in anger. "I am NOT going to marry him and have this barrier between us all because I have this secret."
"But Ella, he can fix everything. You don't have to worry. He's rich."
"No Arieda. I won't put all this on him. I won't do it."
Arieda sighed, defeated. "All right Ella. You win. Call me sometime." She hung up the phone.
Arieda and I never fought, so I was overwhelmed when I sat back down. Why is it so hard for her to understand? I don't want him to know. And I am NOT going to lay the burden on him.