"Rose. May I speak to you for a moment?" Prince Phillip asked, waking her from her trance.
"If you must. But make it quick." She was annoyed by him. How many times did she have to reject him before he would understand the word, "no!".
"In private?" He inquired.
"Fine! In private."
He grabbed her by the wrist and dragged her outside to the gardens. The sky was a midnight blue dusted lightly with a canopy of stars.
"Beautiful isn't it?"
"Phillip! Just get to the point. You're wasting my precious time."
"Okay, okay! The point…" he stumbled for words that were too hard to say. "The point is, I love you and I have for a long time. You are coming of age, whether you want o or not, and you must find a suitable husband. I want to be that man. The man who will love you till death do us part." By this point he had knelt down on one knee and had his finger laced tightly with hers. The scenery was romantic as was the look in his eyes. "Rose. Will you marry me?" She did not hesitate to reply. She knew one day, sooner or later, he would ask for her hand and she knew the answer she would give him.
"No." she replied coolly.
"What?"
"No I will not marry you. Not now. Not ever." Her words were dry and venomous, her expression blank and emotionless.
"Stupid witch!" He shouted, reeling his hand back and slapping her hard across the face. Her cheek burned with agony and she wanted to cry. But instead of making herself appear weak, she gritted her teeth and forced herself not to shed a tear.
"You stuck me!" She sounded shocked, the only emotion other than hatred he could find in her.
"Yes, Rose. I hit you. And I'll do it again if you don't dismiss yourself from my life at once."
She was more than happy to leave him. What did he amount to anyway? "Forever farewell." She spat at him, spun on her heel and stormed out of his sight.
"Good-bye, My Love." He whispered after she was gone, knowing he had just lost the person dearest to him.
She growled in a mixture of anger and annoyance.
"What's wrong?"
"NOTHING!" she yelled, throwing herself on her bed. She pulled a pillow to her face and screamed, her cries being muffled. The way she was behaving was from lady-like but what did she care. There was no one earth worth impressing.
'What about Aden?' she asked herself.
'No. He's gone.' her sensible side reminded.
'But he said, "We'll meet again".'
'No he didn't! That was just your imagination running wild.'
'But it was his voice…"
"Rosemary Anne Parker! Get a grip on reality! He's gone, never coming back!"
Her sensible side had won the battle but the war had yet to come.
Love. A feeling she had never felt since the day her mother and father had died. And now she was feeling it again. She could deny it for as long as she wanted but in the end it would slowly eat at her heart until she surrendered to the beautiful word. Love.
A knock at the door interrupted her thoughts.
"Miss Parker?"
"Yes, Becky. Come in."
The door cracked open slightly allowing the maid entrance.
Becky had been like a mother to her to Rose since the accident. She had helped Rose through sticky situations, sat at her bedside when she was sick, cooked her meals and cleaned up after her.
"I have some upsetting news for you." She stated regretfully. "All the money that your father had left for you is gone. There is nothing left for you. All you have is your name to live by and the hope that Phillip will take you in as a wife a care for your financial needs."
Rose hugged a pillow to her chest and cried. "I ruined everything, Becky. What do I do?"
Everything she knew in life was gone. She had been brought up as a spoiled brat, now, within moments, that life had abandoned her forcing her in to the life of a peasant. A life she could never survive in.
From royalty to rags.
Hope you liked it but I need reviews, people! I want to know what you think. Next will be in a different POV. It will be Ivy's story. YAY! It'll get better. There will be action/adventure in it! I promise!
OMG! Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 was amazing! "LOOK! Undead Monkey!" (shoots monkey) "Mind the tide, mind the boat...dont touch my dirt!" You have to love Jack Sparrow! The funny thing was that I am obesessed with Pirates and so my boyfriend took me out to see this movie. He kept trying to disract me while I was watching it and I kept swatting him away...I cant help the fact that Johnny Depp and Oralndo Bloom are way more attractive than he is. J/K! I love him. But yeah it was a good movie. Bad cliffie but good movie!