Chapter 12: Secrets Unveiled

I went up room and into the quiet. I hated being me right now. I may have a great life but all the circumstances I am put in are crazy.

My mom came up the stairs after me. "Why are so ashamed of everything? Why does everything seem not to be good for you? We do everything to make you happy but you're just ashamed of us. Would you tell me I came make it better?"

"Don't you get it; I'm not ashamed. I just want to be normal. For all it's worth. I hid it because I'm not ashamed of it. I'm proud to be a princess and rich and have everything done for me but if people knew that's how I felt well let's say I'd be a spoiled little princess, who gets everything and that's how she got into fancy duel school and to be an obelisk blue student. I worked hard and I didn't use money to do anything. I took the tests, I passed the exams." I looked at myself in my outfit and just sat down and thought.

"True friends don't judge everything on money, even the best duelist like your friend Zane are rich everyone knows it. Is he any less respected for it?" I looked and thought about it.

"I'm a girl and I haven't been focused on dueling, my whole life. I got help and worked hard and that's the difference. No one cares he rich, he doesn't care. He duels and works hard constantly. I sit around playing and having fun with friends. If I start messing up you just pull me out like a ship with a rope on it. If the boat sinks, normal people let the boat sink and start finding the problem. They give it a chance and let it be free. I'm on a rope." My mother looked at me and knowing that she had put me on a rope and when I began to wobble, she pulled me back. I had no chance to sink or float because if it got to bad I would be pulled back.

My dad walked in and he had something to say. "I see you want to be normal. Well normal people have only they to solve their problems so go fix it. You've off your rope and wobbling pretty hard." I got up walked out of my room. I went down the stairs, and sat down across the room from Jaden.

"Hey Alexis, are you okay. I could hear you scream from my dorm." Jaden was trying to stay off topic and ignoring the wobbling boat wouldn't help in float any faster.

"Jaden I have to tell you everything. See I'm the princess of a small amount of land called Vixerdoux. It is the best place in the world for manufacturing anything. It's about the size of Kaiba Corp.'s main station. I lived here for six years then I went to duel prep school. I've never once didn't I attend school. School is the only place I can get away from this fake lifestyle and life normally." I sat quietly hoping someone else would explain the worst part.

"Alexis just wants freedom and hope. She has no chance of freedom here she has no rules here but she trapped. Normality is something she wants. It's the only thing that you can't get here. I'm Melissa, Alexis' best friend who lives here with her." Melissa sat next to then she saw Atticus laughing at me. She ran up, got Atticus, and asked him to share his points on this tale.

"Alexis this and Alexis that. What about me! I ran away to look for excitement and disappeared." Melissa stared at him and pushed him into the kitchen.

"What about you, you wanted excitement and I would say you got excitement I would say you got way too much excitement for your own good." Melissa had corrected Atticus like normal and sat next to me again.

My mother ascended down the stairs and she would easily explain why my life was crazy. "You must see Jaden, on Alexis' 16th birthday this July. She will be upon marriage age for the small islands of Doux. She has no choice in this batter. She tries to be normal but I have to agree for 160 years this rules have been unfair. Along with the other princesses of Doux she has no choice in who she marries." Jaden started laughing.

"That's funny, Alexis is getting married to someone. It could be anyone. It could be me for all she knows." My mom stared at him and Jaden didn't think she was joking now.

"I have no choice; anyone who can beat me in a duel has the right to marry me. That's why everyone pushes me to be the best duelists ever. I try so hard to be unbeatable but someone always beats me; Jaden, Melissa." I sat there pouting, as my mom was concerned.

"Wait, Jaden beat you, Alexis?" My mom was upset and had an idea.

"Jaden beat me; he won the duel with no problems. He is an amazing duelist. He has never lost except to Zane but that was a really close duel to the best duelist in the school." My mom ran up stairs and grabbed an old red book. Then she came down and had it opened to a page. She told me to read rule 606.

"'Rule 606, in preference to a princess. If a boy/ prince who has beaten the defending princess in latigue, he has rights to her, Acti. So once beaten, in order to marry her, the defending other boy/ prince must defeat the boy/ prince that has the Acti.' What does this have to do about this?" I was surprised that this old rule book's rules were still in order I read the cover 'The princess' guide to marriage'.

"See Alexis, Jaden since you two were in a latigue or duel and Jaden won he has Acti over you. You now have no rights to yourself, Jaden does. So from now on if anyone wants to challenge you for marriage Jaden must duel and Jaden wins he keeps Acti or the other gets it if Jaden loses." My mother knew her rules. I looked at Jaden and he had no following to anything said in the last few minutes.

"To make it simple Jaden, if someone wants to marry me they have to beat you in a duel first." I sat there and I was happy because only like a few people could beat Jaden. The person who could marry me had to be between 15 and 18.

Jaden was utterly confused, I said he could take my boat home. He could keep it for next year. I expected he would be late for duelist academy again.

I walked Jaden out to my boat. "Hey Jaden thanks for everything, you know saving me and everything; Saving Atticus, taking me home and especially discovering my secret. I can totally trust you. See you next year."

He just walked over to the boating dock and walked away. "Hey Alexis, want to got to dinner tomorrow tonight. I'll meet you at the dinner place we went after I got out of the hospital okay."

"Yah that would be great just great. See you there, at 7." I walked back home and I was some happy. I don't know why but I had a feeling that next year would be filled with a lot more romance than this year. This year lacked the romance but I think next year will sure make up for that.

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