The Snow White of Fair…
Chapter One: The Wish
Once upon a time, in a kingdom not so far away from here, lived a rich king and is beautiful queen. The king was a strong and mighty ruler and his wife was his equal in every way. The royal couple had everything their hearts desired. Everything, but one. A daughter.
On a beautiful winter day, when a soft layer of snow surrounded the quiet castle, the queen Emily, for thus was her name, found herself reading the guest list for the next ball her and her husband were going to throw. As she turned the pages, she cut herself. So as not to stain the precious carpet of the room, she opened the window next to her and let the few drops of her crimson blood fall on the pure immaculate snow.
As she looked down, the young queen found herself wishing for one moment that she had a daughter with skin as fair as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as dark as the ebony windowsill.
On a sweet and cold April day, her wish was granted as she gave birth to a daughter. That day a fairy heard the baby cries and saw her clear fair skin and decided to give the gift of snow to the princess that would be known as Lorelai.
Chapter Two: Deep into the Wood
As years passed, the princess grew up to be more and more beautiful. Until at the age of seven, the child was the equal to her mother's beauty.
Sadly as years passed, the princess also grew more and more apart from her mother for they were born with the same stubbornness and as much as the princess wanted to grow to be independent her mother wanted her to remain a child.
Each day the castle resonated with their quarrels and each day the queen grew more tired of them.
On the princess seventh summer, the attractive queen begged her husband to send their daughter away for the summer. She had planned on them visiting Europe that summer and Lorelai was yet too young to travel with them.
The king Richard loved his daughter very much, but he was a very distant father and saw no evil in sending her away.
They both knew their daughter would never agree to this. That is why they asked their driver Hunter Smith to help them. Like everyone that had ever stayed at the castle long enough to know the little girl, Hunter had liked her very much although he found her bolt manners quiet strange for the heiress of such a great fortune. The old driver knew that the princess trusted him for he was the only servant she had had the chance to know. Her mother having the habit of changing maids and governess too often for the child to attach herself. That is why he very reluctantly agreed to her parents shame to deceive her. He had to drive the girl to a very respectable summer camp without her knowledge.
And so he did as he was asked. As he drove Lorelai looked at the road. They went past many little towns. The last one they saw was named Stars-Hollow. The child laughed as she noticed one of the small town citizens being chase by a dog. Years later she would have forgotten that place.
When he drove to a stop Hunter turned around and looked at the princess. He never forgot the look the little girl gave him when she realized she had been trapped. A look that told him he had ripped her heart out for she had trusted him and he had abused her childish naïveté. To this day, he swears there was something wrong with the child for she had no child eyes when she looked at him. And all he could find to answer her pitiful look was:
"Just run a little. You never know. You might enjoy being free of your parents for a little while."
And so she did.
