Winning Choice:
1) Mary Hunt

"I have to interfere!" Mary shouts clutching the book of desires that have entrapped her friends and one dear person she holds close to her heart. "There has to be a way to jump into this book."

"Mary, it will be okay," Maria comforts her with a hand on the nobles shoulder. "See Lady Katarina is her usual self unaware of everyone's feelings."

"How can you be so calm when someone else could take Lady Katarina away from us?" Mary asks, looking up from the pages of the magical book. "I know we both share the same feelings for her."

"Because a few days ago we…" Maria's cheeks suddenly darken as she realises what she was saying. Taking a step backwards, Maria quickly panics. "Oh, nothing forget I said anything."

"Maria," Stepping forward, Mary quickly corners the commoner pinning the girl against a bookshelf while staring daggers at the trapped girl. "Tell me everything right now."

Hours later, as the sun sets, Mary passes back and forth in her room, pondering what Maria had just told her. "We made love with each other," Maria's words burn Mary's heart far worse then she could have ever imagined. For years she Mary worked to make herself the perfect lady and one that no one even her beloved oblivious fool Katarina would be able to resist, but all that effort was wasted the moment Maria told her those words. "I was meant to be with Lady Katarina!" Mary, hear's her mind scream. "I spent years making sure no one else approached her and only for someone who only just met her to snatch Lady Katarina away from me!"

Taking a deep breath, Mary stops her passing and looks down at her desk where a hand-drawn picture lays framed. The childish scribbles may look worthless to anyone how passings by the image but Mary could never put a price on an object that was given to her by her beloved Lady Katarina. The drawing is of Katarina and Mary holding hands in Katarine's vegetable garden with the words thankyou written above after Mary helped save Lady Katarine's vegetables from dying. Her sisters mocked her for treasuring the picture, and her maids almost thought it was trash one time but Mary never once thought about getting rid of it. When times were tough, that picture gave her strength. When the pressure of being the perfect noble was too much, it gave her the will to soldier on and when she cried the childish drawing gave her the comfort so she could dry her tears.

"How could I let the person who brought light to my dark world slip away?" Mary wonders as she stares at the drawing. Katarine was the one who dragged her from the darkness that made Mary cry herself to sleep and wish she was never born. Turned her into a woman that no longer felt her sister insults cut deeply into her. Mary was able to become someone who can stand up for herself all because of Lady Katarina's words. "You have green thumbs Mary," Katarina had told her taking Mary's hands in her own. Those five simple words and Lady Katarine's friendly smile made Mary feel happiness for the first time in her life.

At first, Mary didn't understand her love for her friend, in the beginning, all Mary wanted was to spend time with Lady Katarine, but soon that wasn't enough. Mary worked hard to make sure she wouldn't embarrass herself in front of her friend and made sure her calendar was free to attend every ball and tea part Lady Katarina attended. However, despite the contact with her friend Mary found herself wanting to be closer still to her friend. It wasn't until Sophia came around and Mary started a book club with the white-haired girl and her dear friend that Mary discovered her feelings for Lady Katarina was the feeling of love.

At first, Mary denied it reminding herself that she was to marry prince Alan but as she read more and more and found her feelings matching those of the characters in the books she read Mary could no longer deny to the truth of how she felt. Mary hid her feelings at first hopping they would pass and fearful that Lady Katarina might not want to see her any more, but before too long, she found denying those feelings to be impossible as despite her efforts her love for Lady Katarina only grew with every passing second she spent in her friend's presence.

It wasn't long before Mary tried to convey her feelings to her friend by she could never bring herself to say the words outright out of fear of rejection, so she sought other means to get Lady Katarina to notice her love. Mary would give Katarina gifts of flowers she grew herself, with Sophia's help Mary started introducing her friend to stories that were about women falling in love with each other and finally Mary began dropping hints that neither of them is well suited to be princesses leading to Mary suggesting they run away with each other to some far of land. It would have been perfect if Katarina would have agreed and Mary even planned out how they were to escape the kingdom, but Lady Katarina, of course, thought she was only joking. "If only I could have convinced her to go with me, then maybe things would have been different."

"No, it's not over yet," Mary shakes her head redetermined not to give in. "Maria may have struck first, but that doesn't mean I lost." Moving over to the little black book Mary keeps hidden in the draw of her desk, she quickly opens up the book and finds Lady Katarina's movements quickly learning that her beloved insanely dense friend should be heading for the bath now. "Should I make my move there or in her room?" Mary wonders, and she walks over to gather what she would need for the night. "Ah, I know!"

What will Mary's plan be?

1) Sneak into the bathhouse and make her move.

2) Wait to surprise Katarina in her room.