2: the anniversary

Cassie was about to walk out the door with her bike when Helena spoke. "It's the anniversary you know. 10 years." Cassie stopped and went hug her sister

"I don't know why you keep thinking that their gonna just waltz in the door. Like you said it's been 10 years since they left us and we have yet to hear a word from them."

"I don't want to forget them." Cassie knew that wasn't all of it but she wasn't going to dig any deeper in fear of a cave in. She'd leave the digging to the therapist. Cassie looked to her watch and saw that she was late. "Shit I have to go! I'll see you in the morning!" She ran out the door with her bike.

Everyone says that you should never stray from the path or go into the woods at night in the park but Cassie was so late that she didn't care. She peddled as fast as she could to get to the Grill. Helena was at home still and typing on her laptop. On there she wasn't just writing some English paper and it wasn't just her mother's story anymore, it was hers. She was the fair Wolfen princess but her family was taken away from her, they wanted to come home despite there chains that the Evil Queen had them in, and that they longed to see their two daughters. But of course every fairytale has to crash into reality and unfortunately her crash had no survivor's. Helena's head came back to reality and saw sitting on the coffee table, where her legs were propped up on, was the brown paper bag that her sister's dinner. She snatched it and ran out the door and down the stairs. Helena loved to run, she was on the track team in school but she couldn't get enough of it.

The moon was so bright that night it could have been a muted sun. Everything was lit and Helena could see the way just fine. She too went off path, she saw her sister having to carry her bike. "CASSIE!! CASSIE!! YOU FORGOT YOUR DINNER!" She yelled as she ran harder to catch up to her sister, She handed it to her as she caught her breath leaning against a tree.

"How'd you run so fast?"

"I don't know… I just ran." Cassie looked at her sister in wonder, "You know sometimes I think you take after dad a little too much."

Helena shot Cassie a look that could have killed, "Well at least I don't follow every footstep mom took, unlike you." Helena looked at her sisters' bike "What happened to your bike?"

"I think I hit something, a dog maybe, but I think it ran off."

"You hit a dog and didn't even see it was alright?"

"It wasn't there when I went to check it."

"Unbelievable just like you to hurt something and then not even see if it was ok."

"I told you! It wasn't there!"

Helena caught her breath and went deeper into the forest "Helena come back! What are you doing anyway?"

"I'm doing the one thing you didn't; I'm looking for the poor pup." They stumbled behind some bushes, "Do you see that?" Helena asked her sister "See what?"

"That wavy thing, it's so pretty." Helena seemed in a daze she reached out to touch the thing and felt herself being sucked in, Cassie saw Helena being pulled into the thing, whatever it was, she reached for Helena's sholder and saw she was being sucked in too.

Hundreds of mirrors smashed before them, they could feel the glass cutting their skin but there was no cut's of any kind. When they came out the other end they saw hills and mountains that went on forever. A man on horseback came up to them. He immediately caught Cassie's eye, he was so handsome, tall, and had the gentlest eyes. "Halt! Who goes there?" Helena was still in shock, the land was just like her mother described, 'magical'.

"I-I'm Cassandra and this is my sister Helena. Where are we?" Cassie answered "You are in the 4th of the 10 kingdoms. From which do you hail?" Helena head shot up when she heard '10 kingdoms' "You mean their real? We're in the 10 kingdoms?" She blurted out, the man answered her. "Yes of course they're real; you must be of the 10th. I guess after all these years you haven't heard of the rest."

"What is your name?" Helena asked, this entire place peeked her curiosity "I am Jason White. Prince of this kingdom."

"Your father, he must be Wendell White correct?" Helena memorized her mothers story every night before she went to sleep, she could name everybody off of the top of her head. The So called 'Prince' burst into laughter

"I'm sorry for my rudeness but nobody named Wendell White has ruled in nearly 500 years."

Sorry yeah I know I'm a horrible person. I sped time up but I'll explain tomorrow. I just noticed I don't sleep at night anymore it's always after midnight. Oh well More time to type.