Chapter Eight : Escape

Kali laid in her bed, tears still rolling down her cheeks. She was trying to think of something she could do. She couldn't be away from him. She thought about helping him escape and then they could run away together. Kali got up out of bed and looked around her room. Is that what she really wanted to do? Run away from home and never come back? She had everything that a girl could want. She had a loving family, money, amazing friends, a big castle, she got everything she ever asked for. There was only one thing missing from her perfect life; her knight in shining armor and Mike was him. No matter what anyone said she knew he was her prince. That was all she ever wanted was to find her true love and she did. Would she ever be happy without him even though she had everything else? No, and she knew it. She ran to her dresser and pulled out a pair of dark jeans and a dark blue hoodie. She grabbed a small flash light from her vanity, silently snuck outside of her bedroom and tip toed down the hall way. She snuck down the tower stairs and walked into the secret passage way. She tried to look for the wooden door that led to the jail cells. She was getting severely creeped out as she reached the door handle. She didn't like spiders and there were numerous spider webs above the door. She cracked the door open and walked into the cell room. There were only three cells. Her family didn't normally keep prisoners down there; usually they would send them off to the actual Madison Jail House. She looked to the side and saw keys hanging up on a nail. She snatched them and walked to farthest cell. She peered through the cell and saw someone sitting against the wall with their head down, it was Mike. She shinned the light through the cell. Mike's head popped up.

"Kali! What are you doing here?"

Mike ran up to the cell and put his hand through it towards her and she grabbed it.

"I couldn't let you sit in here. I need to be with you."

"But your father…"

"Shh, nothing is keeping me from you." Kali said and put her finger to his tear stained face and he smiled at her. Lost in each other's eyes, they barely heard the castle security guards coming down the stairs. Kali turned her head and unlocked the cell quickly and grabbed his hand.

"C'mon! We have to go!"

"We?" Mike asked, confused.

"I'm coming with you!"

Mike didn't have time to speak and they quickly snuck back through the secret passage way.

"Where are we going?" Mike asked.

"I'm getting us both out of here."

"You're running away?"

"I told you, whatever it takes."

Mike was confused. She was running away from everything. She has everything any girl could want and she was running away for him. Mike's thoughts were interrupted by Kali opening a door. He looked through it and saw the outside of the castle walls.

"What does this passage lead to?" He asked.

"Basically every room in the castle."

"Wish I knew that before I climbed up the side of the castle."

Suddenly they heard sirens going off.

"We have to run quickly." Kali said.

"What is that noise?"

"It means they know you have escaped and I'm missing! So let's go quick!"

Kali and Mike ran straight for the woods and Kali didn't look back.

Far off in the distance, on top of a mountain called Mount Despair, a sorceress looked out her window and laughed, wickedly. She was tall and her skin was pale white. She had long, dark hair and wore a red long sleeved dress with a black cape over it. Her name was Conswella. She looked to the crow, standing on her shoulder.

"You hear those sirens? You know what that means?" The bird squawked at her.

"That means the princess has gone missing." She said laughing.

"Little do they know, she isn't missing at all. She ran from home."

She walked towards her crystal ball and starred into it. There were green clouds of smoke swarming through it. Conswella moved her hands around it and a view of Kali and Mike appeared in it. She smiled and watched them walk through the dark woods.

"All that girl wants is to be with her convicted boyfriend. Now that she is gone, I could kidnap her and use her as bait to take over the kingdom."

Her crow squawked and she laughed insanely. The kingdom did not know that soon, their entire legacy would be in danger.