Chapter 4

Amy's POV

It had been a week since the wedding. I was in my room flopped on my bed. It was really fluffy. I remembered the wedding. It had taken forever and I couldn't even sit down during the whole thing! I also had to talk to everybody we invited. They all held out their hats or opened their purses or even brought big bowls for my jewels to fall into. One person I passed looked like he was the best and richest in the world. I just waved to him. Then there were the poor farmers. I made sure I said a lot to them.

When the wedding was finally over I wanted to go to my room and read, but Ian called me into the library. At first I thought this was a good thing, because that's where I was headed anyway. I would see what he wanted and then pick a book to take back to my room and read. When I got there I soon realized that was not going to happen.

"Hello Amy," Ian had said.

"Hi Ian." I said back, cupping my hands together to catch two diamonds.

"Come sit here and read me something, Amy."

"Ok" I said, hands still cupped. I sat down and picked up the book he had picked out. It was a dictionary! I remembered wondering why he wanted me to read him a dictionary. Ian gave me a bowl for my jewels to fall into. "Here hold this bowl." He had told me.

Ian made me read the whole dictionary! I had filled seven bowls all the way to the top with every sort of jewel you could ever think of. Then Ian took the jewels away. After that each day he had me come into his library and read him a really big book.

Now my throat is sore from all my reading. I can barely talk. But Ian won't not let that stop me from reading to him. I needed help but I don't know were to get it. Then it hit me! I quickly went to my map of the town and circled the wig shop and the colored contacts store, grabbed my makeup, money, and snuck out the door.

Ian's POV

I was walking back from the courtyard after choosing a place for my soon to be palace. I already had enough jewels to build a wall of it.

My plan was working perfectly. It had been a week since I started making Amy read to me. It was really boring, but it had to be done. At least I had my tiny scroll of the daily events to read when Amy wasn't looking. Rude, I know, but like I cared.

As I walked, I made sure I had it with me. It was reading time again. Once I got to the library I picked a book and waited for Amy to come. When she did I greeted her with a "Hello Love." It was my pet name for her, even though I really didn't love her.

"Hi Ian." She said. And instead of jewels falling out of her mouth flies did and swarmed around my head. I almost screamed. What was wrong with Amy?

"You look confused Ian. Is something wrong?" she said snakes slithering out of her mouth. "I got tired of reading to you Ian. This is what happens when I'm mad. Treat me better and I'll drop jewels again." Amy dumped the slithering animals on my lap, turned on her heal, and walked away. I called the pest control and had them take away the animals.

As I watched I wondered what would happen to the palace of jewels. Would I ever be able to finish it? It might take a lot longer without the reading but if I just made her always carry around a bowl all the time maybe eventually I could finish the palace. It's a pity Amy had to get so mad. Oh well. As I walked to my room, I saw Amy going into the servants' quarters. Hmm, I wonder why she was going in there. Oh well, I'll ask her later.

Natalie's POV

After I walked out of Prince Ian's sight I ran as fast as I could to the servants room and went inside. Amy was sitting there looking very inpatient. I noticed that she had put away all the makeup and things she had been using to make my face to look like hers.

"So how'd it go?" she asked eagerly.

"Oh it went well. I don't think Ian will ever use you for your jewels again." I said. "You should have seen his face." I almost laughed out loud remembering him. "Anyway you better pay up." I held out my hand to get the reward.

"Okay, here you go." She said handing me a sack that was filled with jewels. I checked just to make sure it wasn't filled with rocks. It wasn't.

"Thank you." I said and headed out the door. This little sack was worth a looooot of money. I would live a wealthy life and maybe get married to Dan, I thought dreamily. I couldn't wait to tell him.

Epilogue

Amy ended up living an ok life. It was a little annoying to carry a bowl around but she managed. Besides she got to live a life of luxury other then the bowl thing.

Ian on the other hand was a very impatient person. But eventually the jeweled palace was finished. He spent most of the rest his life in it though when it was done.

Isabel decided that she no longer needed Natalie and disowned her.

Natalie and Dan eventually got married and used Natalie's jewels to go to America and start a rich life there, getting everything they wanted on account of Natalie and her bugs. But before they went she made thousands of cockroaches and when Isabel wasn't home they put all the roaches into her house. Just as a little reminder of what she was missing in disowning Natalie.

Over all everybody was at least somewhat happy. Except Isabel.

A/N: Yay, it's finally over. Sorry about the grammar. I know it's horrible. I wanted Ian to be listening to his I-pod while Amy was reading, but that would be against therockincookie's rules. Thank you SqueakyDolphin6 and JanusGirl101 for betaing me. Thank you all for reading. Please review and tell me what you thought.