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Chapter 2

"The poor dear…" The young princess lightly opened her eyes to see her surroundings, not recognizing anything around her and the feel of the bedding was certainly not of her own. "Oh she is waking up, hello?" Serena fully opened her eyes, quickly shutting them as they were stung by the light. "Too bright." The young girl said shading her eyes with her arms. "Oh so sorry dear, let me turn it down, better?" Serena opened her eyes again at the soft voice. "Yes thank you." Serena began to sit up, when she had a terrible pain in her head. Reaching up and touching her hair, and it seemed fine, but as she ran it on the back she felt a slight bump.

"Hello, I'm Jasmine, the nurse." Serena looked at the fairly young, and skinny girl, with what seemed a piece of peasant clothing draped over her shoulders. "You should get your rest dear, you have been through a lot lately, so lay your head…" The nurse trailed off as Serena got out of bed clearly ignoring her orders. "Um, where am I?" Serena questioned, as she walked over to window, trying to see any clues as to what her whereabouts were.

"Well the prince's palace of course." Jasmine said with a perky tone. As soon as she did Serena almost burst with happiness. "Really where is he? Is he okay?" She added with concern. The nurse nodded yes. "He should be joining us shortly, now if you would please lay down, I would like for you to get some rest." Serena did what she was asked to do, and laid back into the soft bed, as she waited for her prince. "Do you know when he will be arri…" Her voice trailed off as she heard footsteps walking down the hall towards her doorway, one that must of belonged to a man, and they were followed by footsteps, belonging to a woman.

She shook with anticipation as she waited to see…Diamond. "Hello Serena." His silver hair falling in his dark blue eyes, made him almost irresistible, but it had not been what Serena was…expecting. "Oh hello dear." Came a sweet voice, but it made Serena cringe all the same.

In walked what she knew to be the queen, Prince Diamond's mother. Wearing her long silver hair in a tight bun, and with an elegant, if not huge like a house, dress. And as always she was accompanied by her ferret, Fluffykins. The queen never liked Serena, but she hid it, unlike her ferret, always hissing at the young girl, scaring her, when she would come and visit. "Hello your majesty." Serena said it her most formal voice. "Oh dear no need to be so uptight, you can call me mom." The queen rushed to the end of Serena's bed, pushing the nurse out of the way, and there was no way she was calling that woman mommy, while her mom was still alive, and she was, right?

"I'm sorry to be rude, but um where are the others." Serena said suspiciously. Then the room was silent, and no one had a smile on their face, except the queen, who had a brilliant smile plastered on her wrinkly, aged face. "Well you see…" The nurse began from the corner, but was cut off by the woman that stood in front of Serena. "They're dead." The woman said it so bluntly, Serena still had a smile on her face at the thought of seeing her mother again, and the midnight blue eyes she missed so much.

It had only sunk in after a few slight moments. "What?" Serena said with a tear forming in her eyes and a pain in her stomach, but still her face waited to smile, as if they were just joking with her. "I'm so sorry dear." The woman said wrapping Serena in her puffed up arms. "Soon you will marry my son, and forget about that wretched prince." Serena sank back in shock. "What did you just say?" Serena said in terror, did the woman really just say that to her face. "What, I didn't say anything?" The woman shook her head, but Serena knew she had heard that so loud and clear as if it was screamed out to her, in a sickening laugh. "You said I was going to marry your…" Again the woman cut her off. "Dear you are hallucinating, now we better be going and Jasmine will show you your living area, come Diamond, we must leave." Diamond hesitated for a second. "But mother…" It took one look from the woman, and Diamond immediately left the room, leaving a crying Serena, holding her head in her hands, letting the tears simply spill, and tasting the salt as she opened her mouth to cough and hack as she ran out of breathe.

"They're gone." She said in a whisper, as the nurse wrapped her in her skinny arms, Jasmine trying her best to cheer the young girl up. "I hope she is okay." Serena looked up at the nurse's face as the words were heard, but yet the nurse never moved her mouth. 'What is going on?' Serena thought as she heard the comforting words so clearly, and it was the nurse, she was sure, but yet her lips did not move. "Come now princess, we should get you to your room, let me just get the key." Serena made sure the nurse's lips moved with the words, and was relieved, it was probably just the bump she got on her head.

Jasmine lifted up the key, recognizing it as soon as she saw it placed on the dresser, but it had to be a mistake. The room that was opened with the key, was the highest one, like ones you read that a princess is caught in, and that is where the queen put her darkest secrets, but what harm could this simple girl do to the queen, the nurse pondered this until she saw Serena begin to get ready to move to her room. "Can we go now please, I would like to be alone if you don't mind." Serena tried her best at a smile and it worked for a little while, until finally they had reached the room, that she was meant to stay in, and walked in, after hearing the door close, and the click of a lock, she knew that she would know get piece and quiet.

Serena held her hard features, as she roamed around the room, looking at her new bed, and her new everything, everything so different. The only thing she liked in the room, is the thing that to let her out of it, the balcony. She opened out the window doors, as breeze welcomed her to the outside.

She also found the collection of books, quite fascinating, finally she picked out a book of Myths and returned to the outside and sat herself upon the rocking chair that was so nicely set out for her, rocking back and forth as she sat down, holding the book in her hands, looking at the beautiful pictures, and reading the depressing stories of the gods, knowing that her story should be upon them.

She knew now that all that loved her was gone, and somehow she knew that it would be a long time until she was let out of the room, for another reason than eating.

But she was surprisingly happy, to be there, no more stingy bed, now she was on the outside and it seemed as if it had been a month since she had been outside, when in fact it was two, that she was knocked sleeping in a coma. Being aided by the nurse, and Diamond would come in and visit hold her hand, she knew of that, or she knew someone was with her, as she was in a deep sleep, but again, she didn't not think it was Diamond.

She spilled a whole new batch of tears as she thought that she would never see Endymion again, but only in her dreams, as she did in her coma, now she wished she had stayed in the state, and if she only what was to happen when she came out of it she would cling to the permanent slumber with tooth and nail if she had to.

(Two years later)

Serena was now so different, and when she looked in the mirror she knew that her mother wouldn't even recognize her if she had ever seen her again, neither would any of her friends, only one person would find her in her new mass of hair that hung in her face and the grimace she had her face in, and he was no longer alive.

About every moment she would think of him, as she looked at the earth and when, well when she even took a step, never letting him, or the rest of her loved ones leave her mind. Over time she began to blame herself for her loss, telling herself she deserved to be alone for the rest of her life, but a month after her imprisonment, she found three starving cats that had been living quietly in the corner of her room. She never really had the chance to find them since she decided to avoid the room, accept to go to bed and that was not very often that she didn't fall asleep watching the Earth, in her rocking chair. There was one white, one black, and what seemed to be their kitten, which was gray. She named them after Luna, Artemis, and their own child Diana, as the cats held the same features of her old tutors.

It's nice to have such sweet company, after everyone else knew of her curse. Somehow when she was hit in the head, she had been giving the power to read minds of the people she touched. It may have been passed down by her mother, her mother had the same curse, which made her mom, very hard to lie to, not that she tried.

Now Serena had the company of the cat's, her stories, that she was sure she had memorized and the happy memories, as she tried to black out the sad ones, which just came back to haunt her during the night.

"I must have that damn crystal." The Queen slammed her fist into the table, almost scaring the ferret to having a heart attack, as her son stood perfectly still looking out to the permanent night. "Are you listening to me!" The mother shrieked at her son, as he still stood there watching the stars, and the land below him. "That bitch will die, if she has to." At the Diamond turned around. "You promised me that I got to marry her!" He yelled at his mother, her mother stood up walking over to her son, with a scary smile on her face, and as she reached him, she smacked him so hard the birds in the trees close by had been scared out of their trees. "Don't you dare raise your voice at me. Now, you will marry her, but if she does not give me the crystal I might have to dispose of her, do you understand?" Diamond nodded.

"I doubt that she will though." He said turning back to the window as if nothing happened. "What won't that brat do?" Again the queen said in a satanically sweet voice. "Marry me." He said in an almost said voice. "Oh please just as long as that prince of Earth doesn't come back she will marry you." He shook his head at his mother's thought. "She still loves him, though I don't see what she sees in the dead guy anyway." He scoffed, knowing dead or alive, he was so much better than that Endymion.

"Well he is dead so what does it matter? Now sweetie you should get your rest, the little witch has another prince coming to meet her, and you have sabotage him, as much as you can, not that she'll need any help, with turning them off." She ended with a laugh as he left the room to go to his and silently fall asleep, and dreaming of his bride to be.

"I know Diamond is falling for her, and that is not good, I would hate to have to kill him too, if he was to get in my way." The queen spoke to her ferret, as if it was a real person. "Oh and then I have his father to deal with, he is beginning to like the girl too, maybe I should accuse him of adultery, and have him killed, no, we don't want anybody thinking I'm not a good wife, but what can I do?" She pondered this until she found it fit to go to sleep, in her huge bed one that belonged to the king, but it seemed that the king was banished to the couch for the rest of his life.

It had been two years, since the wretched girl entered the castle, and now The Queen's castle was being attacked causing many of the servants to die, and she was in short supply, so she told herself to go get up posters for job at the palace, god the girl was causing her too much trouble, and the queen knew it was on purpose. If only Serena would give her that crystal, it would be all good, but no the selfish girl wouldn't give it up. The situation raised the hate in the queen for the girl, making her do relentless chores, but still the girl didn't crack.

But the queen did not dare to touch the girl for fear of her thoughts being revealed, and she had been disgusted to touch her in the first place, stupid moon trash, all goody goody.