Father went to sleep so I packed my most casual clothes , shoes,and my phone I had some sandals and sneakers that I got for my birthday.I wrote a note and left it own the vanity my window wasnt to far from the ground so I tied my sheets together and right as i was starting to climb down lucia walked into the room and looked at me eyes wide and mouth opened and told me to get back in the window this instant. I climbed back in and sat on my bed. She said how dare you try to leave and not say goodbye first she out stretched her ares and tears started to roll down her cheeks, I hugged her and started to cry a little too. I knew this day would come the day that you would have enough anger and pain built up that you would leave so let me help you ok for the last time. I shook my head yes , she gave me my headphones ,charger, and a kiss on the cheek I won't tell anyone but at least take the tracking device out of your phone 'one step ahead of you' i held it up and then put it down on the vanity. Well kid then your good to go you are over my bedroom so you don't have much to worry about and take your sports jacket. Did you get some cash? no, but im going to the atm and then im skipping town. ok well, goodbye. bye lucia , oh and thanks for everything she gave me a sad smile . I climbed out the window and she left the room with tears strolling down her face. I hit the ground with my backpack on and ran as fast as possible.tears started streaming down my face tears were flying backwards blurring my eyes till the point that I couldn't see anymore. I finally saw a sign that said welcome to elchester meaning i was on the border the sun was starting to come up I smiled and wish I could text lucia but if anyone found out what she did for me would exile her and i would never want that to happen… bing … bing… bing… my phone started to ring off the hook the text were from my dad telling me to come back home ,that he loves me ,and that everything will go back to what it was like before ,then my grandma texted me and said that if I wasn't home in an hour she would send guards after me "thanks grandma for being so loving". I didn't care what anyone said. I was not going back to that palace. I'm 17 soon to be 18 and I can walk on my own two feet and I was going to. I was going to become an independent person like the people in the city maybe i could go to america , change my name ,or something as I walked into the next city i see a really cute blonde boy that's just standing their with no shirt on with chiseled out features that made me want to faint and brilliant clear ocean blue eyes that you could drown in, he turned around and looked at me and said you running away too ? I responded yeah. Are you by any chance hungry ? Actually yes i am he sat on the grass opened his bag and pulled out some bread and split it "well i am too and don't want to eat alone" while holding out a piece of bread . We laughed and talked for at least a good 20 minutes until he told me his name was Jacob. I told him my name was Niyla and he asked me if I wanted to run away together, I said yes and we got up and headed north. We got a room and ordered room service after we ate about everything on the menu we went to sleep. Right in the middle of the night someone bangs on the door and says " open the door elchester guards" I tried to run into the bathroom to hide but jacob grabbed me before i could why are elchester guards looking for you he said to me in a low voice filled with anger , im sorry its just thats apart of my past and i didnt want it to harm my future. The guards banged on the door "open up". We are looking for princess Niyla and Jacob Wilkins . You didn't tell me you are apart of the richest families in Elchester I didn't tell you for the same reason you didn't tell me , I guess that's fair I said while rolling my eyes .Open up they said with base in their voices so we do the most rational thing possible we collect are things and we look if the coast is clear through the back window , we tie the sheets together just like I did before and we threw it out of the window and let it drape over the side and shimmied down the sheet rope and ran as fast as possible and didn't stop until I started to cry just like I did when I left the castle as that moment surged through my brain, I started to feel really light headed and drowsy to the point were I collapsed Jacob picked me up in his big strong arms and carried me as he ran i Lost all consciousness . When I woke up I was sitting on the passenger side of a car with Jacob in the driver's seat, when he noticed I was awake he said, I'm glad that you are ok you had me worried . As I sat up I said thank you, you carried me when I couldn't carry myself no one has ever done such things for me . niyla why did you run away? I ran away because my father only cared about what would benefit himself, my grandmother is an evil hag ,and my family is just messed up in every way, I felt like I was drowning I felt like my grandmother did something to my mother i just no she did because she wanted her gone. Then we had a moment of silence like he was looking for something to say the next words that came out of his mouth were ,"im sorry niyla" it was the first time anyone had ever said that to me. if it makes you feel any better i'll tell you why i ran away. i ran away because being rich was okay when you were looking in but on the inside its horrible my parents never cared they just wanted me for the money and so they could show off. I know how that feels living in a palace where no one appreciates you and hates you for who you are, it just hurts. We made it to our destination. He got out of the car and opened the door and picked me up as we went into a new hotel room and he laid me on the bed. you know you didn't need to carry me. I know,but I wanted to and you didn't object. As we sat there my heart fluttered and i could tell jacobs was too i sat up and laid my head on his shoulder and he told me,``I know we just met i stopped jacob in mid sentence and we kissed