I wake to the sound of my bedroom door opening. The sound of nails scraping the wooden floor fill my ears, it stops at the end of my bed. Right after another I feel my mattress cave in as one by one my wolves jump to join me on my bed. I sit up seeing three sets of glowing eyes piercing back at me lighting up my pitch black room. Two glowing yellow and one glowing blue, I whistle and they lie down at the end of the bed. I lay my head back down pulling my blanket up and over my head, to my displeasure I only had a few more hours before my day begins.

My door opens again but this time the person opening it comes into my room, my wolves growl, sniffing the air they recognize who it is and sit up at attention. As for me I burie myself farther into my jungle of pillows and blankets.

"Good morning Princess Elizabeth." My handmaiden viola says as she pulls my blanket from over my head.

I whine and pull the blanket back over my head and curl up into a ball. "I'm not moving." I tell Viola as she sits on the edge of my bed.

I hear my door open again, "is she up?" Helena calls as she turns on the water for my bath.

"No she is not. Lizzy you need wake up." Viola says while she plays with my hair.

"Fine." puff throwing my blankets off of the bed, "if I fall asleep at lunch I'm blaming you." I point at Viola who is now laying out three different dresses for me to pick.

"Yes m'lady and I shall take full responsibility, but right now you need to pick your dress and take your bath." Viola says as she walks over to me holding my gold necklace with a little bumblebee in the middle with one yellow sapphire on either side of it. I turn around so she can put it on me.

Once she is done I walk over to the end of my bed and look at the three dress choices that she picked out for me. The first dress is a red mermaid style dress with off the shoulder sleeves. "No. I will never wear this dress." I tell her and she quickly puts the dress back into my closet. "I thought I said to burn it." I turn to Viola as she puts the dress away.

"I am sorry miss but your father saw one of the guards about to burn it and told him to stop. When he gave it back to me I told him what you wanted and he said that if He found it burned he would fire me." Viola looks at me but dose not meet my eyes.

I take her hand in mine and she looks up at me in surprise. "It's ok, I am not mad at you. It is my father who i should be angry with." I tell her. She smiles and then turns to the second dress.

"How about this one m'lady?" She asks holding up a pink tight fitting dress with flowers around the neckline.

I look at the dress but turn it down. I turn to look at the last dress. It is a light blue dress with flowers at the bottom and short puffy sleeves. I pick up the dress and walk over to my mirror. "I'll wear this one."

"That dress seems to be your favorite. Is it not?" Viola asks as she follows me into my bath chambers.

"I guess it is, I never really realized how much I wear it." I tell Viola as she and Helena remove my night gown and help me into my bath. "It is one of the few dresses that I have made and my father approves of." I say as Helena begins to wash my hair.

Once I am done Helena and Viola quickly help me into my under garments which consist of a slip, petticoat, and corset. As Helena ties my dress closed we hear a knock on my door.

Apollo growls at the door knowing that I am not supposed to have guests come to my chambers. "Apollo Arrêtez." I tell him and he stops growling. Viola walks to my door, she opens it but I can't see who it is. "Viola let them in."

Viola turns and looks at me in shock. "But m'lady your fathers rules." Viola says.

My father set in place a list of rules for me when I turned 14. Rule number one is that no one is allowed in my bed chambers unless they are my handmaidens or my mother. The second rule is that I must not leave the castle. Rule number three is he must approve what I wear. This is the rule that I hate the most, I have made at lest seven dresses and the blue one I am wearing now is the only one he allows me to wear.

"Who is it Viola?" I ask her.

"It is your brother m'lady." She says opening the door wider. My brother Frederick stands in the door way with his hands behind his back.

"Come in." I tell him, he quickly walks in but stops when he sees Apollo and Lowell standing in front of me in their block position. "Lowell, Apollo s'allonger." I tell them, they turn to me before trotting over to my rug and laying down. I turn my attention back to my brother who is now talking to Viola. "Frederick I would assume that you know fathers rules, so this must be important for you to come and risk father finding you here."

Frederick does not respond but instead leads me to a chair and tells me to please sit. I am about to ask him why but when I look at him I can tell he needs to tell me something important so I comply with his request.

"Frederick what's wrong?" I ask taking his hands in mine.

"Dear sister, I know I am not allowed here but I can't keep this from you any longer." He says looking me in the eyes. "Before I tell you, you must know that father forbid us to tell."

When he says this I start to get worried. My father, like many other men thinks of women more as an item to show off than of a person. This means most things that he knows my mother only hears about it after he has told my brothers. As for me I am a princess so he thinks that I must not know anything about the kingdom which is why I can't go out of the castle. The only way I know what's going on in the kingdom is from my mother.

"If father doesn't want me to know of this are you sure it is wise of you to tell me? What if he finds out?" I say to Frederick, he stands and walks behind the chair he was sitting in.

"At first Malcom and I were against telling, we feared that father might change his agreement if you new about it." He explained while pacing back and forth. "After we learned more it and it got closer Nicholas demand that we tell you."

As Frederick continued to talk I started to become very worried so I started to twirl my hair around my finger. "Please brother sit and stop pacing, it is making me dizzy." I say, he looks at me and smiles before sitting down.

"I am sorry to cause you such distress, I just don't know how to tell you." He says leaning back in his chair and closing his eyes. After a minute of silence he leans forward and takes my hands in his. "Lizzy father has set up an arranged marriage for you." He says in a calm manner.

I hear Viola and Helena let out a gasp from behind me. I try to talk but I can't, my brother moves to sit beside me. "Lizzy are you alright?" He asks while rubbing my back. "Please speak to me, I am sorry we didn't tell you sooner but we feared that if father found out he would move the wedding closer."

I stand and walk over to my vanity and sit down. "Viola please help me with my hair." I say while trying to stay calm.

"Yes m'lady, how would you like it?"

"Just half up half down it fine." As Viola does my hair I turn to my brother who is now standing a few feet away from me. "Frederick please go tell father and mother that I need to speak with them. If they ask what for tell them I did not say."

Frederick turns and walks to my door. "Please forgive us sister we really did want to tell you. If I may also say that if you do end up marrying I hope you learn to love him." He says before closing the door and leaving me to my thoughts.

As Viola does my hair I try to process what my brother has just revealed to me. I am to be married at the end of the week to a man I have never met, what if he hates me. I wonder to myself.

As if She could read my mind she says. "do not worry m'lady I'm sure your fiancè will love you as soon as he meets you." she says reassuringly.

"i am done, do you like it?" Viola asks taking a step backwards.

I look in the mirror and see that she has done one braid on either side of my head and connected them. Some hair is left down and flowers are decorated into the braids. "Oh it's beautiful Viola thank you." I say standing and walking towards my door. "i am going to see if I can change my fathers mind, but I fear that I will not succeed, Please start packing my bags."

"yes miss." she bows as I leave the room.

as I walk down the hall towards the throne room my wolves run in front of me. As I get closer I hear people yelling. When I get to the door I stop and put my ear up to it.

"father she was going to learn about it sooner or later.!!" I hear my Brother Malcolm say angrily.

"i told you not to say anything to your sister and what do you do you go behind my back and tell her. you will all be punished for this." my father yells.

I can't stand my father getting mad at my brothers any longer so I push open the doors and walk into the room. my family looks at me in surprise. "mother, brothers." I say curtsying. I would usually do the same to my father but I don't not believe he deserves my respect. "I have be told by my brothers that you have set an arranged marriage for me. Is this true father?" I ask.

My father looks at me angrily but responds, "yes my dear."

"And is it also true that I am to be married at the end of this week?"

"Yes." My father responds.

I take a step towards my father, he watches me carefully like I'm going to explode at any moment. "I am not going to argue with you father for I would like to believe that you have my best interest in mind." I stop and take a deep breath, "I will marry the man you have chosen for me." I say. My brothers gasp and try to argue but I stop them. "This does not mean that I forgive you for what you have done." I turn and walk to the doorway. "When am I set to be leaving?" I ask my father.

"This afternoon dear." He says not meeting my eyes.

I nod my head and saying nothing as I open the doors and exit the room.

When I get to my room I tell my handmaidens to leave me be. They see that I am upset but they leave as requested. I collapse on my bed as soon as they shut the door.

After laying on my bed for what has felt like an hour I decided to get up and go into the royal garden. As I step outside I take a deep breath and let myself forget about what has happened. I find my favorite place to sit and watch as my wolves run around trying to catch butterflies.

As I start to fall asleep I hear the sound of foot steps behind me. My wolves hear it as well and turn in the direction they came from, they sniff the air but continue to play once they realize the people are not a threat.

"May we join you?" A voice asks

"Yes." I say moving my dress closer to me. My brother Malcolm sits behind me and Frederick and Nicholas sit on my sides.

"Thank you for telling me fathers plans even thought it meant you getting in trouble." I say leaning backwards into Malcolms chest.

He raps his arms around my waist and says. "I am sorry we could not stop him."

"It is not your fault, if father wants me to be married then I must do what he says." I close my eyes listening to the sounds of the trees and birds and try to imagine what my new life will be like.