I clench my hand around his pant fabric, tears streaming from my eyes.
"Please…" I beg on my hands and knees, not letting go of the small piece of fabric he had let me hold on to. "I didn't mean to-" my head filled with shame remembering the deed of betrayal I had done to him. "Please just-- Take me with you-" I cried out clenching the fabric even tighter.
"-BROTHER!"
SLASH!
My vision became fuzzy, but I didn't feel any pain; Just the feeling of regret.
My eyes shot open, revealing a pink and purple painted ceiling along with a golden mobile with stars and the sun hanging from it. It took a second, but a cold chill ran down my spine as I remember the recent dream I had. I was killed by someone I called, "brother." Now why did I have that dream? Probably because I have the same name as the villainess in a story who was brutally murdered by her twin. That name is Naomi.
I'm the infant princess, Naomi. It also so happened to be that I was reincarnated into this princess' body and had my memory from my past life still intact. Of course I questioned it for the longest time, but at that point, I had just accepted it since being a princess of a wealthy kingdom wasn't so bad. Although for a princess, I was treated very poorly. Often served cold milk as well as receiving cold glares from the maids.
"How dare they treat the only princess of the Astromanian kingdom as such?!" I often thought. Of course, I didn't actually know if I was the only princess or not, but all I could do was assume. I mean, who would tell those things to a neglected infant? "The maids should be grateful that I'm a twenty-six year old on the inside, or else I would be dead from neglect!" I could feel my vein appear on my head out of anger.
The next thing I know, a loud cry can be heard from down the hall. Curious, I attempt to reply, only mumbled words coming out. I felt bad for the child, it sounded as if it were in pain. I made a louder noise, gaining the attention of the head nanny of the castle I resided in.
"What is it you child?' She asked, her eyes thinning out as she picks me up out of the cradle that I had been laying in. "I swear if you need to change your diaper once more-"
"Hab du baebo! (help the baby!)" I attempt to speak once more, beginning to stress over being unable to speak. The maid just sighs, seeming to get the hint that I was frustrated over something.
"Is that idiot of a prince stressing you out? Well sorry, can't help that they moved your useless twin into the same palace as you."
Twin? I have a twin?
Then it hit me, a twin brother, my name being the same as the princess in the story, the neglect. It all was in the story I had read in my other life.
Then I remembered the name, the wretched name of that horrible book that killed my favorite character, "The King's Throne." A story in which people fight for the second right to the throne. When I was reading the story, I found it to be awfully stupid, and I still had.
"Haha well, it might just be a coincidence! Stupid Ryujin had read too many isekaid mangas in the past." it just crossed my mind, relieving me of the thought of my ill-fate.
(A/N: Ryujin is the name of the girl in her past life.)
"Prince Noah is nowhere near as calm as you are, princess. Even if you are a brat, you're not as bratty as him."
Wait… NOAH?!
"Oh god I'm really done for aren't I?" I mentally face palmed from thinking I could get away with thinking my life wouldn't end in shambles. Noah is the name of the twin in the story. The hero. Meanwhile, me, the antagonist has no chance against this cruel fate. I'm sure that dream was just foreshadowing my future.
"Unfortunately for us maids, he's moving into this room as we speak." My body froze up as chills ran down my spine.
"WAH!~" A loud cry could be heard getting closer and closer to the room. As the maid places me back in the crib finding nothing wrong with me, she walks off to grab a silver haired boy with eyes like the sky.
"Princess Naomi, meet your twin brother, Prince Noah."