"The royal highness is awake !"
Presley's head snap towards the huge door and it was pulled open. Up to eight ladies walked in while bowing their heads. They were all dressed up in costumes. To be honest they looked like maids. They all wore a black long sleeve uniform with a pristine white apron. They looked like Victorian maids.
Really confused , Presley's eyebrows furrowed. What was going on again
"Your highness!! Why are you walking barefooted?"one of the maids gasped and rushed to the side of the bed to pick her slippers . Still in a daze , Presley didn't move. Why were they addressing her as 'your highness'
Oh my gosh
Was this like one of those stories jasmine used to read back at home. About people that got reborn into a rich family or got reborn into princes and princesses? Nahhhh that's just a novel this was real life and something like that couldn't happen in real life …right?
But she couldn't help but think about it , what was going on . She died and the next thing she woke up in this strange place and people are addressing her like she was princess. She needed answers real quick before she would loose her reason
"Your highness you cannot be wandering around your room like this … you should take a bath and rest, the queen would like to see you later for breakfast" Another bowed her head and Presley raised a brow. Did she just hear 'queen' a queen wanted to see her. Was this a joke or a prank. Who does this in this era. She was so confused
"Do I know you?" Presley bluntly asked. They had to be mistaking. Why were they calling her a princess, and this was her room ? Hell no
Somebody better give her answers
The maids started gasping at what she just uttered but she didn't even bother about it
"Your highness,it's me Layla" Layla beat her chest while staring at the princess feet. She did not dare to look at princess Myra eye to eye unless she wanted a punishment. Princess Myra was someone who had severe anger issues so you had to be careful of the way you acted and spoke with her.
"Layla??? That doesn't ring a bell" Presley clicked her tongue and stared at the ceiling while Layla swallowed a lump in her throat as she fiddled with her fingers
"I-I'm y-y-our w-w-waiting maid your highness" Layla spoke with a broken voice and Presley heaved a sigh of confusion
"I can't remember you Layla" Layla pursed her lips still staring at her feet. How can the princess not remember her. She didn't remember all the suffering she put her through?? Or was she lying. Layla tried to speak again but Belle immediately cut her off
"Your highness maybe you're still weak from all the blood you lost…let us help you get ready so you can go down for breakfast with the queen,she should be waiting"Layla gave belle a side eye and belle did the same , it was as if they were communicating with their eyes. Presley observed but didn't say anything. She had decided to obey them until she got answers. She would observe,obey and listen and when the opportunity came she would run
That was a good plan right ?
"Okay" was her only reply.
They walked her to the shower room and she wanted to ask why they were all tailing her, were they going to bath her?!
"Wait wait wait … where are you guys going to?" Confused Presley asked but they could not answer as another maid knocked and entered the room
"Her royal highness asked for the princess to be brought to her in an hour" she informed before bowing her head and taking her leave
"We have to hurry your highness we don't want to anger the queen" Belle urged
"Ary and Yvonne undress the princess and give her a rose petal bubble bath immediately "Layla commanded and they obeyed and started undressing her
"Woah woah woah … I can bath myself" Presley spoke but they ignored. Ary undressed her while Yvonne prepared the bath
Presley's eyes wandered through the whole room and she couldn't help but stare in awe. It was really beautiful Infact beautiful was an understatement. It looked so mystical…so pretty. It had pink tiles and the floor was made of pink marble.she wondered why they loved pink so much. A gold chandelier,a wide body mirror, a huge tube that could fit five people. Whoever owned this place must be really really rich
They hanged bunch of towels in the side of the room and a lot of spa products were on a shelf beside the mirror. There was a huge painting of a solar owl and a lunar raven. Everything in the room were simply lovely.
"Is the water warm enough for the princess?"Ary asked Yvonne and she nodded. Presley soaked herself in the warm water and instantly felt relaxed. This was nice, having people do things for you. The bath was so soothing, the fragrance of the soap was so pleasing to her nostrils,vanilla.
She never knew vanilla smelled like this…it was really nice.
Ary washed her insanely long hair with another type of soap that smelled so heavenly. This felt like heaven not hell where she was supposed to be.she shut her eyes for a few minutes and ended up falling asleep.
The moment she woke up she was still in the tub but no one was with her in the shower room and there was this insane silence that could make someone really scared by the minute but she brushed it off …thinking she had enough of getting a bath she got out of the tub and walked to the corner of the room where she saw a towel a while ago.she turned around only for her to find herself in a different place and not the shower room. Where was this? She felt water on her feet and her eyes screamed when she stared at it .
Blood
She screamed so loud and fell on her butt. She turned around to crawl away from there only to find a dead body beside her
Presley gasped out loud waking up from her nightmare which caught Ary and Yvonne's attention.
"Your highness!, are you okay?" Yvonne asked. Presley gripped her chest hard and started to beat on it. it was happening again. She started coughing and her nose and ears got pink from the pain and suffocation . Her eyes were red as they teared up and she kept gasping in need of air.
Ary and Yvonne couldn't get what was happening. Princess Myra had never behaved like this ever before so they didn't know what to do , she seemed like she was having extreme difficulty in breathing
Meanwhile…
"You didn't have to cut me off while I was speaking to her highness Belle" Layla acclaimed and belle rolled her eyes
"The princess is sick and all you care about is that she doesn't remember you…stop with the rubbish and let's keep preparing the dress" Belle lectured and Layla scoffed
"And who's fault do you think it is to why she slit her wrist" Layla spat and belle poked herself with a pin out of distraction hearing what she said , she glared at Layla when she saw her bleeding finger but before she could say a thing Yvonne rushed in
"There's something wrong with the princess!!" They immediately dropped what they were doing and ran to the shower room. And there they saw Presley in the bath tub looking like a sleeping beauty goddess
"What happened?!" Layla panicked glaring daggers at Ary and she shivered
"S-she passed out" Ary stammered in guilt