Chapter One

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    I feel a cold breeze of the night hitting me sending shivers down my spine as I sit next to my open window looking down at the young children playing and having fun while the adults are on their way to hunt. Oh how I wish I could go with them, to feel the freedom they must feel, to have more than one friend. To be able to go hunt not have my prey brought to me, I hear someone breathing outside my door before they knock “come in Rickie” I say without giving him a chance to knock. Rickie walks in with a smile on his face “how do you do that?” he asks me for the thousandth time making my eyes roll. “I am a vampire, vampires have great hearing, you should know this because you are a vampire too” I say with sarcasm in my voice. Rickie just laughs at me while shaking his head “I may be a vampire like you but my hearing is not like yours, no ones is, not even the queen” he says while smiling, I cannot help but roll my eyes at him. “Come on, the queen wants to have dinner with you” he informs me, after letting out a sigh I stand and follow him out of my bedroom, I know the walk to the great hall like I know the back of my hand. I could do this walk with my eyes closed and I would not hit anything, as we get to the top of the stairs Rickie holds his hands out to help me down the stairs “you know I can get down the stairs without your help” I tell him as I ignore his hand and walk down the stairs on my own “I know you can but as your personal guard I need to make sure nothing happens to you” he says while grabbing my arm and looping it around his own. As we reach the bottom of the stairs I try to pull my arm away but Rickie would not let me and keeps tight hold of my arm as he leads me all the way to the great hall, Rickie lets go of my arm and opens the door for me to walk in “announcing princess Rose” one of the servants called as I walked into the room. I always hate that, why do they have to announce every time I walk into a room when it is just myself and my mother? I walk towards the table while hoping to have a nice meal with my mother, we never spend a lot of time together, I think it is because I look so much like my father and my mother does not need that reminder of him. I go to pull my own chair out but Rickie uses his vampire speed to grab my chair before I could, with a smile on his face he holds his hand out to help me sit in the chair. As I grab his hand I fight against my anger, telling me to break his hand for irritating me. I know he knows what I am thinking because he quickly pulls his hand away and goes to stand against the wall, “so mother why did you want to have dinner with me tonight?” I ask as I start to cut into my dinner and trying to avoid making eye contact with her, don’t get me wrong I love my mother she is the only parent I have ever known but that does not mean we get along. With what happened to my father, my mother thought it was best to lock me in this castle my whole life and never let me out. “Can a mother not have dinner with her only daughter without there having to be something else going on?”   My mother asks but by the sound in her voice I know she has something planned “mother do not treat me like a fool” I say while making eye contact with her, I hate when she does this. My mother is shocked by my outburst but I do not care, I do not want to be made a fool. “Ok then, I will get straight to it, I am thinking about picking a mate for you” my mother says so calmly but for me it feels like my world has stopped. What is my mother thinking, picking a mate for me “you cannot do this” I say while slamming my hand on the table but my mother is not phased “I am the queen, I can do whatever I want, I waited to see if Rickie was your mate but when it turned out he was not I knew I had to pick someone for you” she says while taking a sip of her wine and carrying on eating but I could not, her words have made me lose my appetite “what about my mate?” I ask in a little hope to change her mind but this just makes my mother laugh. “Your mate? You are 100 years old, if you have not found your mate now there is no chance you will find him” my mother says while laughing, I start to feel anger build inside me “that is because you have never given me the chance to look for him, you have kept me locked inside this castle my whole life” I shout at her, I stand up and start to make my leave. “Do not turn your back on your queen” my mother shouts but I do not stop I carry on walking, I hear my mother go to hit me but I dodge out of the way and grab her and throw her against the wall. Before she can do anything I grab her by the neck so that she cannot move “never try to hit me again, you are weak from the loss of your mate and I am much stronger then you” I say as I start to choke her, “Rose stop you do not want to hurt your own mother” Rickie shouts at me and makes me let go of my mother. I could not believe what I have just tried to do, what came over me, I turn quickly and run from the room “Rose, come back here” I hear my mother shout but I do not stop until I get to my room. What have I just done? How could I hurt my own mother? Before anyone can stop me I quickly a grab a bag and start throwing my clothes and money into it as fast as I can, once I am done I walk over to the window this is my only chance to live my life, I stand on the window ledge. I close my eyes and jump out of my window, once I feel my feet hit the ground I start to run. I make it to the woods in no time at all, I cannot believe this I’m free, I’m finally out of the castle, I can do what I want. I stop and look around for a moment, seeing all the amazing things that I have only seen on tv before. I want to keep looking but I start to hear voice's from the castle letting me know that they know I have left. Not wanting to waste any more time I run as fast as I can and try to get as far away as I can. After an hour of running I have decided to take a break and rest for a little bit, I lay down on the cool grass and close my eyes for a little bit. After a while I start to get the feeling that someone is watching me, I stand quickly, ready to fight if I need to “who’s there?” I call out as I start looking for the person that is watching me “did you really think that I would not follow you?” Rickie says as he jumped down from the tree, I back away from him “I am not going back, I am looking for my mate” I say as I keep backing away from him but the weird thing is that he is not coming any closer to me. Rickie just smiles and sits on the ground “I know the queen sent me to protect you while you look for your mate” he says while looking up to the night sky, “wait my mother knew I was going to go looking for my mate? Is she not angry for what I did to her?” I ask while slowly moving closer to him, Rickie just chuckles at what I said. “No she is not angry with you, once you left she said you remind her so much of your father. Here she wrote this for you” he says while pulling out a letter. “What is it?” I ask, Rickie looks at me with sadness in his eyes “it is the reason your mother never wanted you to leave to castle, read it and afterwards we will start our journey to find your mate” he says as I look at the letter, finally I am going to get answers for why my mother locked me up for all of my life, I open the letter and start to read.   Dear Rose I am sorry for what happened at dinner but please understand everything I ever did was to protect you, I did not want what happened to your father happen to you. You are old enough to learn how your father died…..
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