Chapter 1 : A Masquerade Ball
AT THE GRAND BALLROOM
Inside a grand ballroom adorned with opulent decorations. The air is alive with laughter and music. Everyone is wearing their royal suits and artistic masks for the luscious royal event. The pink Princess , elegant and regal, stands alone near a towering marble pillar watching the visitors in the palace silently. While, out of nowhere, there a Black Prince, dressed impeccably in royal attire, suddenly approaches and accidentally bumped her with a domineeringly stoic yet guarded expression. Their eyes met. The strong feelings of the black Prince softened while staring the beautiful eyes of the pink princess. She was taken aback. She don’t know what to react and remained silent.
The black prince immediately wore his mischievous smile and say, “My apology beautiful princess, It is my honor to dance a beautiful princess like you as a sign of my regrets of discourtesy”, black Prince bowed and extended his hands.
Aurelia, glancing up from her swirling thoughts, “Who is he? at the back of her mind, she asks.
She hesitated at first but out of curiosity, she accepted his hands. The pink princess and the black prince starting their glides at the dance floor and the ballroom started to lit up. The music played harmoniously. The two eyes interlocked. Princes and princesses followed the rhythms and happily dancing and exchanging their partners at the dance floor wearing with their vibrantly creative and elegant masks. Laughing and ticking toes are heard at the entire ballroom hall. They ignited with the two fated couple who started at the dance floor. The pink princess is gracefully dancing who standout the dance floor that caught the attention of everybody. Every prince wishes to dance with her, while Princesses becomes jealous of her amazing body gestures that heating up the entire ballroom hall. Everyone cheers for goodness, of course, of the royal events success. While the greedy eagle eyed black prince never get her hands free and feel to guard her until the music ends.
“So, in what kingdom where you from?” the pink princess curiously asked.
The prince hummed a while doubting to uncover his identity or not before opening his mouth, but, suddenly, another prince grab her hands dragging immediately to blend to the crowd. They slip until they are unreachable to the black Prince’s eyesight.
Prince Raven was left in awe. “Where did they go?” They’re gone in just a blink of an eye, he sighed. “She’s amazing!..something in her eyes is unfathomable.”
While Princess Aurelia retreated her hands from someone.
“What are you doing Prince Lowe? she knows that it’s her best friend Lowe coming from Kingdom Hummingbird who grab her from the strange Black Prince’s big hands. They sat at the tables away from the crowd, while drinking wine.
Lowe, breathed heavily and panting because of running and hiding away from the black Prince, “I’m just saving you from the black hawk’s grip.” he laughed.
Princess Aurelia breathed out and smile, “Yeah, it’s tiring but, his eyes have somewhat interesting.”
“It seems that he didn’t let you dance with other Princes, he was magnetized by your hidden beauty.” Her bestfriend smirks.
Prince Lowe and Princess Aurelia are best friends because their parents are close friends and relatives.
They decided not to comeback at the party. Princess Aurelia want to rest in her room. They slip in other way and Prince Lowe go home after escorting the pink Princess.
In the middle of the night, the Princess dreaming about the black Prince, they happily riding white horse, holding their hands and sweetly caressing each other without bodyguards around until they fell into the ground and the prince playing the damsel and distressed. After sometime, the handsome, and distinguished prince turns into beast.
“She woke up with beads of sweats in her forehead, she think. “Whats the meaning of my dream?..who is he? What is his role in my life? she asked in her own fate that left unanswered.