The secret

Hi, my name is Princess Andrea. I'm definitely not a princess out of fairytale. My life Is perfect though, but... I'm always locked in the Palace, away from the outside world. My father being the king loves me so dearly. He's actually not like other Kings I know of that married more than one wife. When I was younger my mom died which made my father over protective of me, I was never told why she died and I never asked. Her death left my father devastated. He refused to re-marry which made me happy because I didn't want to share his love, but at the same time, he was often alone. He never cared if I wasn't born as a boy, all he cared about was that he had me. I was sometimes bored of being an only child, but it was okay. I was never allowed to leave the Palace but I know it had something to do with my mother's death. When I was eight, my father and my personal maid often told me scary stories of creatures outside the Palace. I got scared sometimes but I was a rebel anyway, I always left the Palace without anyone knowing and I never for once came across any creature so I knew they were trying to protect me. I was caught a few times but that didn't stop me. ******** Writer's pov Princess Andrea lay on her bed facing her ceiling, bored of course. She wanted to leave the Palace but couldn't. She had to go for a stupid ball that night. "princess Andrea", her maid called out as she knocked on her door, but there was no response. "princess Andrea?", she said again "come in", she said nonchalantly as she sat up. The maid walked in and said, "my lady, your ball gown is ready, I will prepare you a bath" "sure" she said getting up as she took of her cloth and walked towards her bathroom. Her bath was ready, she quickly sank into the tub and closed her eyes. The maid scrubbed her back as she forgot all her worries "my princess, you have to look more beautiful tonight, other kingdom will be coming, you could get to see someone you will marry" "I am not interested, father knows I'm not ready. I'm only 17",she said opening her eyes thinking of the way she'll sneak out of the ball After having her bath, her maid, Christina helped her get dressed into a very gorgeous dress. Christina brushed her hair and said, "my lady I'm very sure any man will see you and fall head over heals for you. You look so beautiful in this dress" "thank you, but I don't seem to like it", everybody knew her for not being an elegant princess. "you don't seem to be in a good mood princess" "it doesn't matter", she said getting up, "let's go, we might be late". Andrea stepped into the ball room as everyone starred at her, she smiled elegantly and walked briskly. She didn't want any hate comment tonight for it was a special day for her father. Though Princesses who knew she was more beautiful got jealous of her. She didn't care. While princes starred at her non stop. She had to dance until her feet hurt. After the ball had gone half way, she had greeted everyone, she knew this was the perfect time to leave ******** Andrea's pov I walked out of the ball hurriedly to not meet any other person. I was sick of the ball. On my way out, I bumped into someone, I didn't know who it was because I didn't care to look at his face. All I know was that his body was rock hard and he smelled of rain. I felt him stare after me but it wasn't the right time to look back When I was finally out of the Palace, I walked slowly as I starred at the moon. I was finally out and for the first time, I left the Palace at night. I was a little scared but knowing every root around the Palace, I knew there was no danger. I kept on walking to the extent that I was lost in my own thoughts. Suddenly I began hearing sounds from the bushes around and behind me. I was being followed. 'it's probably someone from the ball', I thought I began feeling death glares from different corners of the bushes. I turned back and didn't find anybody. I began getting scared and decided to return to the Palace. I walked as fast as I could but then something jumped in front of me, I turned back to find more. They were all around me. I became seriously scared Then one of them said, "master, what do you think we should do with this prey?" "dessert will be nice" another one said coming closer I tried to run but I was knocked to the ground. I screamed out my lungs. Then everywhere became pitch black 'is this how I'm going to die? Was this how death was? I'm not ready to die. Please someone save me' "what do you think you are doing?",i heard a voice say. I couldn't see him clearly because I felt so weak. It seemed that they were all scared of him Suddenly in a dash, he sliced them into two at once. I fainted again out of fear I opened my eyes to find myself in someone's arm, he smelled like... Rain? "who... Who are you?", I managed to murmur out. I got no response, instead I blacked out again.