Light was filtering through her curtains and glass and roof.

The glass roof makes me so happy and energetic even if I don’t want to be happy. Every day I wake up with sunshine and at the end of the day I sleep with moonlight. Everyone thinks I'm the luckiest person ever cause I'm a princess, I live in a palace and every one cares about me but honestly nobody cares about me here. It's just me and my room, Oh and also aunt flora. If you ask me who is your mother I tell you that queen Margareta is my mother but if you look inside my heart you will see that aunt flora owns the biggest part of my heart.

I usually don’t care about my appearance but I have to act like a lady and waste my time choosing dresses and jewelleries. I need to wear something that pleases my mother.

Your majesty! Your breakfast is ready. Do you have your breakfast in your room?-

Oh Audra is that you? Do come in.-

She is the best maid in our house. Despite others she is friendly. She is my age and we are friends since I was 6.

Oh your majesty you look great as always.-

-don’t call me like that please. Just Caroline

-last time I was punished. Queen Margareta doesn’t like it when I call you by your name.

-I'm sorry. Alright! Call me whatever you like.

-what do you want to do today my free princess?

-nothing special. I just want to finish my novel.

-I wish I could read books, every book has a different world and I like to live in all of them.

-then I'll read it for you.

-thank you princess.

-come to my room before midnight

-sure Caroline!

I like it when someone calls me Caroline.

As usual I have to sneak out of my room and run as far as I can.

I passed kitchen and Ms. Esme. She was baking a cake. The smell of cake made me hungry. But I have to run before someone notices me.

I gasped and sat on My wooden swing. It's right between the trees next to the river under the sun.

My novel is about a girl who is mad. She loves her husband but he doesn’t love her back. She kills herself at the end of the story. That’s so heart breaking. I always wonder why we bother with love if it never lasts? We pretend that we are in love but actually we want that person for our own benefit.

I have to get married one day. It's sad but true. It's my biggest fear since I realized I can't marry the one that I love.

I read my novel and finished it. Time passed quickly. I didn’t realize it was almost afternoon. I ran toward the palace.

Something had happened in palace cause maids were whispering something with anxiety. I hope what I think didn’t happen. Audra ran toward me.

-princess I have to tell you something

My breath hiccupped.

We went upstairs somewhere quiet.

-princess please accept the fact that you…

- don’t say anything! just tell me who he is.

-prince Charles. Prince of liz island.

-Huh! CHARLES! Free man.

-he is very polite and dignified.

She continued.

-please listen to me for a few minutes, princess.

The chair screeched against the floor. She sat in front of me.

-Caroline since you don’t have a brother you will be our queen one day, so you have to get married…

-but no one wants me, they want the crown.

-he is also a prince he doesn’t need it. I did a little research, he likes founding new places and islands, he is interested in swimming, painting and reading. He never rejects his mother's wishes and as I said before he is very polite.

-can I run away?

She shouted.

-caroline!

I was so furious but I couldn’t say anything. I wanted to run away and live somewhere that no one knows me, somewhere quiet in forest.

- I just want to sleep and never wake up. Sometimes I think death is not that bad, you don’t suffer anymore.

My eyelids became heavier and I fell asleep.

……

-Caroline! Where are you?

I woke up. that was my mother. Probably she knows that I've heard about marriage.

-oh darling there you are! I know you've heard it and thanks for not screaming and shouting.

I do wanted to scream but I couldn’t.

-please wear your best dress honey! Audra is coming to do your makeup.

-why? I'm not interested in absurd parties.

- it's not a party, just a dinner with king Hans and his queen and prince Charles.

- tell them I don’t feel well, I don’t want to come.

-that was not a request caroline!

- your majesty, are you awake?

-oh audra come in it's late! I'm not ready! oh my goodness! Be ready in forty minutes Caroline.

She slammed the door, it was silent for a few seconds.

-princess I think that orange dress is perfect for tonight.

-I don’t care just pick one of them.

-these orange shoes and that dress really matches with your hair.

-yes I will look like a persimmon or tangerine.

-it seems like you are not that upset.

-I get more humorous when I'm sad.

-please don’t be sad. I will be there too, you are not alone. Don’t be worried.

-thanks audra. Your face calms me down.

-don’t look at me all the time, prince Charles will be jealous!

-oh I forgot an important thing, what do we have for dinner?

-my goodness! You don’t even care about him, do you?

-of course I don’t.

-so let's get ready now!

.........

I walked through the door, I was shaking so badly and audra wasn’t there, that made it worse. My feet were sticked to the ground I couldn’t walk down the stairs.

-princess!

I looked back. It was audra thank God.

-oh audra I don’t want to go. What should I do?

-calm down caroline, it's just a dinner. Please tolerate it.

We went downstairs. My mouth had dried up I couldn’t say anything.

Jack shouted with his annoying voice:

-might I introduce you to the princess of Anama island.

Jack saw my face expression and shut his mouth. Prince Charles was approaching to greet me. My heart was pounding so fast that I thought it was visible from outside.

-it’s a pleasure to meet you princess.

He bowed and I did too. I didn’t know what to say.

My mom said:

-sit down darling!

Audra whispered in my ear:

-they are so friendly and talkative, don’t be so serious.

As I sat down they started talking again, i couldn’t hear what they were saying, I had a war in my mind. My heart was saying: run away now. If you don’t, you will be a prisoner forever. My mind was saying: just sit for now and don’t be rude, we will solve this problem later.

After a few minutes Audra hit my chair with her leg to awake me. I looked up and saw prince Charles. He was staring at me all that time. I guess he understood that I don’t want to stay there.

Suddenly he said:

-pardon me princess

I looked at him. He continued.

-would you like to accompany me for a turn around the balcony?

My mom said:

-oh what a great idea! The weather is nice tonight and you can talk to each other.

I stood up without saying anything. At least I could breathe outside.

He smiled and offered his elbow. He is so polite and nice. I cant stand it.

fresh air calmed me down. He was staring at sky. i thought for a moment that he could read my mind. He doesn’t look at me when I don’t want and he rescued me when I wanted to leave that room.

-I thought you would like to leave that room so I offered you a walk, im sorry if I made you awkward. I wanted to help.

I talked for the first time.

-no you're right, I wanted to leave. I needed fresh air. Thank you.

I forced a smile.

-I've heard that you don’t want to get married.

I wanted him to hate me, to run and never comeback again. So I said:

-it's true. I don’t want to get married, especially when I don’t know anything about that man and he's came out of nowhere.

-I don’t wanted too but I can't reject my mother and break her heart. I think some people find love after marriage.

-I don’t call it love when someone is forced to love someone else.

-please tolerate us for a week, then I will make an excuse like we don’t match or something else.

-what? Then people will think you rejected me and they will make fun of me.

- so you can tell your parents that we don’t match.

-oh I can't. They wont accept it.

He smiled.

-then what are we supposed to do?

-I don’t know. Let's just go back to the room.

My parents and his were talking and laughing like they don’t even care about us, like we are toys and they can do whatever they want to us. At least I know that Charles don’t want to get married too.

Night passed too slow and it was killing me but Charles seemed so calm and relax. How can someone be so patient and polite at the same time?

Finally the party was over and everywhere was silent.

-they are in the room above my room. i can't hear anything it seems like they are asleep and im overthinking here but he is sleeping. I wish I could punch him in face.

I wanted to read a novel but I was so exhausted so I fell asleep.

I woke up with the sound of rain tapping on my glass roof. The sky was grieving for me. I wanted to walk in rain so I decided to sneak out again like always but someone knocked the door.

-princess it's me, audra

-come in audra

-good morning princess. I know you are going to sneak out so I wanted to tell you that he is awake and walking in corridor. Unfortunately He is an early bird.

-then what should I do?

- he doesn’t pay attention to others. You can hide behind me.

She opened the door and I bend down and hide behind her we went downstairs and I ran as fast as my legs allowed. she waved at me and smiled. Im very lucky to have a friend like her in my life.

I was talking to myself. I do this often when I'm nervous.

-I'm sure that he can read minds, cause I was praying and said please don’t look at me then suddenly he stopped walking and turned away. That’s weird.

I wanted to feel the rain on my skin so I took off my shoes and walked with my bare foot. It felt like I was walking in sea.

-oh I miss north beach but it's too far from here and I can't run to get there I need a horse.

I was talking loudly and jumping on cobble stones, suddenly I dropped my books.

-oh God! NO! damn it!

Someone picked up one of my books. I looked up. It was Charles.

-let me help you princess.

He picked all of my books and said:

-you can't use them anymore. I think I have some of them in my library. Please feel free to use them, just tell me the book's name.

-thanks but I have read them before. I don’t need them anymore.

-anyways just tell me if you wanted a book.

-thanks.

- why are you walking with your bare feet?

- I don’t know, I was bored.

- did you know that you're going to come to our island next week?

-what? Who told you? Why?

-my mom told me that queen Margareta recommended this last night and everyone agreed.

-everyone except me! That’s ridiculous.

-our island is so beautiful, you wont regret it!