“Oh hell no! He’s trying to marry me? Nope! I refuse! He’s going to make me move over to his good for nothing kingdom and I will become one of them! Never!” I went off as I stood up and paced around the ground. “I’m declining your parents’ invitation to dinner! I will not marry that man!”
“Antebellum, you don’t even know him!”
“I know his people! This is a larger situation that him! I want nothing to do with that bloody kingdom. I don’t want to be his bloody Queen! We all hate him and his kind! Why is he even here!?! Ugh!”
Kyris stood up and stopped my pacing. “Antebellum, you have to do this. We can’t have him angry. That could mean bad news for us. The entire Noq clan.”
“I will not marry that man!” I said again. This could not be happening to me.
“Just sit down and have dinner with us. We would all be there. And then afterward—”
“There’s more!?!” I yelled in disbelief.
Kyris sighed. “Yes, he would like to go around the festival with you.”
“I can’t believe this! How could you even agree to this! You knew I would say no to this!”
“I had no choice! We cannot make this man angry! You know we are already on thin ice with that village!”
“Oh really!?! Then why the hell is he here trying to take one of our people if he dislikes our people so damn much!” I countered even though I knew the answer.
“Because you are the most beautiful woman to grace the seven lands and he wants you! I can’t help that!”
“Why can’t people look beyond my face! I’m sure if he actually knew me then he would hate me, oh wait, HE CAN’T! Curse this stupid beauty of mine. Why can’t I just look, I don’t know, normal? Every single person in this damn village doesn’t realize how much of a bitch I am because they can’t see passed my appearance! Who wants a bitch as a wife!”
Kyris grabbed my hand. “Antebellum, you are not a—“
“Yes, I am! It’s me. I’m raunchy and blunt and sarcastic. I don’t even understand how you want to be around me!”
“Because I can see more to you then you let everyone see.”
I ran my hands through my hair. “You don’t understand! I wished people hated me. Complete scorn! Which never happens! I hate having everyone love me for my looks because I know if they actually knew me for my personality they would all hate me! And I can’t change the way I am! I don’t want to change the way I am! But this is absolutely crazy!”
“You are a great person with a great personality, Antebellum.”
I rolled my eyes. “You just say that because you’re in love with me,” I mumbled.
Kyris widened his eyes.
“What? It’s no secret! That’s why I can’t understand why you are going through with this!”
His eyes casted down. “What’s the point of not going through with it if the person I’m in love with doesn’t return those feelings?”
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Antebellum
FantasyThere was a girl who was born on Winter Solstice Eve. She belonged to the Noq people. The people of startling beauty with their stark silver hair and piercing Amethyst eyes. She was a sight for sore eyes for everyone to see. Her looks alone could m...
