Chapter 2 the hidden first princess

Chapter two.

Subtitle: the hidden first princess.

Alice who had heard all the commotions outside was getting tensed up.

"It's okay, I'll see them as requested!"

She yelled from inside her carriage.

"But Alice, your not allowed to show your face to anyone just yet! The king will be furious!"

Lara tried to stop alice who only gave her a shutting look.

"And who says the king has to know of this meeting? I shall only talk to him and hear him out or he may be hostile and order his guards to kill us, do you want that? You don't have to worry I shall cover my face with a veil!"

Alice replied and took a black veil from the little basket she had besides her, gently tying it around her face and then flinging her cape over her head, hiding her lush lilac hair behind it.

She gently stepped out of the carriage and immediately a man in black clothing grabbed her by the arm and held her by the neck like a hostage.

She winced in pain and gently followed him towards the men in black despite the fright she felt, if it were a normal girl getting ambush she would have already screamed in fright or wet her garment but Alice was brave and didn't show her fear in her face.

The men made way as Alice was dragged into a carriage, a carriage that was larger than the one her so called father had sent over to pick her up.

The moment she stepped into the carriage a very gentle mint scent enveloped her nose,she looked around the dark carriage that was fully covered in thick balkc curtains in fear.

"Don't just stand there, have a sit. Princess."

A very cold and rigid voice snapped at her, it was as cold as ever and didn't have any sort of emotion laced in it.

She gently sat on the hard seat in the carriage and stared into space as she could not see the face of the man in the carriage.

"Who are you?"

She asked, she tried to sound not so obvious but her fear was written in her voice, she was shaking and her breathing was as loud as a trumpet.

"Just like my minions have said, i'm the crown prince of Aceland. And you can stop being afraid I shall not devour you!"

He replied her.

"Eeermn... I am not afraid of you it's just.."

"I can hear you knuckles clasp against each other, your knees are also shaking vigorously and your breathing is as annoying as a frogs voice. But I shall not mind that!"

The man said and Alice gasped.

She was speechless.

"I will not keep you waiting here for a long time and shall get down to business, please remove you cape!"

He said, it was rather in an ordering tone.

"No way! I am a princess and i am not allowed to show my face to anyone untill my eighteenth birthday, you can come and see my face later at the ball if that is what you want to look at!"

Alice retorted at once.

She somewhat found the man very creepy.

"Pardon me your highness, I did not say you should remove your veil, i shall only take a look at your hair!"

The man said and Alice was rather more confused.

"Why do you want to look at my hair?"

She asked.

"I am trying to be patient with you my lady, please remove you veil I shall only take a look at your hair!"

He ordered.

Alice had no choice but to gently remove her black cape revealing her long wavy lilac hair that shined even in the dark.

"Lavander hair...."

He muttered.

"Do you perhaps have a birth mark on your spine?"

He asked.

"A butterfly precisely!"

He added and Alice stared at him in shock.

How did he know the secret that only lara knew!"

She had a birthmark of a butterfly on her spine and could only looked at it through a mirror.

"Yes.... How did you know and why are you asking me this wired questions! You sound creepy..."

We replied him.

"Well thank you for confirming it to me my lady, I shall see you at the ball tonight, please excuse yourself!"

He ordered.

Alice was shocked, what type of prince will be this rude to a princess!

She didn't even know what his face looked like and he is ordering her out of his carriage,isn't he supposed to escort her out?

"I presume your lordship can be kind enough to tell me your name. Maybe I could give you a more courtesied hello during the ball tonight!"

Alice said, hoping she could get to know his name.

"That I can't tell my lady.."

His voice was still cold.

As alice stood up from the carriage seat she was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of his silver eyes, they were cold and piercing and his long white hair almost covered part of his left eye.

That was all she could catch from his face as she quickly walked down from the carriage.

With a sigh of relief she walked back to her own carriage still thinking about the coldness in his voice and how he asked her creepy questions.

As she sat back down on her chair Lara quickly grabbed her arms looking around her whole body looking for traces of bruises or anything of all sorts but there were non.

"Come on Lara I am totally fine, but the crown prince of Aceland sure is a very strange man, he would not tell me his name and would not let me look at his face, he strangely asked to take a look at my hair and after that he asked about my secret birthmark.

I am still surprised how he knew that I a had butterfly on my spine!"

Alice complained to Lara who looked at her in awe.

"That is really very strange, why will the sir of the south ask of your birthmark? He must be someone close or knows something about the events of your birth.

By the way he is called sir Gagé Alfredo of the south Aceland."

Lara replied alice.

As she sat back on her carriage chair and her troop rode away his odd name lingered on her lips.

"Gagé..."

She repeatly muttered in her mind as she does not want to forget his name easily.

"We are here!"

One of the guards from outside the carriage yelled and Alice jerked up from her seat, she had almost fell asleep from the very long tiring ride to the huge Mariposa town where the palace which used to be her home was located.

She quietly put on her veil and covered her face with a cape, she made sure to put on her dark gloves as the curtains were pulled open and lara walked out before her, then she helped her down from the carriage.

There were a few guards outside the carriage who bowed and then began to lead her towards the huge palace gates, she had being away from home fore eight years and her memories of that palace were now very sketchy, she could only remember a few parts of the palace.

Two women were walking by them but as expected non of them bowed or even stopped to greet her as a princess or royalty deserved.

As far as the people were concerned she had being ripped off of her princess title and her step sister has being awarded the title which was supposed to be rightfully her by birth because of something she didn't do.

Everyone knew her as the evil princess who killed her own mother in cold blood as a child.

"It must be princess Alice... Heard the king asked his men to escort her back for the ceremony!"

She was able to hear on of the women say, she had very incredible hearing which was strange to her. She could hear any noise even if it was atleast twenty feet's away from her.

"She is lucky the king still considered her as his daughter and not a traitor. I guess he would marry her off to one of his commanders to cover up the shame she had already brought upon him!"

The other woman replied, it hurt Alice alot but she just walked ahead and pretended she never heard anything.

She knew of the circumstances of her mother's dead and had vowed to bring justice to her late mother by killing anyone who had a hand in her mother's dead even if it cost her her lifez she didn't care about her reputation as no one even cared about her or if she were a princess.

After a long walk they were finally in the palace and both Alice and Lara were then escorted to the throne room to meet her father, however they would only stand ten feet away from the king and queen since both of them were not considered part of the royal family.

"Greetings your royal highnesses! I have successfully escorted my lady back home as you instructed!"

Lara fell on her knees at once and greeted the king and the queen.

But alice stood adamant on her feet, her head up high even though no one could see her face, she had no single smile on her face and she looked like someone who was about to destroy a while community.