CHAPTER 3: Powerful Background

Living as a baby is quite tiring. I have to repeat certain actions like sleeping and eating again and again. It's really a wonder how my little patience can keep me from continuing this tiring act. The only good thing about this is I was able to polish my acting skills. I was also able to know more about the world I'm in. Contrary to what I was expecting, this world is quite similar from my past but the only different thing about this world is the existence of my family.

My family is really popular in this world. We are a royalty, having a family with a long list of well-known members who contributed to the development and progress of many various fields in this world as our family begun having contact with the outside world. In our kingdom, our clan had been quite developed in many areas like science, philosophy, arts, medicine, business, politics and many others that is why we enjoy a lot of privileges that we the new generation are enjoying as we owe from our clan members.

Being as it may that we are engaged in many areas or fields, my family is in decline not in terms of power but in population. Many families of the past has many members that reside in different countries which in turn make them influence the underworking of certain things like laws, politics etc. and they also work in the shadows to manipulate things in this world. We are in decline in terms of population because there are rarely women born in our kingdom. We believe that a family which dominates only men will only spell for the destruction of your own family because if only men who are competitive are present in a family and no woman can appease each other and connects them to one another, it is no doubt that destruction will befall on that kingdom. A certain ancestor have said, "Competition results to destruction while cooperation gives birth to development and progress." We keep these words as guidance for our family to not go in the wrong path and that is also why my family is very happy to finally have a girl.

Today, we only focus on business and politics as they are sometimes connected. Without money, you can never succeed in politics and without power and authority that comes from politics, it can affect your business.

Politics is the same as my past. There are many politicians who are men and sometimes are corrupt but not all because some may still have some humanity left in them. Politics is still as competitive as ever, using their influence on the masses to do their bidding and manipulate them in exchange of money. Life and death sometimes depends on who you support and that's the way of politics.

Business have become more globally competitive. There is no one who really leads the market except for our family. Our family today is deeply engaged in business or entrepreneurship. Our kingdom now deals with developing various markets like technology, fashion, transportation, appliances and many others. Sharing our knowledge and development to the world.

Many people actually call as "A family of jack of all trades" and sometimes we are called "The shadows that can push or pull the world into chaos" as our family can affect the global economy of the world. Dubbed as "the royalty" for our lineage who came from the hidden kingdom of Lavendula.

That is why no one can harm our family because our downfall means the downfall of all families and countries in the world. And also we have many connections on all fields as we made sure that we have our own intelligence network and security agency that deals with any harm to us and our business, dealing with informations of all notable people with influence so as to have the upper hand.

Knowing the truth and informations about the world I'm currently in and the family I belong came to be very surprising to me. I never thought someone can be this powerful and I certainly never imagined myself to be the only precious princess of the royals Estrella who hails from the developed and progressive kingdom of Lavendula. We were able to integrate technology and nature together, bringing harmony and not harming mother nature. We have a certain saying on our family and that is "Nacida/o una estrella" or "Born a star" in English. Estrella means star in Spanish so it was expected to every family member to be outstanding in any field or area they choose. My brothers were not a dissapointment for they all have their own accomplishments that they are proud of. People outside our family will only say, "Well that is to be expected, he is an Estrella." What a great pressure for me to reach their standards for being a member of my family and most especially to me who is the princess in the kingdom.

It had worried me greatly through days and months about my predicament. I was not that outstanding in the past, I only worked really hard so I was able to graduate but I do not have any special talent or quality that can make me outstanding. I pray and pray everyday that I would be able to get my family's superior genes on their looks.

They have really outstanding looks, I can say that it is nearly perfect. They all have beautiful faces, toned bodies, fair skin, and add their talents in other fields and they are the perfect models of eligible bachelors. I was getting really really worried about my problem until I reached the certain time where I could finally speak words but I never once tried to speak a word like mama or papa. Only mumbled words but it is not also not that clear yet because my vocal chords are not yet fully developed. I rarely speak or cry that made me loved more by my family and clan because I was obedient and not naughty like my brothers when they were just babies.

I was not thinking of making it really grand but I thought, to make my family adore me more, I will only speak words for the first time in front of my family members in our family dinner.

They were talking with each other non stop so it was hard for me to look for my chance to speak but when it was really getting on my nerves, I cried to make them stop and pay their attention to me. They stop talking because I rarely cry and when I cry, it means something. I was acting on how a child cries with all those effects like with hands, rubbing of eyes etc. Then I thought, now is my chance.

"Mam-ma."And they were really surprised because I finally talked. I can also see my father smiling but it did not really reached his eyes so to make him happy, I also raised my little hands to my father with my adorable puppy eyes and said...

"Pap-pa." My words finally reached his ears and he finally had a heart warming smile that could really melt the hearts of women even if he's not that young anymore.