Hitting rock bottom

The prince instructed me to go with Aracely until the princess selection. I didn't approve of it nor did I want to go anywhere with her but I had no choice but to obey. The man threatened to dig my heart out of my chest with his nails if I refused to listen to him. I agreed to go with this girl only out of fear for my own life.

She is away so fast as though she is trying to lose me in this forest. If I could I would bury her here and leave but then the prince would kill me. I mean what is special about her that he even likes. She is just a beast with pointy ears, how can he look at her when a pure beauty like me is around. I am fairer than her, light-skinned and beautiful. Not to mention I don't look like an animal and yet he likes her. I can't explain the bitterness I feel thinking that the prince likes this elf-like girl.

"What is your name?" she asked me and I ignored her. Even her voice is rough while mine is so sweet and melodic. I just can't see what the prince might see in her.

"I asked you a question. Can you not hear?" she asked insulating that I am deaf. I am busy thinking of a reason to justify the prince being blind and she is asking me if I am deaf. I wish I was deaf then I wouldn't have to listen to her ugly voice talk to me.

"Are you ignoring me?" she asked again I ignore her. But I am glad she gets the him that I don't want to talk to her and if possible I wouldn't want to see her either.

"How do you know Theo?" she inquires and I raise my eyebrows wondering who this Theo is. "How do you know the prince?" she rephrased knowing that she confused me with her question the first time. But the chatterbox has made herself useful to me because now I got to learn the name of that evil male.

"Theo," I said testing how his name felt on my tongue.

"Yes, that is who I am asking about. Tell me how the two of you are related to one another?"

The prince's name sounds so good on my lips than it does hers. She shouldn't even be allowed to call his name with her rough voice. Only I should have that right.

'Wait, what am I thinking? Why do I keep comparing myself to this girl?' I asked myself looking at Aracely.

She is the girl that the prince likes and somehow I feel bitter towards her for this reason. The prince had every right to love anyone had wanted, why does it bother me that he liked her and not me?

"Am I...?" I asked myself. I shook my head to get such thoughts out of my head. There is no way that I can be in love with him. He is a man for goddess sake.

I put the thoughts of the prince at the back of my head and continued following behind Ara. In just a few days my life had changed so much that I am losing my mind. A man kissed me and I liked it instead of being disgusted by it. Instead of worrying about the beasts in this place, I am more concerned about comparing myself to a woman.

This is what they call hitting rock bottom when a man finds the need to compare himself to a woman. I have lost my pride and whatever little dignity I had.

"You have yet to answer me," she said.

"Lara," I replied getting tired of her asking the same question so annoying. But I see why the prince might like her, the two of them are both so persistent. She is persistent in learning my relationship with the prince while he on the other hand is persistent in making my life miserable.

Hell is what he said. He gave me such a warm welcome to that place and he has not left an opportunity pass by before he does one thing or the other to taunt me and torture me. Not to mention that stupid nickname he calls me when he is up to no good 'Little lamb'.

Being stuck between chatterbox and the evil prince, I am sure that my life here is not going to be as I planned it. All I wanted was a comfortable life but I can sense drama from afar and not just a little amount but lots and lots of drama.

"You've told me your name but not what relationship you share with the prince."

"The prince and I share a close relationship. He professed his love to me and promised to make me his queen," I said to her. Be it jealousy or just ensuring my safety in this world but I just can't stand her presence. And this will make her angry with the prince which is my revenge on him for digging his claws in my ribs She might tell the prince what I have said to her and don't care as long as she shuts up and lets me think.

I need to survive this world and that includes the prince too. I have to find a way not to die every day like the monster promised I would.

"That is not true, he couldn't...he wouldn't...," she said to herself out loud. I looked at her, her face was in shock at what I just said. It was like her brain could not accept all that I have said to her. I can't blame her, if I were in her position I too would find it hard to believe that the one I love confessed his love to some else. I mean look at me, the prince is not even mined and already I feel possessive of him.

'She must be lucky that he likes her. I wish he would look at me as he did her,' I thought feeling down.

We continued to walk until we reached the road and found Ara's chariot waiting there. We got on and left the forest each of us with a heavy heart.