Missing Princess

When Alice the personal maid to the princess finished bathing, she came to check on the princess in her room but she wasn't there. May be she entered the bathroom," my princess, my princess "Alice called. But there was no answer. She opened her bathroom,she wasn't there."Where could she be? Ok the queens chamber!" said Alice as she ran out of the princess room and headed to the queen's chamber.

"Why are you running like that Alice?" one of the guard's asked as he saw her runing towards the queen's chamber. "I'm looking for the princess" replied Alice, please did you see her enter the queen's chamber because she is not in her room?"Alice asked.

"No, i did not" the guard replied.

"Ok let me check her mother's chamber first" she said as she ran into the queen's chamber.

"Long live the queen" said Alice as she entered the queen's chamber.

"You are welcome Alice,what can l do for you?"asked the queen as she wondered what brought her at that time.

"Please my queen i came to check if the princess is here with you",the maid replied.

"No she is not,she is supposed to be resting in her room",said the queen while looking at Alice with a surprise look.

"Did any other thing happen apart from the disappointment she got from her father today?" The queen asked with a suspicious look on her face.

"No my queen" Alice answered.

"Then she must have gone to the king's chamber for explanations. Let's go to the kings chamber and check". the queen suggested.

They both went to the kings chamber, the palace guards and maids that saw them moving very fast and almost running towards the kings chamber wondered what was happening. The king was surprised to see his queen who was supposed to be resting at that time rushed into his chamber with Alice.

"What is the problem that made you both run to my chamber instead of resting after a very busy day like this?" He asked in confusion.

"The princess is not in her room and didn't come to my chamber,so we came to check if she is here",replied the queen.

"She has been angry and crying after opening the gift you gave her and saw it was not what she had been expecting , i told her that you will explain the reason later",the queen added.

"She didn't come here said the king, i hope its not what i'm thinking?" he murmured to himself .

He instruted that the emergency bell be rang and everyone in the palace except the guards at the main gate and those guarding the different chambers as well as every other very important places in the palace.

"We are looking for the princess, but we won't say she is missing yet until the palace if thoroughly searched and she is not found" said the king.

" I want all the guards and maids to start searching the palace for the princess now" he ordered.

They all went to search for the princess as instructed by the king.

Alice called Eva one of the palace maids who is her best friend aside and told her to follow her to the royal study room to check if the princess entered there. "As the princess's personal maid, I know two places she likes to stay apart from her room",said Alice. "It's the royal study room and the gym room" she added.

"Let's check the study room first,I don't want to go alone because of what happened the last time I went there you remember Eva".

They both laughed out loud because Eva remembered the day Alice entered to read, sat down and shifted her chair which made a sound that made a rat in the room to run so fast to hide. Alice thought it was a ghost and ran out of the study room shouting.

"Ehh, let's lower our voices before someone will misinterpre it" said Eva

"You are right they will think we are rejoicing because the princess is missing" Alice added. They stopped talking for a while as they walked down the corridor that leads to the study room. As they got close to the study room,they saw that it's door was opened.

"I knew she will be here" said Alice

"my princess, my princess" shouted Alice as they entered the room.

"Alice it's me Ken not the princess" Ken answered. Ken is one of the palace guards specially incharge of the study room. He entered there in search of the princess before Alice and Eva.

"Oh it's you Ken",

"yes" Ken replied. They all left the study room to the gym room but the princess was still not there. The whole palace was thoroughly searched but the princess was not found.

The king and queen went to the princess room when the guards and maids were doing the palace search because they remembered that there is an entrance to the royal secret exit from the princess room.

Since the secret exit was meant for only the royal family members they are the only ones who know and have easy access to the secret exit hence each member has a special entrance door connecting their rooms and the secret exit.

The secret exit was built in such a way that it would not easily be detected, there was a particular spot on the floor of each of the royal family members room where they were to use and open the exit but was disguised and covered with a royal seal meant for walls and floors. On these spots one would find one tiny hole which can easily be neglected when seen by anyone else. Placing a finger inside the small hole and pressing it hard three consecutive times opens up one side of the wall in the room, then from the other end of the wall one could close up the wall with a button located on the wall. From there one can easily walk down an underground tunnel to the outside of the palace.

The queen quickly removed the rug that covers the spot on the floor only to see that the seal used to cover the tiny hole was removed. "Look the seal is not here!!!, oh my God this girl has left the palace" the queen said.

"I told her that the secret exist is for emergency alone,now she has used it to excape because of anger" said the king.

"I regret showing her the royal exit door", he added.

"Please my husband this is not the time to lament, instruct the guard to go in search of her before she goes far" the queen said.

Another emergency bell was rang according to the king's order, the guard's and maids all gathered and the king with out them talking already know they didn't see the princess from their facial expression. The king then instructed some of the guard's to go in search of her within the neighbourhood before she goes far. The king and his queen were so disappointed, the queen cried and regretted not allowing her to go to her father for explanations when she wanted to go. The king consoled her and reassured her that she will be back soon,but the queen continued crying.

"Oh my God protect my only child where ever she may be now,don't allow our enemies see her the queen prayed".

"I pray she don't leave this kingdom before they see her, I pray she doesn't meet danger ooo" the queen continued to cry.

"Please pull yourself together my queen,said the king. All we need to do now is pray and do a serious search, by God's grace she will come home safe.

"Go to your room and rest, the guard's will bring back good news" he tried to persuade her.