Chapter 2: The Abandoned Princess

Another day in a foreign land still feels new for Melissa, she's now at the at the Rose Palace where guests of the Avalor kingdom stays. The palace is look so grand for its every corners a have imbued golds and different varieties of gems.

*No wonder father proposed a peace treaty by marriage to both kingdoms* Melissa thought to herself.

[Flashbacks]

The Kingdom of Dratos is being ruled by King Dantalion Gale Dartosa together with his wife Queen Melinna Gale Dartosa mother of the first princess, Princess Melissa Gale Dartosa. But the sudden death of Queen Melinna gave a chance to the power hunger Nobles to put one of their daughter on the Queen's throne. At the end the one who took the Queen's position is the daughter of the Duke Cecilia Valista. As soon as she takes the Queen's position, she took the role of being a mother to the first princess who is five years old at that time. Queen Cecilia soon gave birth to a pair of twin , Prince Christof and Princess Christina.

The twins have both the characteristics of the Royal Bloodline, having a golden blond hair and peridot colored eyes are the proof of qualifications to be a ruler of the kingdom.

Princess Melissa have a black hair and a pair of blue eyes.

Unfortunately even Princess Melissa is the firstborn, she doesn't have one of the two qualities so the noble council took her rights to the throne.

So she lived her life in silent, she was good at studying and she's smart so the queen use her to do the responsibility of the queen behind the desk in secrecy.

Later on, Princess Melissa becomes the forgotten princess. Her father the king neglected her after her mother Melinna died, the king seems avoiding her for she looked exactly the same as the late Queen Melinna.

Living in the shadows of the Royal Family, Melissa longed to be loved, she gave her best to be acknowledge for so many years but all of her efforts are in vain.

She was a living puppet, until she met Isabella.

Isabella is a commoner who lives in the streets with her siblings but one day while Melissa is out to look at how much damage the epidemic cause, she saw Isabella looking for some foods for her siblings.

Melissa bought a piece of bread and suddenly someone bump into here and took her purse, she couldn't chase the thief because she sprained her ankle.

Isabella saw Melissa who's now sitting at the sidewalk deep in thoughts, Isabella asked if she's alright then Melissa extended her hands giving the bread to Isabella.

"I would've bought more but someone took my money..... This is the first time I ever felt this way..is this what they called being hopeless?"

Melissa said with a blank expression, Isabella slaps Melissa's back and give her a big smile. Melissa realized that even in the face of hopelessness some people can still smile.

Isabella took Melissa's hand and introduce her to her siblings, they shared the bread and talk to each other.

As Melissa stayed with them she learned that the water source of the commoners is in one place, no wonder, most of the victims are commoners.

Melissa hurriedly gets back to the palace and reports to the queen and the queen summons the noble council and takes action to eliminate the cause of the disease.

The problems are solved and the people rejoice, giving all the credit to the queen, as for Melissa, for the first time she asked something in return for her hard works, she requested that she wanted Isabella the commoner to be her personal maid.

The Queen agreed to her request and let Melissa appoint her own personal maid.

From then on, Melissa started to express herself more because of Bell.

Years later a sudden war has occurred when the kingdom of Dratos tried to conquer the western kingdom Avalor, the head of the officials of the Dratos kingdom believed that Dratos will win ,but little did they know that the kingdom of Avalor is a kingdom of warriors and sword masters.

While the Dratos kingdom relays on firepower and weaponry.

After long years of wars, both kingdoms resort to peace treaty by marriage. The kingdom of Avalor asked for the treasured princess of the Dratos kingdom.

Everyone knows that Princess Christina is the one to be sent but Queen Cecilia angrily objected, to sent her precious daughter to be slaughtered in a foreign land makes her angry and heart broken.

The Queen begged the king to send the first princess instead, everyone agrees and the king left no choice but to send Princess Melissa.

Melissa believed that even if the people of the kingdom regards her as nothing,she have the duty to protect the kingdom her mother loved so she asked her father the king one last favor, Melissa asked the king to keep the late Queen's tombstone clean together with her mother's favorite flower, After saying that Melissa left her father without an ounce of sadness. She knows that the only person who cares for her in this palace is Isabella.

Little did Melissa know that the king loves her so much that he took all the privilege that her daughter Melissa should have, to keep her safe from the power struggle. The king is aware of what the current Queen can do for the sake of power.

The king secretly wrote a message to be sent to the Avalor's Kingdom Prince Abel Von Avalor, the soon to be Princess Melissa's husband.

Melissa told Bell about the joint marriage, Bell felt enraged about the Royalties and told Melissa that they should just escape and run far away from here, Melissa hugged Bell tightly without saying anything and Bell started crying so hard.

" You can't even cry so let me cry for your sake this time." Bell said as she cried loudly

After some time passed they both laid down on bed together.

" It would've been great if my soon to be home would be a warm country." Melissa said as she closes her eyes.

"Why don't we just see it for ourselves first?" answered Bell.

Melissa suddenly gets excited by the thoughts of it and asked Bell to prepare her things, both of them moved and prepared their things.

Melissa wrote a letter to her father saying she will be back after going on a vacation, and they shouldn't worry that she would run away for she has no intention to do so.

And after all the preparation is done they sneak out and used the secret tunnel that the Royalties use to exit when danger occurs.They safely got out of the palace and started their trip to the neighboring country.

[Back to the present]

Melissa's flashbacks on what happened got cut off when she heard Bell's voice she's at the palace garden admiring the beautiful flowers.

" Your Highness, I've been looking for you every where." Bell said as she took the leaf that falls on Melissa's head.

" I was excited to come here when I saw this place outside the window, I couldn't wait for you because I woke up so early today." *I shouldn't mention that I couldn't sleep because of what happened yesterday* Melissa said in her thoughts.

"Oh, I also saw the Prince near the Garden, he's carrying something in his arms, I think it your things that we left from the inn." Bell said

"Silly Bell... You should have told me sooner, we should get those, why would the prince carry it himself." Melissa urgently walk to where Bell last saw the prince.

"I didn't tell you because I know the prince will still look for you, carrying your things himself is an excuse to see you ." Bell said but Melissa is far away from her to hear it.

"Hmmmm.... Look at those sparkling eyes, I know you wanna see the prince too your highness " Bell once again said to herself.