There was a 12-year-old princess named Alexa Serena Dawn, she was a princess of the Kingdom Ethermoor. She had dark hair and white bangs framing her face. Her grey-blue eyes stood out through her pale skin. She always had trouble getting comfortable around new people and always seemed suspicious about everything. You see, her whole life she had been forced to wear dresses and makeup, she wasn't even allowed into the battle arena to watch battles between the lions and prisoners and sometimes even between warrior's to see who is the strongest.

The bell rang for dinner as Alexa scrambled to put on her tiara

She managed to jam it on just in time for her maiden to walk in and tell her to come to dinner "Stupid Tiara, "she thought as she walked down the hallways as quickly as her heeled shoes could take her. And she barely sat down at the massive table when the second 'Ding' happened and her parents, King Aldrich and Queen Caroline, came walking in regally in their shiny dresses and tunics. Her mother gave a signal to the guard holding the door for her and he stood near the door for the rest of the dinner. The caterer walked in with samples of savoury food, sweet food and desserts, you name it. But Alexa was feeling less than happy with the food.

"Can I go now?" Alexa whined!

Her mother waved her hand at her carelessly " Nonsense! You really must try this custard biscuit, it is quite a specimen" 

"Ah, Our Alexa, still cranky about us not letting you watch the battle?" The kind asked, he was always more cheerful than her mother and was much more easy-going "You must understand that your too young to watch the bloodthirsty lions maul prisoners down"

"But you always say that I should be prepared for the battles to come when I'm gonna be queen!" Alexa said 

"That is for emotional battles, Not physical battles, Lex," King Aldrich said wisely. Then he killed the moment by asking Queen Caroline for a sample of cake. Alexa groaned loudly and banged her head against the table in a loud clang

"Alexa!" Queen Caroline warned with a hand over her heart" We've been over this! None of this at the table! Grounded."

Her father tried reasoning with his wife 

"But Carol, She-" 

"No, Al," She said, Turning back to Alexa and pointing, "finish this part of the roast and go to your room, now"

She scoffed her dinner down and left the table without saying goodbye, Though she did sneak a look at her father who gave a small smile. She rushed out the door and nearly got stabbed by one of the guards who mistook her for an intruder. She gave a glare to one of her guards guarding a door and they opened it immediately, only two voices made her stop.

"Hey, Lexi!" and " Hello, Alexa!"

She spun her head around to see her favourite guards who were always guarding her room, grinning at her, It was Carla Morales, who was about 16 and had bright red hair styled in a ponytail and wide, friendly brown eyes, and Logan Weaver Who was a 14 with short-cropped brown hair and pale green eyes, In this time period, All ages needed to work, From 10 to 60 or more if you could

"Where you headed? Dinner isn't over," Logan asked her

Alexa rolled her eyes "The usual, Grounded" 

She'd expected sympathy, and she got it, But not for her

"Aww, Go Easy on the queen, She's trying her hardest," Carla said with pouted lips

"Well, What do you expect me to do? Go back there?" Alexa Snapped

"Woah Woah there princess! Be chill, you're with the chill people, right Carla?" Logan said

Alexa's cheeks burned from the title especially from Logan but, That was what she was, A princess.

"I don't want to talk right now, Let me in my room!" She said loudly

Logan narrowed his eyes and looked at Carla, They shared a look of pure concern and moved aside, Bowing as she walked through. She ran inside her huge bathroom and took a nice hot shower, She walked into her bedroom-sized closet and chose a comfortable dress and undid her braids in her hair, She brushed her black and white hair, and scurried to her windowsill, She grabbed her journal and wrote about today, She could still hear the chattering from Logan and Carla as they were talking about how to cheer her up which she needed right now, She was about seven minutes in writing in her journal when the chattering stopped and she heard Logan and Carla Scurrying away from her door, 473 seconds passed until she heard a knock on the door and yes, She counted 

'Ugh who could it be this time' She thought

"Tada!" A voice said as she opened the door, it was Carla, Spreading her hands around a huge decorated cake that was held by, She assumed, was Logan.

Alexa stared at the cake with hungry eyes and Carla ushered Logan inside. Logan set down the cake on her crystal desk and Carla fished out a fork and spoon from her hidden pocket in her armour and placed them down on napkins next to the cake. Alexa started with small bites of the frosting until she made her way to the middle where she saw blue pink and purple swirls of frosting and spongecake.

"Did you make this Carla?" She Asked 

"Yep!" Logan Answered cheerfully

"It's Brilliant!" Alexa said

Carla blushed "Really?"

"Really,"

That moment there was when her mother chose to barge into her room, Knocking down her lamp

"Oh... We'll fix that later it's fine." The queen said waving her hand at the cracked lamp

"But...That was my antique lamp grandma gave me," Alexa said, Tears rimming her vision

"Oh?" Her mother said, Her hand clamped around her mouth and her other hand on her heart, She took a few moments and gave a signal to Carla and she picked up the lamp and ran outside. Alexa saw Carla kneel and start fixing it.

"You" Her mother pointed at her "I and your father are going on a cruise ship to watch the whales, you stay in your room, Dinner will be brought to you by the girl fixing the lamp outside" 

"Carla"

"Yes, the girl- Carla!" Her mother said clearing her throat

The rest of the day was a blur after that, she ate a bit more of the cake, changed into her jammies with ruffled sleeves and placed her freshly washed-silk eye mask on her nightstand and then grabbed her journal to draw a few doodles before bed, After about 20 minutes she blew out her candle, put on her eye mask and went to bed. In the morning, She woke up to a foggy day and her room was weirdly dark and boring, even the colourful lights above her bed were dulling, she didn't let that stop her from getting out of bed, stretching and taking a cold and refreshing shower. She combed her hair and set her white bangs with hair spray, she squinted her greyish blue eyes at herself for a while and walked to the corridor to the grand hall where maids, caterers and butlers were preparing breakfast for the royal family, her father and mother were noticeably absent from the table, all it took was one glare at her butler and he told her that her parents had already left on their cruise, though, Carla and Logan came 'round and told that her father had wanted

to wait for her to wake up and say goodbye first but her mother had dragged him to the cruise and made him say goodbye to the people awake instead. Queen Caroline was an amazing queen and an even better leader but- She wasn't a great mother, all the years she'd spent ignoring Alexa, there was a time where her mother paid a lot of attention to her but when she turned 5 it had stopped. A gentle tap on her shoulder distracted her from her thoughts.

"Lexi?" 

"Logan?" She asked snapping her head backwards

Sure enough, she saw a brown-haired boy with a smirk on his face

"Hey Lexi," He said grinning 

By now, most of the maids and butler's were staring at Logan in disbelief. A butler even came by and muttered something about Logan being crazy

"Nah, Lex would never do that" Logan said waving his hand at the butler's face "Now, shoo before Alexa fire's you"

Even Alexa was staring at Logan's pale green eyes 

"What? I trust my Lexi" He said, Shrugging

Alexa's Cheeks burned as she glared at him, she turned on her heel and stomped off to her huge room, she opened the door and slammed it in the guard's face. She ran to her amethyst desk and sobbed, Why did her parent's have to leave her? She cried for a few hours before she heard a knock on her door, she wiped her face on her sleeve and walked at a snail pace to the door and opened the door, She looked up to see Carla

"Hey, Alexa! Just comin' by to drop this off" She turned and grabbed a person behind her back and pulled out Logan. Logan waved shyly at her and looked down at his feet. Carla rolled her eyes "This scaredy-cat was too wimpy to come over here, I saw everything that happened and- Oh"Carla looked at her running eyeliner and her tear-stained face, Carla made a weird face and whispered something in Logan's ear and walked away with a smile on her face

Logan offered a small smile, but it faded when she didn't smile back. He chewed his bottom lip and then started talking"Look, I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable, I swear I didn't mean to!"

Alexa gave him a plain look and pursed her lips. "It's fine," She said after an eternity, She still kept her plain face on because It could make him think it was okay to make her sad.