Rose moved in discomfort. What? This could not possibly be paradise right? The thing she laid on, whatever it was, was so hard and uncomfortable reminding her of when she was in the orphanage. Or was she in hell? She doubted that since the sister always told her them that hell was hot.
Rembering that, she suddenly felt sweaty. She felt the uncomfortable feeling of heat as well as cold – fever. Since she felt the presence of cold, she knew she was not in hell but where the hell was she then?
She then made an attempt to open her eyes and it opened imdiately, her two eyes stared around at the familiar ceiling. Was she back to the orphanage? She imdiately went through her mind and the mories of why she felt she was either in hell or paradise and not her bed in the orphanage ca to her mind.
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Rosaline noticed the tight thick ropes holding hands together behind her back and her legs as soon as she woke up. The ropes were too tight and uncomfortable. She shivered visibly due to the cold she felt from being drenched in a bucket of cold water. She was sitted on a chair.. The place was large with her right eye which was her only functioning eye hurting from the bright light from the large door opened in front of her. The cold wind coming in from the door also did not do her any good in her state and she kept shivering.
Turning to the right, she noticed her step mother seated with her leg crossed on a brown leather sofa and her step-siblings standing beside her. Behind them were a dozen of royal guards in their blue and black uniform awaiting orders and protecting those three before her. She rembered going to the palace and getting stopped by the guards at the gate and she told them she was the princess. She was knocked out after giving them the proof of her identity.
The orders the guards awaited finally ca, "Beat her up." That order ca from her step mother sitting with pride as the only thought she had on her mind was to have her rival's daughter beaten and abused until she was satisfied which she will only be if the girl was dead.
The guards imdiately took the order of the queen to beat up the tied up teenager. Walking to her with a baton, the guards did not hesitate to beat her.
"No, please I am sorry," she cried as a baton hit her lap. She could swear that that single hit had broken her bones. If it was because she was the daughter of the late queen then she did not want the identity anymore. The joy she once felt when she discovered she also had a father sowhere was all long gone. "I swear, I will disappear," she tried to beg her way out of dying.
The queen raised her hand putting the beating to a halt. She got up slowly and elegantly walked to her standing a few feet away from her. "Disappearing is not important. You should have been dead more than ten years ago and since you refused to die, I want to help you. You should not covet what is not yours. Do you think that by returning, you will be welcod into the palace with a party and an announcent to the world that you have returned?"
"No, I never wanted anything but to et my father. Please I don't want to die. Please," she continued pleading as tears ran down her cheeks.
The queen stared at the disgusting looking girl before her and it took so much willpower for her not to empty her stomach of the lunch she had just had a couple of hours ago. The girl had an ugly large scar on the left side of her face that destroyed the left side of her face. It looked so unsightly that she really wanted to look away but the joy she got from seeing her rival's daughter end up in such pathetic state made her keep staring it was definitely going to make her live the rest of her life smiling.
"You cannot see your father with that face. You are too disgusting to stand before the king," her step sister told her as she walked to her with her hands folded on her chest.
"You are just like your mother but I feel better looking at you," her step mother told her chuckling. "I will do this world a favor of eliminating such useless humans that are trying hard to claim importance."
"Please don't kill ," her pleas continued. She did not want to die. Life had not been beautiful and easy but she definitely did not want to die. It had being hard living with the scar on her face and her left blind eye but that did not an she wanted to die. She had hope that perhaps she will be able to make enough money for her surgery in the future.
"Loose her," the queen ordered. The guard loosened her and she imdiately sighed in relief at least her begging worked but little did she know that it was only to make her more miserable.
"Thank you, Your Highness," she appreciated standing up but her body dropped to the dusty rough floor her legs being too weak from the beating. She winced and made another attempt to stand up already making plans on how she would run away and hide forever.
"I haven't decided to forgive you yet," the queen told her making her hope shatter.
She fell again to the floor and did not bother to wince despite the pain she felt from her numb hands and sore legs. She felt as though the muscles of her laps were crushed. The cold, the pain all seed to vanish and she was simply waiting to be killed since her legs could not support her out.
"Beg. I can't tell how much you want to live. Beg for your life," her step-mother told her in a soft tempting voice carrying hope.
The hope that Rosaline once lost was restored she had a hope that if she succeeded in begging for her life, she might be given another chance. She lifted her head towards her step-mother and began another session of begging this ti, she tried to let all her emotions and desire to live show.
Her pleas only made the queen giggle in amusent but naïve Rosaline felt she was not persuasive enough and kept trying harder. "Please, please let live. I will leave and never return. I will leave this kingdom and never return. I will beco invisible. Please let live. I beg you please. Give a chance to live. Please let live. Please. Please. Please, Your Highness, grant the grace of not dying. I beg for rcy," her pleas continued. She thought of anything, word or expression that might make the queen let her go and made use of them all. Tears wet her face along with the water that still remained on her taking ti to dry up.
"Who are you to seek the king's help? Who are you to try and appear before , the queen with such appearance? Who are you to try to be a princess? Who are you to dream of living in the palace?" her step-brother asked now standing beside his mother.
"I am stupid, I don't deserve anything good. I am ugly and useless so please don't let bother you with my death," her brain made new thods of begging, and that was making her importance reduced. Perhaps they won't take her serious any longer.
"Yes, you are pathetic and unimportant," her step mother agreed with her new thod. It was like music in her ears, having Doris' daughter beg her in such manner. She nodded to the beat of her newly found music. "Beg more, persuade to let you live," she did not hesitate to motivate Rosaline to give her more of that music.
"I . . .," Rosaline began but got interrupted by the uncomfortable feeling in her throat and began coughing violently with a sharp unpleasant pain in her chest with every cough. The cold was getting the best of her. Her step-mother and step-siblings were well protected from the cold by the thick jackets they wore but she was only dressed in a white T-shirt and brown jeans, the coat she wore to the palace was gone.
Since she could not beg because her throat felt sore after violently coughing, she began rubbing her hands together towards her step-mother.
Feeling both angry and disappointed that her music had stopped, the queen turned to the guards with a new way to torture the eyesore before her. "You can leave," she said to Rosaline but gave a different order to the guards.
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