Chapter 1 |
The music played softly and the aristocrats waltzed around the dance room. The choir and band were filling the room with magic and melodies while the ladies in gown and the men in suits danced gracefully in time with the music. Rosa sat on a sweet at the edge of room. She
Rosa wanted to go, she wanted go back to the
palace and flop on to her big squishy bed and fall asleep with her gown on,
even though the maids wouldn’t allow it. That was the bad thing about being
royalty, everything has to be proper and her gown can have no creases, loose stitching
or a bow out of place, and that was only her night gown. Rosa wished she wasn’t
a princess, all the diamonds and petticoats, all the gold and tight corsets.
She wanted to run away and leave this place, forever.
Rosa looked
around, no-one was looking, she saw her chance she slowly rose from the sweet
and snuck towards the open doors. When
close enough Rosa sprinted, she kicked
off her shoes and ran down the steps. That’s when she was seen, the man who saw
her yelled and started to chase her, that alerted the other dancers, Rosa hated
that man, how dare he yell when all she was doing running away harmlessly, she
wasn’t hurting anyone! Rosa ran as the crowd that followed her got bigger and
bigger until as Rosa could see behind her was a mass of people wearing
petticoats and covered in jewels.
Rosa ran and ran
but the mass following her would not give up. She ran until she came to small
woodland, which in the centre had a very large hollow tree. Rosa saw her opportunity and ran as fast as
she could into the middle of the tree. She stood there as still as the old tree
itself as the mass stopped and when back to palace to tell her mother and
father that the chase had been unsuccessful. When she was sure they had all
gone Rosa crept out of the tree started walking towards the village.
