Today is Antonio's and my birthday, we are turning 1,000 today. Our parents also decided that now was the best time to informed us that we have been engaged since birth, when the other ruling family of our people had fraternal twins as well, a boy and a girl and that because we were all born on the same night at the same time, they believed that it was destiny for us to marry. I don't think I much like this news. This was supposed to be my big day, and my brothers too. When we're finally considered adults by our people, and we were able to rule alongside our parents, not that it even gives us a lot of say in things, we do still get to help in decision making on laws and what not. Now this day marks the day my brother and I met our betrotheds. Of course it's their birthday as well, so one or both may feel the same way I do. Because of this news my mother won't let me wear the violet gown I bought that matches my eyes, she wants me to wear a deep emerald dress. It's OK I suppose, it does bring out my eyes………. who knew green made purple stronger, and I guess I can't complain. My fiery red hair just completes the whole thing, and when I say Fiery red, I'm not just saying its the color of the red in a fire, I mean it looks like fire itself. But now that I am standing here looking at myself in the full length mirror I can't really complain. This dress does look good on me, and it is in the same style as the one I had wanted to wear. 

The dress both hangs and hugs my curves, while hiding and showing them off, if that makes any sense at all. Like it forms perfectly to my chest and waist and then kinda waterfalls down from there, it actually fades to an ocean blue at the bottom, then there is a piece of fabric at the top that hangs over my top half, it's almost like a jacket, but it's actually attached to the dress itself. The sleeves are honestly my favorite part. I love sleeves like this, where they form to my upper arm and taper off starting at the elbow. When I first saw the dress I was afraid that it would be too long, I'm short and it looked like it was meant for someone taller than me, but once I got it on, it was almost as if it instantly shrunk to fit my tiny frame. I stand only 5’3” were as my brother stands 6’3”. I don't find it very fair. The deep emerald green makes my fiery hair look more vibrant, my hair normally hangs down past my waist, and is somewhat bushy, but I love it all the same. I had wanted to leave it down, but mother thought it would be best to pull it up into a ponytail, while leaving my banges out to frame my face. The combination of the dress and with only my banges framing my face made my violet eyes stand out. Which I didn't mind this time. I took one last look at myself, making sure nothing was out of place and then turned from the mirror and left my room. My brother was waiting outside my door to escort me to the party. It is the tradition of my people for the oldest male sibling to escort his sister to her coming of age party. There really isn't a tradition for the males, in a way like in the old time human world only girls get coming of age parties, but here both do, the men just don't need an escort. Since we are twins and he was born first it kinda works out, seeing as we have no older male siblings, we are the only children of our parents. My brother too was wearing a deep emerald suit, and his undershirt was the same ocean blue as the bottom part of my dress. He too had Fiery red hair and violet eyes. He held his elbow out for me to take before we started walking to meet up with our parents and guests.

“Well sis, are you ready to meet your betrothed?” Antonio asked, already knowing the answer but asking anyway, needing to make conversation to abate his own nervousness. I smiled up at him as we walked and patted his arm.

“Brother you know what I think about this whole thing, I don't like it, but we also knew we wouldn't really get to pick our mates ourselves anyway. But I would rather this meeting of the mates happen on a different day than our birthdays. I suppose this could be interesting though I mean they are the only other children born the same night as us, like in the whole world, which if you ask me is odd as it is that no other women had children that night, even when they were definitely ready. Heck no other children had even been born that day until night fell and the moon was at its highest, then boom four babies were born in all of twenty minutes.” I said to my brother, he smiled remembering how our parents had told us the story of the day we were all born. Some women had gone into labor the night before, but when the new day started their labor stopped and after midnight that night they gave birth within hours of the new day arriving.

“Mother told me of how my betrothed was born at the same time as me, she said the same goes for you as well.” Antonio said. “Mom says that it's a good omen, and the gods want these unions.” I grinned.

“My dear brother, how do you feel about meeting your betrothed?” I teased. Antonio was more open to the idea than I was. Maybe if our parents had told us when we first learned to understand the meaning of words, then maybe I wouldn't care about this, maybe it wouldn't bother me so much. Though it's kinda funny that it does now, because when I was a little girl I used to pretend that I was betrothed to, who I really am betrothed to. So I find it funny that I'm bothered by the news that he is my betrothed. Maybe it's because it's no longer believable, but real and that I've never even met him nor seen a picture or portrait of him. The Royal families only get together every one thousand years, they had been pregnant with us when the last get together was about to happen so they met sooner so that the traveling pair didn't get caught going into labor while traveling home. Three days after they got home from a four day trip we were born. They decided to wait until our birthdays to have the party this time around, for whatever reason…..I don't. Mom says it's so that the four of us can celebrate together and to also make our engagements official, at these parties the people of both nations are invited to party and mingle with the Royal families. Mainly because it's one of the ways that some of the Royals find mates for their children. Though in this case no males nor females are expecting to be chosen as it's been made known since our births that we were all paired together. I asked my mother what she meant by making our engagements official. She said that Antonio would present Mae with a ring, which she will accept and that Niklaus will do the same for me. She also happily mentioned that this would happen not in private romantic settings as one would assume for such a thing. Normally when Royal engagements are made official the ring has already been given and the party is just to show it off along with your mate.