Walking back from the milsh shop I passed the king’s castle, i had been there multiple times but it still always gave me butterflies walking past. I walk back to my house and plop myself on the couch, my mother comes rushing in at the slam of the door.

“Faith what have i told you, no slamming doors in this household! Unpack your vex” she shouts as she flutters over and grabs me by the collar, dragging me to the kitchen. 

“How do you expect to get a husband when you act like this? Grow your hair out for Honos sakes faith!” she mutters under her breath. I frown and fly myself to my feet, although us fairies have wings we rarely use them. I ripped open the plastic bag and put away the milsh i had gotten. I stumble back to my room, up the stairs and stare out my window hoping that someone would save me from this royal pain in the pygmy. Then I hear a knock on my door, great mum must have found something else i've done wrong. I open the door awaiting my verbal execution to see a petite, slim figured girl with fiery red curls bobbing down to her elbows. Her heart wings fluttering ever so slightly, she was wearing a grey under long sleeved button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up. She had a knee length skirt on and some below knee high boots with straight elf kuffs. Beautiful star earrings, a curly bracelet and a golden choker with the emblem of fernvale engraved onto it, she was beautiful. 

“Hello, I'm Ember! Umm, hello?” she asks, waving her pale hand over my face.

“ oh uh. Hi, hi m-my name is Faith n-nice to meet you!” stumbling on my words as I admire her once more. 

“Faith! Have you met the redhead girl, she’ll be helping you act more ladylike (she even does it better than you, with no drag of the wing needed!)” my mum yells out, loudly muttering that last part as if trying to make me feel bad. I lower my head and walk to my bed and sit down, covering my very flustered but saddened look. 

“H-hey, are you alright?” Ember asks sweetly, sitting down next to me and pulling me closer to her side. I reach to hold embers left shoulder but my mother yells from downstairs.

“Faith you better be getting ready! We are going up to the king's palace to have a meeting with the other nobles! Oh, you can come too ember dear.” my mother shouts from the front door, slamming it behind her. 

“Hey… let's get ready!” ember says trying to bring a chipper attitude back to the room. I get up and we walk to my cupboard, Ember inspected the different articles of clothing. Neatly putting away the different dresses that were collecting dust in there, finally after me being a picky person who absolutely hates dresses we pick two and agree that it wouldn’t be for long. We turn around and begin to put on our dresses. I had picked this short muted sage green dress, if you could un-frill a dress this one would be it. I pull on the disgustingly poofy sleeves and think to myself ‘ what if i just turn around? No, no, that's weird. Just a peek through?’ i quickly turn around to see embers back and the clasps of her bra, flustered i turn around as quickly as i could, but i being the gay mess i am look back, now i don’t notice her snatched curves but some white streaking lines across her back. 

“Enjoying the view?” Ember says jokingly now facing me directly at me, i sequel at the sight of her well ‘assets’ and turn back around. Ember was wearing a long sleeve dress with a corset tie in the back, it look gorgeous on her to say the least this girl deserved more than my petty dead-beat, hopeless gay comments, they couldn’t capture her beauty they ways eyes could. We finished getting ready and headed to the kings castle, it wasn’t glass haven level big but it was enough for us fairy folk. I walk through the doors and see a row of guards lined up along the walls holding the standard battle spear. I stay close to my mother and Ember, big events like these never sat right with me. Continuing to follow my mother, she walks into one room and a guard standing next to the door shuts it before I can walk through and directs me to a left corridore. I'm guided to a room on the far right side and the door is shut abruptly behind me. In this room I see nova, a couple of the other nobles kids and, prince trevan flickerdove, My arch nemesis.

“Greetings, faith. Haha how sad, you need some cazyiss royalty escort ” trevan tilts his head back and laughs, ember looked ashamed for just being there.

“Don’t talk to my, girlfriend like that” even though i barely knew emberi had to think quickly to defend her and girlfriend was the only thing i could think of that wasn’t clique  ‘don’t bully me friend’ or some dumb vex like that. The whole room goes silent and trevan shuts up quickly, ember blushes and sits down next to me now looking slightly happier to exist. We continue with our weekly card games and me bing the absolute Honos chaveed i am, i lose 27 times in a game of Voytaged, where the aim of the game is to have the highest amount of voytaged boats and gold, you would start out with a certain amount of gold and boats depending on how high you rolled and everyone kept stealing from me or i rolled to low and stole nothing. It's quite a long game and just as I was about to steal 12 boats and 50,000 gold from Trevan, my mother pulls me out and says that we need to go home now. I pouted the whole way home as my mother complained about how the king should promote her to a royal status, as if he could do that. Finally after what felt like weeks of my mother rambling we made it home.

“Now Ember dear, I can't be bothered to get a bed, you can share with faith.” my mother snapped, signifying for us to get to bed before she dragged me there. I walk up to my bed and plop myself down and Ember walks into a separate room to get changed. I look at the corner of my wing, we were always told as kids.

“your wings are like your heart, it breaks and you're gone for good!” i ponder that phrase a lot, wondering if my life was even worth living. I've stayed clean for so long; for what. 

"None of this was even worth it, everything sucks and everyone else would be better off if I just snapped my wings, if I- if I just died" I scream to myself, I take to my wings and even though it was like breaking bones I was going to break mine. I hated everything, finally I got somewhere; my wings hurting like crazy. i go to take the final swing and everything goes black, had i done it? Am I finally free? Everything was pitch black and as hard as I tried I couldn't move, shivers going up and down my used to be spine as I pondered in the infinite darkness, was I really dead? What would happen to ember? And what was that awful beeping noise?