Chapter 4

                Part 3: Before It’s Too Late..,

     As Grace confide’s in Douglas he start’s to wonder why such an outgoing and cheerful girl would feel as though she was over thinking everything, But he still quietly listened to her,

 Douglas : Well, If I may, Why do you feel like you are like a river winding into its self?

     Grace stay’s silent for a moment, Then with a trembling voice she start’s to speak,

 Grace : Douglas, T-to tall you the t-truth I.., I’m the Princess that the Dark King kidnapped to replace her with his sister! And to tell you the full truth.., I, I’m,   I’m happy that that Dark King did!

     Douglas looked at Grace with a shocked expression,

 Douglas : What do you mean you are happy he kidnapped you?!

 Grace : My whole life I have been confined to a room in my family’s palace, I’ve never even been to a ball, I have alway’s been told by my family that one day a Prince will come for my hand and I am to go with him and I’m to marry him.., And I have come to the realization that I have alway’s just expected it, That it was my fate to marry Prince William, 

     Her voce crack’s and she started to cry more.., 

 Grace : I have never met him, Nor have I even receive a letter from him since it was announced that we where to marry, We have never even seen each other’s portrait’s to see what the other look’s like! I have alway’s wanted to leave the small world of my bedroom, The confine’s of my study and the countless hour’s of studying to become a future Queen, But.., But I don’t even know if I could do such a thing if I’m just going to be confined in a new place that seem’s different but is still the same, Yet some how smaller and even more suffocating.., I want to go back to my family.., I miss them but I don’t want to go back to my old life I wish I told my mother and my father that all I want for my wedding present was my freedom!..,

     Douglas hugged Grace as she cried though he was unsure how exactly to comfort her, He decided to just hold onto her hoping that it would ease her pain..,

 Douglas : It’s all right Grace! Everything will be ok, I’m sure there will be a time when you have the confidence to tell your family how you really feel!

 Grace : Thank you Douglas! I will tell them, No! I need to tell them! Before it is too late I need to tell them!

 Douglas : Yes…., Before it’s too late.., 

     As Douglas stood there Grace continued to speak with him, His mind when blank, It was as though the pain she was feeling was also becoming his.., He could to help but think of the pain and sadness in her voice as if this was the first time he had ever heard such word’s spoken, It reminded him of his own pain! The pain he felt the day he lost his parent’s and the time he was told that his younger sister was nowhere to be found…, What did it mean to know another’s emotion’s as if they where your own? What word’s could he use to ease her distress? Was there even any? If there was could someone had shared them with him when he felt alone? He taught to himself that at time’s like these no one should have to face there fear’s or worry’s alone and he be damed if he let Grace go though her worry's alone!