I step back confused and surprised that the soon to be Dutchess would send me here, of all places. Until I realize the whole time she was talking to me upstairs was about prophecies, so there must be a reason.

I decided that sitting on the chair and waiting for whatever will happen is my best bet.

Soon enough a red vial pops up in front of me, It is fizzling and bubbling like its boiling but when I feel it, it's freezing cold. Under my nose is a real life potion. The ones we are always told while we were little to NEVER EVER even go near it. I decide what is probably happening, a second part of the aptitude test. Having a sense in my heart that this potion will not hurt me one bit. I say the one thing I always say before I break a rule "Screw The Rules" and gulp the potion down as fast as I can.

The potion burns like liquor going down my throat. Yes I'm 12 and yes I know what liquor tastes and feels like! I've never had any sort of drugs or drinks stronger than it though. Ive committed worse acts than drinking a raspberry cooler though, like the time I let a skunk into the principals office. Now that was fun.

Those are the last things I remember before my mind slows and I fall into darkness beginning to hear some words that I will always understand the meaning of, but never ever remember for the rest of my life.

I re-awake as I check my watch 30 seconds after I drank the potion. I cant remember any of the wording they used but the message is clear.

When the new princess has an heir, sometime within 2 years after she must have another child who goes out to live in the system with the other children. When the heir turns 12 the 2 children meet for the first time and the child who lived in the system lives in the palace. After she turns 18 can choose to stay in the palace or leave, never to return.

I understood immediately. You aren't allowed to see a prophecy about yourself until right before it happens. Everyone knows the current heir is a girl named Rose who everyone says looks a lot like me.

Great, now i'm stuck living in the palace for 6 whole years! Unless....

I walk into the office where, my mom, the soon to be Dutchess, Michelle is waiting. I put a blank face on hoping to see what she does. She smiles at me.
"A lot to take in huh? I can't believe it's finally been 11 years since you were born."
"That's for sure" my mind whirrs thinking about how this happened, and what I'm going to do about it, if I like it" and in an instant I fall into darkness and crumble onto the floor