Chapter 2

The people in the kingdom all heard about the queen with her challenges and the maid who won her favor.

The other contestants who participated in the arena took this loss lightly. They believed the queen had finally found someone worthy of her and loved them dearly, now leading the kingdom into the future that was bright as a sky full of stars.

Though some other contestants did not do as the latter did, they took the loss quite heavily, believing the maid was not worthy of the queen, and being the narcissists as they were, thought too highly of themselves, and started rumors.

Some contestants were royals, so word traveled fast.

Many rumors started, stating how the maid had plotted and schemed her way into her majesty’s favor. Or how the maid was actually a witch and used a love potion to cast a spell on her majesty. Or how the maid only accepted her majesty’s confession because she wanted to rule the kingdom along with her.

This was all transferred to the ears of the queen, who became enraged after hearing about this. The maid, although a commoner, had a pure heart and did not scheme and plot. The maid had put complete trust and faith in the queen, telling her all of their secrets and things about them.

Because things were getting rough, there had even been ambushes to try to eliminate the maid, the queen decided to make a choice. She would reject (dump) the maid in front of everyone, confirming there was no relationship between them, then go and ‘invite’ a prince she was close with to rule beside her, creating an illusion that she had a new partner and ‘found out’ what the maid’s ‘dark intentions’ were.

The only loophole in this plan was considering the feelings of the maid.

The queen contemplated on telling the maid about her plan or not, and if she decided not to, and broke their heart, what would happen to them? The queen fell asleep due to pure exhaustion , and woke up unfortunately forgetting what she was contemplating throughout the night and carried on with her plan.

The maid was shocked.

To see her one true love tell her she had lost interest in her and dumped her in front of everyone then tell her that she had gotten together with someone else, a male even! Was just the load of everything finding a way to fall directly onto her shoulders! Wasn’t it? Out of all the-

The maid cut herself off. Even though she was sad and a bit angry, she shouldn't hold a grudge over such a thing she considered trivial.

It was a miracle she wasn’t kicked out of the castle.

Now, the queen distanced herself from the maid, greeting her politely every time she saw her but never engaging in conversation as she used to, leaving the maid a bit depressed and dejected.

Therefore, she locked herself in her chambers, refusing to come out, in there reading god-knows-what, until she decided to come out one day after many months of unneeded seclusion.

The maid felt numb. She shed no tears for she knew this couldn’t be true. Instead she started having personality changes. Whenever anyone saw her sitting alone in a corner looking down, they would come over and ask what was wrong. Then she would immediately laugh a bit, smile, and say she liked corners and how it felt safe to have something behind your back.

She was lying.

She didn’t know how the queen was doing.

One day she received a letter. Written from the queen explaining the whole predicament including a note apologizing and confessing her love yet again. The maid felt overjoyed! All this sadness and secret loving had come to an end! She quickly wrote back explaining the situation from her side and accepted her queen’s love. Entrusting her letter to a knight to deliver to , her heart felt so light it might’ve soared into the air if not for the sake of living and breathing said air.

She could finally be reunited with her love again! Or not.

Since the incident of the maid rumored to be a witch who cast a spell over the queen had still yet to cease, the maid’s family was forced out of the kingdom. The maid was no different. She was yanked from the castle (now? seriously?) and physically thrown out of the kingdom gates, left with her family to fend for themselves in an entirely new kingdom far far away. . .

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