Chapter 2 - The East Wing Tower

The tower was quite far from the main estate. Even the pathway to the tower was not easy. On her way to the tower, Candy stepsister Alicia was there to greet her out the estate.

"My dear little sister! I see you are finally moving out!" Alicia said laughing while covering her mouth with her hand.

"Please get out of my way. Unless you want to come with me!" Candy said with gritted teeth.

"Haha! Me come with you. I, Alicia Crosshearts rightfully belong here. You are the outsider! Even a piece of trash knows where it belongs! Rightfully, in the trash! I'm just here to say farewell. Mother said it will be quite a long while before you can ever come out" Alicia said while giggling.

"Let's go!" Candy yell for her maids to continue on to the east wing tower. As soon as she walked past Alicia, Candy felt a grab on her arm that yank her hard that she almost fell.

"Wait a moment, dear sister! I wasn't done talking!" Alicia said now angry.

"Let go of my arm before I drag you and lock you in the tower with me" Candy said while trying to get her arm out of her stepsister hold.

"How rude! It amazes me how you are even my sister. Oh! What's this? A box! You must have stole my jewelry! Open it up!" Alicia yell and went to grab the box in Candy hand.

"No! It's mine! Let go!" Candy yell while trying to hold on tightly to the box.

"Give it to me!" Alicia yell back.

The girls continue to fight over the box until Candy lost hold of it and Alicia fell hard onto the ground.

"Ow! You did that on purpose!" She cried out while still on the floor. She got up and push Candy on the floor. Candy fell on the ground hard. Then she felt a smack on her face.

"You can keep your filthy box! As it will be my last time to see you!" Alicia said while dusting the dirt off her skirt and then she storm off.

"Young miss, are you alright?" her head maid said as she try to get Candy up from the ground.

"Let's just hurry" Candy said with a deep sigh and picked up the box off the ground.

The tower was tall, taller than Candy expected. The tower was surrounded by tall trees on all sides and the road was paved with overgrown weeds as a warning sign to keep out. But Candy was moving there. The knights on guard did their best to remove the weeds to make path for Candy and her maids.

At the entrance of the tower, there was a huge iron door. The door must have been heavy to open as it took two knights. Candy swallow hard to keep her nerves down. But she continue on into the tower. The place was quite dusty but it was huge. It was definitely a place where storage was kept as boxes were located all around. But Candy room was at the top of the tower and to get to it, she had to climb a long stairway up. Halfway up, she could hear her maids groans of pain and some stopping to catch their breath. It was hard she admit. But Candy didn't stop, she wanted to see her new room as quickly as possible. Not because she was excited to see it but more out of fear to see it. As she reach the top of the stairs, she saw a huge door filled with a heavy chain and lock. Candy nervously step towards the door and open it. As soon as she open the door, she felt a gust of dust fill her nose. She sneeze and cough heavily. As her head maid heard Candy loud cough, she sprinted up to see Candy bend over coughing.

"Young miss, are you alright!" She yell exasperated.

"Cough...cough...I'm fine. It's just the dust." Candy said still coughing. But she wanted to see the room and open the door wider. She gasped at what she saw. The room was huge but scary. There was spider webs on the walls and dust on every inch of the room. There was a fireplace, a huge barred window, and a bed! A bed in this tower!

"I guess someone really did live here" she muttered to herself as she look around the room.

"Oh my! Cough! Cough! Don't worry young miss! We will do our best to clean this room for you! It'll be like you never even move!" her head maid said while coughing.

Her head maid was right. Although, it did took quite a few hours and the help of most of the servants and knights to fix the room right up. But the room did look much better than before and most of the dust was cleared out. Candy finally laid on her new bed and looked at the ceiling. She was finally alone. All her maids went back to the main estate. They will only comeback to serve her in the daytime. She was scared but as long as she had her mother's necklace, she felt safe.

"How long will I be here? Will father lock me here forever?" Candy said while crying and realizing the reality that truly hit her.

As the dark night finally approach, Candy was getting ready to spend her first night in the tower. It would be a first time for her to get ready to sleep without the help of her maids. It was hard but she did it. All by herself in the tall tower, she was quite scared. She felt like she could hear voices in the tower talking to her and she cover her ears trying to sound them out. She went under her bed covers and tried to sleep. She clutch her mother's necklace close to her to comfort her.

"It'll be ok. Everything is ok" She kept mumbling to herself. Repeating those words constantly. Then she heard scratching sound and got up immediately.

"Wha..what was that?" she said while trying to see in the dark. She fumble to the table next to her bed for a candle and lit it up nervously. As she lit the candle up, a loom of light flicker in the dark room. She moved the candle left and right trying to see what was making that sound. Then she saw it! It was a group of rats scrawling across her new bedroom! She screamed loudly until her voice was hoarse!

"Help! Help!" She scream but realize no one was going to come. Then she started to cry.

"Somebody! Mary! Anybody!" She still cried out. Her tears filled her eyes making it hard to see. But she was too afraid to moved or get off from her bed. After crying for a while and the rats still moving around in her room, she grew tired of trying to stay awake. It was a rough day and her body needed rest. She put the candle back on the table without blowing it out and pull her bed covers over her. She clutch her mother's necklace close to her and somehow drifted off to sleep.

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