I didn’t know what to do, I was so sad, and exhausted. I spent the rest of the night crying, and as Bree came to wake me up I quickly used the fairy magic around my neck to heal my red and puffy eyes. I didn’t want her to know I had been crying, because she would have worried it was because I wasn’t ready to be queen. But I was ready, more than anything I knew this was what I wanted. I had to forget about Ashe and his dark and alluring ways. I had to forget about his twinkling light blue eyes, the way they sparkled against the luminescent colors of the forest and the stream. I couldn’t think about him anymore, the blush on his cheeks as his deep red hair brushed against his cheek, I couldn’t think about any of it.
I’d never return to that stream, not at night, and not for him, never agai
