Kind of a Cinderella Story

1. Chapter - Edward

 My brother is mad! And I mean my youngest brother. I have two brothers. Both younger. And Frederick has gone mad! I mean our father is THE KING and he thinks it would be a good idea to marry a COMMONER to create better ties with our people? Hello? This is the 18th century! Our people have to respect us!

"Calm down, Edward!", my brother George says.

"Calm down? He is going to ruin our reputation throughout the royal houses all over the world and you tell me to calm down? Are you insane?", I shout a t him.

"I do neither approve of this idea, but we cannot solve this problem while shouting at each other!", George tries to soothe me. He has always been the calm one. But right now he is not really helpful.

I hate when Frederick comes up with stupid ideas. Something usually gets broken. Like when we were still children and he had the idea of doing archery inside. I said it would be a stupid idea, but George and Frederick went ahead and did it anyways. And what can I say? They broke some really expensive antiquates.

Now Frederick finally raises his voice again. Well, he whispers. He is intimidated by me. "But you heard what father said. We need to build up a better connection to our people or it is quite likely that they will start a riot!"

I hate it when he is right, but marrying a commoner seems as a bad solution to me. Probably the worst one ever.

"You know that there are better solutions for that! A marriage won't solve that!", I state.

"Maybe not! But your arrogance is even less helpful", shoots Frederick back.

Anger rises up in me. "Sorry, I did not mean it like that!", Frederick whispers.

I decide to be the better man and just leave it with a deadly glance at him. In silent we continue our rideto our summer residence. I guess this will be a great summer.