painter extraordinaire

Painting. How I love it. It takes skill to paint like this. Gwendolen thought as she finished one of her sisters lock of hair on the portrait of Alice. Alice yelled while trying not to move he mouth "Are you done yet." "Nearly... nearly... now." Gwendolen replied concentrating very hard. "This had BETTER be good you have no idea how hard it is to stay still that long." She moved round to look at the canvas "HOW are you such a good painter ?" Gwendolen blushed she didn't get compliments often as a daughter of royalty and being the only girls in their small Kingdom. Alice and Gwendolen were sisters there ashy, coal dark hair and deep ocean blue eyes were rare, wonderful and identical. They were always quite lonely especially since they have 20 brothers, but it made their bond stronger than sisters. Their mother was the only woman in the kingdom so the wanted to make sure she had girls. To keep females in the kingdom "Girls dinner is ready." their butler blane called

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They walked down the stairs and got to the dining room. I was massive and ornate with gold carving looking like plants. It had a gigantic wooden table with a massive red table cloth that was already set with a buffet fit for royalty, because they were, but if you weren't, you would be in aww. Meats of all kinds had been drizzled in gravy and vegetables cut thinly had been set at the side of the plates, and many other delicious foods were set out across the table. The girls ate on one end of the table talking quietly and politely. But the boys talked and roughly fought for the one plate of food that all of them seemed to want to eat. "Boys." tutted their mother.

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"Right calm down." the father ordered taping on a glass. "As you all should know Wednesday is the day you girls will meet your future husbands." "WHAT I thought girls weren't allowed to get married at 14 here and when did you tell us this." Pipped up Alice. We gave one day until we meet our furture husbands one day thought Gwendolen. "I'm sure we can make an exception for the princesses." the girls continued sitting in shock, the boys made ohhhhing sounds at them from the other end of the table "And you boys will meet your future wife's." The boys just gasped and looked at each other as the girls broke into hysteria. "Now if everyone is ready we can have dessert." said the father. "I'm not." said their 8-year-old brother Joseph inaudiblely as he began stuffing the rest of his food into his mouth. The girls rolled Their eyes "boys" tutted there mother again. Their mother had been born a poor farmer's daughter but was married to the king as soon as she was old enough. Another one of the cons of being the only women in their kingdom. Here they treated women like precious gemstones. When the girls had finished dessert, they went back to their room. "This is soo unfair." groaned Alice "I DON'T WANT TO GET MARRIED TO SOME DUMB MAN!" "Calm down we've never met them, they might be nice." said Gwendolen yoused to her sisters rage.

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