Thorns And Roses

A young girl, about 13 years old, with messy brown hair and pale green eyes slowly crept down the halls of a huge castle. It was almost midnight on the first Friday of the month of July. Three guards marched past as she sunk into the shadows. The girl let out a sigh of relief but quickly slapped a hand over her own mouth. But she was too late. The middle guard spun around and took aim with his strange looking gun. The girl knew she was done for and was about to step forward so that the guards may see who she was, but before she could even take a breath the guard was pulling the trigger. A green, fowl smelling, fluid shot out of the gun and coated the girl in a sticky green net.
"EEK!" she squealed and she fell to the floor. The light from a nearby lamp lit up her face, and the guards gasped.
"We are so very sorry!" The guards stammered as they got to work cutting her binds. "Please forgive us."
The girl looked shocked at this notion "Forgive you?" she giggled "Forgive you? Why, I have never heard of such a thing in my life!" she bellowed, standing up and dusting of her silk night gown. "Tell me guards. Do you know who I am?" the guards fell to their knees and nodded.
"You are Princess Thorn." they said in unison. At this the girl smiled, she waved away the shocked guards who seemed to be expecting to be beheaded right then and there. She ran out into the garden and didn't stop running till she had reached the old wishing well.
"Thorn?" She whisper yelled. She was well out of sight and ear shot of the castle but there were still the animal guards doing their patrols around the castle grounds.
"Oh shut up you fowl chicken! I'm right here!" another girl walked out from the shadows. She looked just like the princess, she was the princess. The first girl quickly striped off the silk night gown and traded the real princess for a cotton one.
"So you will returned at the new moon and take my execution. Understand?" said Princess Thorn as she admired the silk she had just slipped over her head.
"W-what?!" the girl was shocked; this wasn't part of the plan.
"Well do you want ME to die? I am your twin. Wouldn't you be sad?" the princess spat out in rage.
"But I am your twin also. Would you not be sad for me?" the girl was coming close to tears, how could her own sister be so cruel.
"Why on earth would I be sad for a pathetic little commoner dying?" and with that the princess was off, stomping back to the castle. The girl sunk into a sitting position and wept.
"Rose? Rose is that you?" the head of a 15 year old boy searched around a hedge.
"Oh Rick, she wants me to take her execution!" Rose said, her face streaked with tears and dirt.
"What? That toad! You will do no such thing!" Rick said as he ran to her side and quickly wrapped her in a hug.
"She's my sister." was the only reply Rose could come up with and she hid her face in Rick's shoulder.
"Well I'm your best friend. I won't let her do this." he picked a single rose from a nearby bush and gently tucked it behind her ear.
"You’re just a garden hand. How can you stop the royal pain from having me killed in her place?" Rose asked, looking up at Rick. He was a handsome boy with shaggy black hair and bright green eyes.
"Come on." he said as he pulled Rose to her feet "We are leaving."
"What? We can't. Where would we go? What about our jobs?"
"They can survive. We have no parents. Nothing is keeping us here."
Rose took a long while to think about Rick's proposal before agreeing. The decided they would leave the next day. Rick was determined to get Rose out of this situation. They had, after all, been best friends for as long as they could remember. He was there for her when her sister had kicked her out of the royal family when her parents had died. She had gotten him a job at the castle working in the gardens that he loved. They were going to get out of this. They had to.