The Bedtime Story (part 1)

Once upon a time, there lived a lonely princess, who from childhood had thought she was romised a prince charming. For years, her tender heart watched as all of her good friends recieved there share of love, while her heart remained untouched. Then one day she met a sorcerer who cast a spell on her, making her fall in love with him. Though she wished nothing to do with him, for some reason she found herself pulled in his direction. As time passed, her heart did not shatter, nor did it break, however, it created a hard shell that incompassed her feelings. The sorcerer passed on, but the shell remained. Finally, she thought she`d met her prince. He was everything that she believed she needed to break the shell and make her happy ending. He, however had his princess and his happy ending, thus making the princess fall into a pit of despair as her heart became more and more of a prison. The princess then vowed that she would never again look at another man again for fear of either breaking her heart or again surrounding it with another layer. A long while passed as the princess moved on with her life still remembering her vow, until one day a brave knight came by. The princess had never met anyone like him before and as much as she was intruged by his kind and generous spirit, she could not allow herself to be free from her promise. Scared, the princess tried to run away and find protection. While trying to find protection she came upon the man whom she was trying to run away from. It was only there that she found true protection from the only thing that she was truly trying to runaway from...herself...