Elise (Reboot) ~ School Day

“Check it out – it’s the princess.”

“Aww, how cute; they still haven’t let her become queen yet!”

“Wassamatter, Ellie—still too young to fill your parents’ shoes?”

“And in that outfit, too, echh. Does she live in that dress?”

“Dress, nothing. I’m still staring at her carrot legs, hahaha!”

Elise had to go through this every day she went to school. Her fellow students took every chance they got to mock her. They would make fun of how she acted, what she usually wore, the fact that she was too young to be queen—and the worst part was, it practically never stopped throughout the entire day.

The teachers were of no help either, often ignoring her or calling her out for “tattling” on her classmates. This varied from class to class, but the end result was always the same—a very bad day.

The student who quite possibly gave her the worst attention possible was Sabrina Regis. Being the daughter of Soleanna’s governor made her rather self-centered and haughty already, but Sabrina was a special case in that out of all the students, she was the one who outright reviled Elise—mainly out of jealousy, since Elise was technically of a higher authority than her. But compared to Sabrina, all the other students seemed like angels.

Worse yet, both she and Elise had every single class together – even Homeroom.

Elise walked up to her locker, and started turning the dial on her lock before she felt someone breathing down her neck. An all-too-familiar feeling.

“Heya, ‘Princess’.”

Elise shuddered in disgust. “Hi, Sabrina,” she responded, almost deadpan.

Sabrina had a playful, teasing tone to her voice. Elise could tell she was enjoying herself. “So, how’dja spend your break? Still playing with that rusted old hand-me-down your dad called a sword?”

“Yes.” Elise barely raised her voice. She was pretty much used to Sabrina playing with her at this point.

Sabrina sighed. “When you are ever going to get a new one of those? You’re daddy’s sole heir, right – surely you’ve got the money to get the blacksmith to fix you up something.”

Elise put her palm to her face. “Sadly, no. All that money was split between the royal staff – none of it went to me.”

Sabrina clicked her tongue, putting her hands on her hips, in mock pity. “Poor, poor princess Elise. This just proves my point – daddy should have raised you better. That way, you’d at least get some of his life savings. I swear, royalty is so spoiled, isn’t it?”

Elise glared at Sabrina. “You’re one to talk,” she muttered through her teeth.

As if on cue, the school bell rang. Time to get to First Period.

“Oh!” Sabrina reacted to the bell in false surprise. “I’m so sorry, princess…did I distract you from getting your school supplies? Again?”

“Every time.” Elise didn’t even have to think about her reply.

“Aww, stupid me.” Sabrina was now faking regret for her actions. “I really need to stop running into you like this – I wouldn’t want you to fail your classes.” She paused, grinning. “…Oh, who am I kidding?” She laughed. “See you in History~!”

As soon as Sabrina left, Elise banged her head onto her locker door. “ALL. OF MY HATE.”