I was told my prince would save me. He would come and slay the dragon and we would ride off into the sunset on his white steed and we would live happily ever after……and that would be great and all but they didn’t tell me how long it would take. No one said I would be trapped in isolation with nothing but a fire breathing dragon to keep me company for years, and I mean years. I would sit by the window of my tower waiting for someone to come and rescue me, I dreamed of that day so much sometimes I actually believe it had happened and I was heartbroken to find every morning I woke in the same tower instead of a palace or with some prince. As the years dragged on and on and on I began to wonder if maybe my prince had simply forgotten about me or perhaps he found another princess’s or maybe there was no prince coming after all. Perhaps I was just a Princess locked in a tower. The thought had been absurd, why would I be locked in a tower if not to meet my Prince Charming who would risk life and limb to save me from the terrible dragon? I had gone half mad thinking about it. I paced the tower tossing the idea over and over in my mind. This was not how it was suppose to go. The Princess, that was me, was suppose to be locked in a tower and saved by her Prince Charming and they would be wed and the entire kingdom would celebrate and they would live happily every after with children and life would be good. My heart felt like it was going to burst, the room was spinning so fast. I had to sit down. Nothing was going to plan. Nothing.

My prince wasn’t coming and the terrifying fire breathing dragon wasn’t all that terrifying. Sure Lexi was scary at first but after like thirty years I saw her as more than just a terrifying dragon. She became somewhat of a friend- even if she barely acted like I was there and threatened to scorch my face if I got to close to her. I looked around my tower which was more like a prison after all these years and I glanced out the window. Somewhere out there was a price who was suppose to be rescuing me . The more I stared out at the wide world with no walls or dragons or rivers of lava to keep them trapped the angrier I could feel myself becoming. Finally I had decided enough was enough. Prince or no prince I was getting out of here one way or another. As if sensing my plan Lexi, who was sleeping, suddenly woke and a stream of fire suddenly appeared.

“Shut up Lexi. I am sick of waiting for some Prince Charming” I snapped. I gathered my things and tied

Them together in a bundle. The tricky part was getting out of here. The first thing I had to do so take care of Lexi. No matter how much I thought it over I couldn’t bring myself to kill her. I would have to trap her somehow. The good thing about a stone tower was that Lexi couldn’t burn it down. All I had to do was trap her behind one of the rooms in the tower and a bunch of stone. While Lexi fell back asleep I spent the day gathering pieces of loose stone that had fallen throughout the years, another reason to get out of here, stone turned out to be a lot heavier than expected and the dress only got in my way. Eventually I got sick of tripping over my dress and found a discarded sword and cut my

Dress until it was just above the knee. Sure with the stone piled in front of the door and my stuff packed I was finally ready to go. Hopefully Lexi would just sleep until I was gone.

Hope was for suckers though because as soon as I had began my escape I heard Lexi waking up. She was trained to keep me here but my stone barrier seemed to be doing its job. I had to hurry. It wouldn’t hold her back for long. I ran toward the bridge. With one look back I crossed the bridge toward the kingdom and toward freedom.