Excerpts From the (now) Royal Diary of Her Highness, Princess Aurora

Dear Diary,

I had that dream again. They say if you dream a thing more than once it's sure to come true. How long does that take? Not gonna lie, I’d really love to meet this hottie I keep seeing at night. It’s not that I don’t love hanging out with the aunties all the time, but it would be nice to make some new friends who didn’t have wings or four legs. I swear that owl actually responded to me yesterday when I was berry picking.

Oh yeah, totally forgot to mention that today is my birthday. I was a little preoccupied by Prince Sexypants invading my sleep again...I guess I get a birthday wish, though. Right? Well, I wish that I could meet my dream man soon. Shoot. Is it not going to happen now that I shared my wish? Nah. Totally going to come true. Optimism for the win!

Well, I should probably go see what Flora, Fauna, and Merriweather are plotting for me today...

Love,

Rose

Dear Diary,

Seriously, the aunties couldn’t be more obvious that they are up to something for my birthday. They sent me out to pick berries...which I just did. Yesterday. And they are still sitting in a bowl on the counter in the cottage. But I’ll appease them and hang out here for a while so they can do whatever they are planning to surprise me. I’ll still act shocked when I get home so I don’t make them feel bad.

Oh, my woodland friends are here! Might go exercise my vocal cords with some of the songbirds! Is that weird? Sometimes I’m not sure it’s normal to talk to animals, but I guess I wouldn’t really know since I’ve never met another actual person other than the aunties...

Wow. I sound totally pathetic. *sigh* Whatevs. Time to sing.

Love,

Rose

Dear Diary,

O.

M.

G.

He exists. Prince Sexypants EXISTS. I’m losing my berries! I was singing, and then he was THERE. Ok, I’m freaking out. Like, a lot. A lot a lot. Someone pinch me, because there is no way this is real. My birthday wish actually came true! The guy I saw in my dreams is a real person. And I met him. And he’s even more good-looking in real life than he is in my dreams. He was kind and gentle and like, super manly. Not that I have much experience to go on, but he’s probably the most handsome and wonderful man in the world. Love at first sight? Totally a thing. I’m absolutely in love with him.

But um, I sort of freaked out and ran away and forgot to ask his name - nice move, Rose. *facepalm* BUT, I invited him to my birthday dinner tonight. Hopefully that won’t throw off the aunties plans too much. What are they going to think? I mean, I know they always lecture me on stranger-danger, but he really doesn’t seem like a stranger since I’ve known him for so long in my dreams.

Time to go tell them...I’m sure I’ve been away long enough for them to hatch whatever plan they were cooking up.

Love (what a wonderful word, right?!),

Rose

Oh, P.S. Did I mention he sings? His voice is a wonderful, rich tenor... *sigh*

Dear Diary,

How can the most incredible day ever turn into the worst day ever so quickly? I got home and the aunties had made me an incredible birthday cake and a gown fit for a princess. Which, hey, turns out that’s what I am. What girl doesn’t dream of being a princess, right? I did too, until I found out that being one meant I’d have to never see my love again...and I never even learned his name!

Apparently, I’m betrothed to some guy called Prince Philip since birth and some evil lady called Maleficent put a curse on me when I was a baby, which is why I’ve grown up like a peasant in the middle of the woods. They lied to me for my entire life. Now I have to go live in the palace and marry some prince I’ve never met and be miserable for the rest of my life. Let me tell you, not sure I’ll ever trust anything anyone says ever again.

I don’t even get to see my dream man tonight to tell him what’s going on, which makes my heart break even more. I know he felt the connection between us too and he’ll think I lied or played a trick on him and he’ll think badly of me. But Flora, Fauna, and Merriweather (who, turns out are fairies, btw. Yeah, freaking FAIRIES. Totally not even the same species as me, let alone related in any way) say we have to go to the palace tonight because the curse lifts at sundown or something.

I hate this. I don’t want to be Princess Aurora. I just want to be Rose, the peasant girl who lives in the woods with her eccentric aunts and talks to woodland creatures and sings with random handsome strangers.

Oh, the fairies are summoning me. Time to abandon my happiness forever.

Bye,

Rose...or Aurora, or whoever I am...

Dear Diary,

Ok, whoa. SO much to catch up on. It’s been absolutely crazy here at the palace and I haven’t even had a chance to crack these pages open in way too long. So, last week when I came back to the palace with Flora, Fauna, and Merriweather, I was obviously a wreck (see previous entry!). Well, how’s this for an INSANE story: The crazy lady, Maleficent, showed up and put me in some sort of trance and led me to some little turret in an obscure part of the castle, where she enticed me to prick my finger on a spinning wheel. Apparently, she thought I would die, which she was hoping for since...well, I don’t know why, but is there ever really a good reason when bad people do bad things?

Anyhow, I digress.

Thanks to Merriweather changing the spell when I was a baby, I just fell into a deep sleep. Let me tell you, that was the best rest I’ve ever had in my life. Wow. But next thing I know, Prince Sexypants is hovering over me as I wake up! He’s all like “I’m so sorry, that was NOT how I wanted our first kiss to go, but thank goodness it woke you up! Will you forgive me?”

And I was like, “Wait, you kissed me?”

And he’s like, “Yeah, and I fought a dragon to get to you.”

And I’m like, “What? How did you get here? How did you know where I was? Actually, where am I? And what happened? You fought a dragon?”

(Yeah, I know, I totally word vomited ALL over him. Not my best moment...)

So he says, “I went to your cottage for dinner, but you were gone and Maleficent and her minions were there and captured me. She locked me in her dungeon and told me you were actually Princess Aurora and you’d fallen into an unawakenable sleep unless you got true love’s kiss, which I took to assume meant you also loved me, since why else would she lock ME up, you know. I thought I’d never get out, but your fairies rescued Samson and me and we raced back here, towards the palace, but Maleficent was pretty pissed and turned into a dragon and tried to kill me, but I got her first. Oh, by the way, I never had a chance to introduce myself before you ran off. I’m Prince Philip.”

Yeah, I know, right? I had a pretty hard time believing it at first too. There was NO WAY that everything had magically worked itself out. So I pinched myself, hard. (The bruise is still there to remind me that this isn’t actually a dream.) Then I did the only logical thing I could think of in the moment: Launched myself into his arms and kissed him full on the mouth. I really don’t know what came over me. I’ve never done anything like that in my life...although, actually, I never had the opportunity, so I guess I can’t say that wouldn’t be my M.O. It would be nice to think that I usually act with a little more decorum than that though.

Anyway, then I got to meet my parents - the King and Queen. Still so weird for me to say - parents! I have them! And, bonus, turns out they are pretty cool.

So now that I’ve been here a week, the talk came up about planning the wedding, since it turns out I’ve actually had like, the world’s longest engagement due to the fact that I got engaged before I could even speak...yeah....So, turns out we’ll be married in a month.

What a whirlwind, right?

I love Philip more and more with every moment I spend with him and every detail I learn about him. Oh, and here’s a crazy thing: He dreamed about ME, too! WHAT?!

And I might have accidentally slipped and called him Prince Sexypants to his face yesterday...Yep, that was totally meant to stay between me and these pages, but oh well.

He got this smug grin, so I tackled him with a kiss to wipe it off his ridiculously handsome face. ;) Wow, guess that IS my M.O.

Oh, Diary, what a rollercoaster, but I’ve never been so happy in my whole life. Well, I’ve got a wedding to plan, so until next time...

Love,

Princess Aurora