One.

The Queen loved her King, the kindest, sweetest and a good - looking man in her eyes. They vowed to each other to be with each other till death part them. She became the apple of his eyes. He became her knight in the shining armor.

 

But after the car accident, the King left his Queen alone... crying for her lost for day and night. Till her eyes got swollen up and her face no longer held the beauty that her King used to treasure so dearly.

 

No more beautiful face as white as snow,

 

No more lips as red as blood,

 

and no more pair of eyes as black as ebony wood.

 

Months, years... the Queen waited for her King' return. But no one ever showed up infront of the doorstep, ringing the bell and claims himself as the King that was most-awaited. So the Queen just waited, waited and waited.

 

After three years,the ignorant (to the outside world) Queen just realized ... her King did show up. But not infront of her doorstep. The other doorstep : her kind young neighbour. The neighbour that the Queen claimed as the Snow White. She's the one who cook,d id the laundries and bought the groceries for her. The one who she thought was her another self but in a younger form, she got everything the same as her, the beauty, the hair, the lips but not the ...heart.

 

The Queen's heart was shattered to pieces like the glass, broken and could not be mended. Used to be own by the King who no longer came home, to his Queen.

 

While the Snow White's heart was anew, still young, fresh and kind. Didn't have the same experience as her old neighbour. No broken, shattered feelings.And now, was treasured by a man, a man whom look very alike as the Queen's long lost husband.

 

The older decided to ask the Snow White at the right time. So...she waited. For the second time but this time, to confront the Snow White.

 

As the moon shone the night with its light,with gazillion of stars as it's loyal company. The Queen saw with her eyes and heard it with her own ears, the words that rolled out from the youngster, she felt a powerful pang in her heart.

 

Crash!

 

Her heart was now shattered once again.

 

But this time, she decided she could no longer wait, no longer held the pain that couldn't be cure. There's a new fresh cut but yet the old scar couldn't recover.

 

"I love you.You'll be forever mine.And not the old ugly Queen's.You're my King and I would never let you go,my King."

 

The Snow White just took away her everything! And she hided her king from her! Ah, let they be. Let they lived happily ever after, cried the Queen. So,t he Queen decided to put her apron once again, and to make something that could end one's life quick and painless.

 

After a few hours, stirring, reading back her old potions book. She finally finished.

 

The Poisoned Apples.

 

The Queen held it without fear. She went outside for the last time and wanted to bid goodbye to everything that make her life meaningful and alive. Including the King who was busy with his new lover, the Snow White.

 

Her pale fingers knocked the door as heart raced and leapt. She still love her King,eh? He will be her first love and the last. The sweet memories with him stubbornly lingered and danced in her mind, trying to stop her childish thoughtless act.

 

"Yes?"

 

Her gazes was softened as she stared at her King. He was old but still had the charming smile, and she knew he still had the sweetness and the kindness inside.

 

"You don't remember me,my King?"

 

"No..who are you? Do you need help?"

 

Three last words. The words that used to crawl out of their mouth every single second. And now, she would recite it as the last word before the Fate part them away.

 

"I love you."

 

With that, the Queen smiled melancholy, closing her eyes. She inhaled the last breath and took a bite of the poisoned apple. It was burning her throat but as time goes by, she could feel the pain no longer lingering around her broken heart. It was painless...and there's goes her last breath.

 

The fragile body of the Queen fell limp on the bed of snow,soul-less.

 

Before her soul fully escapes from her body, before her heart stop beating and her lungs stop breathing, the end of her lips twitched up, forming a small faint smile.Smiling to her first and the last.

 

 

Mirror,mirror in the wall,

Who's the kindest and fairest of all?

Not you,Snow White.. but the Queen next door.

She's the kindest and fairest of all.

 

And so the Snow White and her King lived happily ever again, leaving the Queen with her happiness that she would never lose again.