लेखक : Genevievebarbie
स्रोत : fanpop.com
Author's Summary : Prequel to बार्बी in the 12 Dancing Princesses. The story of how Prince Randolph and Lady Isabella faced hardships and difficulties and later on, fell in प्यार and got married. This is my first fanfiction so please no flames. Lastly, please read and review!
Rating : T
Category : Romance, Drama
Disclaimer : The main characters of the story are owned द्वारा Mattel. I own all the supporting characters and the plot.

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Chapter 1 : Beginnings

Two 4-year-old twin girls were waiting with baited breath in their pink-walled bedroom. Their father would come soon, to take them to their mother and introduce them to their newborn baby brother. Isabella flopped down on her bed, her reddish-brown hair spread out, bored. She tiredly opened her green eyes to turn and look at her twin, Ilana, who was also in a similar position, but had her dark brown hair in a ponytail. She too was staring at her sister with her brown eyes, though not as tiredly as her.

"When is Papa going to come, Lana? I'm tired of waiting,", whined Isabella, who just wanted to see her brother and go to bed.

"I don't know, he won't tell us anything!", कहा Ilana, in a slightly annoyed tone. She and Bella, as she liked to call her sister, had been waiting for hours now, with no sign of their father.

Slowly, the door opened, and the girls got up, excited. They would finally see their brother! But instead of their father, a maid entered. "Your parents, the Duke and Duchess would like to see आप immediately, girls", she said.

The girls raced down the stairs to their parents with excited squeals, and flew into their father's arms, tackling him in a hug.
"Where's our– " started Isabella.
”–little brother?" finished Ilana. They finally managed to get a good look at their father. Instead of a cheerful grin and bright eyes like they expected, they saw an almost expressionless face and his green eyes like Bella's, were wet. The girls looked at one another. Was their father crying?

"What's wrong Papa?" कहा Isabella, as gently as she could.

Meanwhile, Ilana spotted her mother on a bed, silent tears escaping her brown eyes, her reddish-brown hair was messed up, which never happened. "Mummy?" she asked, rushing to her mother's side.

"Come here, Lana. आप too, Bella."
"Mummy, what's wrong?" "Why are आप crying?" "Where's our little brother?" "Why is Papa crying too?" came the सवालों one after the other.

"Your father and I hate to say this, but…" Duchess Tabitha paused, still crying, wondering how she should continue.

"But what, Mummy?" asked Bella.

"Your brother is gone, girls," came the reply from their father.

"WHAT!? NO!!"

"And now, I have to go too," कहा their mother, her voice cracking, now hugging them as tight as she could.

"No, आप can't leave us! We प्यार you!" sobbed Isabella, unable to believe what was happening. Her whole life was turned upside down in a mere matter of minutes!!

"We प्यार आप so much! We'll miss you! आप can't go!" Ilana cried, her, her sister's and her father's lives would be ruined without their mother!

"I have to, I'm sorry, my darlings,"
"We've done everything possible for your mother girls, it just won't do. She has to go, no matter how much she loves us. It's the only way," Their father said, fighting back tears of his own.

A few और मिनटों passed, in which several "I'll always प्यार you" s and "I'll miss आप so much!"s were exchanged. But the मिनटों passed too soon, and the girls and their father were left hugging their mother and wife, respectively, with no hug in return.

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Meanwhile, in the Royal Palace, things were absolute bliss. A young five-year-old boy, with blonde hair and blue eyes was laughing uncontrollably, as his blonde-haired, green-eyed mother ticked him on his बिस्तर to wake him up from his nap.

"Alright, Randolph, now come on, come down for lunch, your father wants to talk to you," कहा his mother, Lucinda, lovingly.

"That means he's gonna say something boring, isn't he, mom?" The boy named Randolph said.

"Randolph Peter Royals, your father doesn't say something 'boring' whenever he talks to you! So stop saying that!" Lucinda chided.

"Ugh, fiiiine. I'll be down soon," He groaned, and pushed himself of the bed. "Can I at least know what he's gonna talk about?"
"No."
"Aww, please."
"No, Randolph, sweetheart."
"Okay."

As it turned out, his father didn't say something boring after all. Instead, it was amazing! After he slid down the staircase banister and headed for lunch, the first thing his father, Peter, कहा was: "Randolph, son, I have good news for you!"

"What sort of good news, dad?" Randolph replied, curious.

"Your finally going to get the horse-back riding lessons आप asked for!"

"YES!! FINALLY! This is brilliant! Thanks, dad!"

Yes, things in the palace were definitely bliss.

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A/N : Here's the first chapter! What do आप think? I hope आप didn't cry like me, poor Bella and Lana. Please R&R. I'll accept all reviews, including criticism. Just no flames, please.
Edit: Okay, so I read the chapter after posting it, it wasn't as good as I thought, kinda tacky actually. I DEFINITELY need improvement. Bye!

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