NotJustaBook's Entry: Cinderella (Really Friggin' Did Not Want to Go to That Stupid Ball)
This is Ellen, known by her stepsisters and stepmother as Cinderella. Quite the pretty girl, and she looks so happy, right? Well, she isn't. I just forced her to smile and she's doing her darn best. Thing is, though, she hasn't had the best of days.
She got up very early to do all the chores her relations made her do so that she could finish her books, and then it all began when her stepmother told her she couldn't go to the ball that the prince was holding to find a wife.
"Oh no, what a tragedy," she said.
The stepmother, not sensing her biting sarcasm, laughed evilly and said. "Yes, truly, you must be in agony, because one of my daughters will marry the handsome prince!"
"Mm, yeah, sure, whatever. Have fun."
Her stepsisters came into the kitchen next: "I have heard that mother won't let you go to the ball. What a shame!" the first said. "I'm sure that the prince will marry one, if not both, of us!"
"Yeah, that's kind of illegal," Ellen said, hardly looking up from her book.
"He will not be able to resist our charms!" the other stepsister said, and then they left, giggling menacingly because they thought she was jealous.
She wasn't; she was annoyed because she had wasted precious minutes listening to their nonsense - she had a book to read! She finally finished it, but much later than she had expected. It didn't matter much, though, because it had been an amazing book.
She happily went to sleep next to the fireplace, as she was wont to do, but then...
"My poor, dear child!"
She opened her eyes to stare at... a thing. A pink thing. "Um... hi?" she said.
"My child, I am here to grant your wishes! I will help you get to the ball!"
"WHAT?! No!" Ellen had no interest whatsoever in going to the ball. There was that book she needed to finish tomorrow...
"My dear child, your wish will come true!"
"Wh-what have you done?!" Ellen asked, but the fairy was already shoving her into a carriage and tearfully asking her to come back before midnight.
"What if I want to come back right now?!"
"Goodbye, my child! May all your wishes come true!"
"Not bloody likely!! And where are my reading glasses?!"
At the ball, the big oaf of a prince, of course, fell in love with her. Shallow guy. And he would hardly let her go, so all night she was absolutely utterly bored, dancing away. His conversational skills were about on par with that of an armadillo with leprosy. And that's being mean to the poor armadillo.
She finally managed to sneak away from the prince when he went in search of a snack, and she hid. When a gentleman approached her, she shot him an angry glare and said: "If you ask me to dance, I will
end you."
"Oh god, no, that's not what I had in mind," he said. "I hate parties. I'm only here because my mother thought that I could grab one of the ladies that the prince doesn't want. Really, I had this book I'd rather read..."
"Really?" Ellen beamed.
"Yes! Hey, what do you say we ditch this party and go to the library?"
"I think I'm in love."
And Ellen proudly put on her nerdglasses once more (the fairy had hidden them in her pocket... sneaky fairy, who knew ball gowns had pockets!) and ran off with the cute nerd to find a library.
And the prince? Well, the fairy godmother thought she might as well get herself some of that prince now that Ellen didn't want him, and honestly he could barely tie his own shoes, so he was happy with someone who could actually put together a coherent sentence.
And they all lived happily ever after. Or something to that effect.
The End!
I've used plenty of CC dresses and hair in this, and the castle is from
here (it feels right to credit it - and gush a bit about how amazingly gorgeous it looks, holy snapcracker it's awesome!)
It's all right. I'll get over it eventually.
