Author's Note: So just to shed a bit of light on the story. It's based on the game Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. Only this time, to make it more interesting, you have to be 16 to be a trainer. And now it has a Cinderella spin! Enjoy it, thanks for reading!

Prologue.

Today Autumn and Hazel turned 15. Mom made me make the cake. Both of them got their own pokemon too. Autumn got a Plusle and Hazel got a Lovedisc. Mom thinks that they should start training early. But I heard them talking yesterday. Neither of them want to be pokemon trainers, they just want strong pokemon right off the bat. Hazel said that she knows where a Daycare center is, so she wants to drop off her Lovedisc there to be raised. I think it's dumb! Why would they even ask mom for pokemon? I already take care of everything, and now I have to take care of their pokemon. I won't be sixteen for two more years, so hopefully I can leave to become a trainer! I have to go now. I'm meeting up with Brendan But I can't let mom know!

I closed my diary. That was the last entry, dated almost eighteen months ago. The diary was completely full though, so I couldn't write anymore. 1405 entries were in it. Dating back to the time I was six and practiced writing for the first time. But I was fifteen now, about to be sixteen. My birthday was six months away, in May. The month I was named after. Not like anyone around here would know it, my mother chose to call me by my middle name, Agatha... I hated it, but she hated May. When she would write my name down it would say M. Agatha. Well, at least she acknowedges the first initial...

"Oh, Aggie!" I heard Hazel call. My sisters took great joy in my name, and the nickname they gave me.

I got up from my desk and walked over to the door. Well, actually the door frame. Mother didn't trust me enough to have a door... I walked down the rickity stairs that led up to my room. My room was the attic, but I still liked it. It was more privet. At the end of the stairs was the long hallway, Hazel's room was the first door on the right. I opened the door to see her sitting up in bed.

"And why didn't you knock?" She said sharply. I rolled my eyes and walked out of the room. Then I knocked two times and heard "Come in!" I opened the door once again and waited for her instructions.

"Luvdisc needs her pool cleaned outside. And I need some clothes washed. Also don't forget to give me skim milk for breakfast." She spat at me. I turned to see an overflowing basket of clothes. So I crammed them all in and walked out of the room.

I turned the corner of the hallway. This is where Autunm's room is, I was hoping she was still asleep.

"Agatha! Get in here!" I groaned silently, put down the basket, and opened her door. She was too mad at something to notice that I didn't knock.

"Why are you letting my laundry pile up? Do it all today!" She snapped. Autumn was the meaner of my two sisters. Hazel tried to compete with her, but she was no match. While I was gathering all the clothes from around her room, she threw some shoes at me.

"Make sure you shine these too! And I want them back by tonight!"

I finally got all the clothes and shoes. She only nailed me with one shoe, but it hit me right it the forehead. I was used to little injuries like this. Mother didn't care, she inflicted most of the injuries herself. It took every ounce of strenght to lieft both baskets and the shoes up. I couldn't afford to leave anything behind. I turned the last corner in our hallway before the stairs. Unfortunately I had to pass mother's door, and it was open... I tried creeping past as quietly as I could, hoping she was in the bathroom. I was getting away with it! I was almost to the stairs... But her Mightyena saw me and started to bark. It only barked at me...

"Agatha, is that you? Get in here!"

I put down the basket and walked into her room. Mightyena was not happy, so I kept some space between me and him. Mother was in her bathroom... Plucking her eyebrows...

"Yes?" I asked politely.

"Today you need to clean out Luvdisc's pool. Give Mighty a bath, give Plusle a bath-clean out the bathtub after. Then I want you to clean the kitchen floor after breakfast and do all of your sister's laundry. I'll let you know the rest later. Get going!" I practically ran out of the room and heaved the laundry down the stairs. We didn't have a washing machine, but we had a dryer. I didn't really understand it, maybe it was just to make it harder on me. I checked the time, it was only 7:30, but everyone wanted breakfast ready at eight. So I threw the laundry and the shoes into the laundry room and started to make breakfast.

Hazel and Autumn loved to torment me. I would constantly get insulted, pushed tripped, and nagged. Plus they had developed a great aim since I was their personal target. They even tried to get their pokemon to hate me, like Mightyena did, but it didn't work. I was the only one that took care of them, so they refused to attack me.

After breakfast I washed and dryed two loads of laundry. Then I started to wash the floors. I got pretty good at it over the years, so it was done fast. Then I got to do the dishes. Autumn and Hazel would purposely use two plates every morning.

Once I was three quarters of the way done with laundry, my mother walked into the room.

"Agatha, we're going out tonight. Do. Not. Leave. This. House. You can go into the back to clean out Luvdisc's pool, but that is all." She turned on her heel and walked out. Then I heard the commotion of my sisters getting ready. I guessed they were leaving soon becuase I heard a lot of scrambling. Finally the front door slammed shut, and I was alone.

I looked at the clock, it was only one in the afternoon. My heart fluttered as I sighed a sigh of relief. They didn't leave me alone like this too often. Then it took me only thirty minutes to finish the laundry. And about ten more minutes to put it all away.

Giving Mightyena a bath was always hard, so I decided to get it out of the way. He snapped at me and growled. But I was used to it, I learned quickly how to bathe him from a distance. When he was down, I shut him in mom's room. Bathing Plusle was easy cause she practically bathed herself. Next I had to clean out Luvdisc's pool, which I did in about five minutes. I wanted all the time I could up in my room.

Finally I was able to go upstairs. I loved being in my room! Nobody in the whole house came up here except for me. My walls were covered with pokemon pictures that my friend Brendan gave to me. Thinking of Brendan, I looked over to the window. He would usually turn up on the tree that grew right outide my little square window that had no glass in it. Almost every night he would stop by...

I stared at the window from my desk for I don't know how long. Finally I thought that I should scan the house for anything out of place. I would really get it if anything was wrong. After a quick run of the house, nothing was wrong. Everything was perfectly clean. So I went back up to my room, but screamed at what I saw.

Brendan was climbing through my window. When I screamed he fell to the floor.

"Brendan! What are you doing? You scared me to death," I said helping him up.

"Sorry, I just noticed your mom and sisters leaving so I thought I would come visit," he said with a smile. Then he went over and sat at my desk.

Brendan was my best friend. He was also my only friend. I had to hide our relationship from my mom and his dad, Professor Birch. Our houses were right next door. So we had to be crafty. My mom and my sisters would torture me to no end if they knew I had a friend. And his father would probably tell my mom. Usually Brendan would climb up the tree at night and jump into my window. Mom, Hazel, and Autumn would pass out at around nine o'clock or they would be out. After all these years of being friends, we developed a system.

"So how's the workload today?" he asked playfully.

"Heavy... It was laundry and bath day."

"Do you ever think that mom of yours will let my dad give you a starter pokemon?"

"I doubt it! That would make me happy. May being happy isn't allowed in this house."

"Don't you mean Agatha being happy isn't allowed?"

"Shut up."

Brendan and I stayed up in my room talking quietly. We couldn't let Mightyena hear us either, he would certainly rat me out. We kept talking for hours, until we heard the front door open loudly and my sisters arguing.

"Quick! Get out! They'll be up any second!" I said pushing brendan towards the window.

"Alright, I'll see you tomorrow. Don't work too hard," he said as he jumped out the window and onto the tree. I watched him happily as he ran into his house.

But then all the happiness left my body. I forgot to shine Autumn's shoes...

I ran down stairs, everyone was still in the kitchen arguing. I couldn't get to the laundry room... But I had an idea. I slipped out the back door and into the night. The laundry room had a giant window and I always left it open a crack. So I walked around to the window, it was dark, so I figured the door was shut. I climbed inside and turned on the light. Unfortunately, I was just a few seconds too slow... Autumn ripped open the sliding door to see the shoes all over the floor.

"Agatha! I told you to have these shined by tonight!" Her voice was hysterical. "It's eight! Why aren't these shined?"

"I-I-I uh..." I stuttered but my mind couldn't find a good excuse...

"Just! Do! It!" she screamed. But she didn't just scream. Her hand connected with my face perfectly, causeing me to fall to the ground. What choice did I have then? I started to shine the shoes...

And this was just one day.