I never wanted for the prince to fall in love with me as I knew it would cause some of the most annoying complications ever. I mean I had to run to a different country and then sail the Pandric Ocean, just to escape the infernal irritating is that! Oh, but that's not all, no he has to go and spread disgusting rumours about me and my family. Hateful man. One thing I do have to thank him for though is being able to meet my darling. Without that stupid prince I would never have been able to meet him. That is the sole redeeming point he has in my book. Hmph. Well anyway I shall tell you my story now.
The True version.
It all began when an invitation to the royal ball came. I was in the garden having afternoon tea when my two stepsisters, Rosaline and Lilliana, came rushing out (as fast as was proper, mind you).
"Ella, look! It is an invitation to the royal ball!" That was the first thing they said, and while waving bits of paper about too. They then proceeded to sit down and join me only all they could talk about was the ball. After a few minutes of their incessant chatter I excused myself to continue my experimentation. I love my sisters, I do, it is just that when they get excited they start to babble and I cannot handle them when they begin to babble.
Over the course of the next few weeks I was forced to go dress shopping with Rose and Lilli and it was one of the most dull and dreary experiences I have ever had the misfortune to have. I flat out refused to have a dress made for myself but I sincerely wished that I had because after a full two days of pleading wheedling and whining they eventually gave up and called Selena. That was one of the most frightening experiences of my life and most probably my future life too. The only good thing that came from that was that I did not have to endure through any dress fittings. Thank heavens for that. Dresses were not the only necessities of attending a royal ball however. The carriage had to be immaculate, the footmen needed new livery, the horses had to be in excellent health and condition and dancing and etiquette lessons were needed to polish our skills. As you can see, far too much fanfare.
After an extremely long month of preparation it was finally the day before the ball. It was finally time to put my plan into action. I was going to fake ill. I had been planning this since Selena was involved but it was one of the highest risk plans I had ever concocted. If it went well I could skip the blasted ball but if it all went south I would have to go anyway and face Selena's wrath which was no joke. While my sisters were almost bouncing off the walls, so excited they were I started Phase 1 - Retire extra early. Soon after the evening meal I complained of a sore head and quickly excused myself. I felt bad about lying to Annabelle, she acts like she is my true mother not my stepmother and is the kindest person you will ever meet. It could not be helped though, if I wanted my plan to work it had to happen. Everything went according to plan after that and finally Annabelle, Rose and Lilli left for the ball. I, foolishly thinking that I would be left alone, went to my laboratory and continued the potion I had left until I had plenty of time and peace to finish. I had finally completed it to a stabilised point when I felt something was off, I put my spell down and slowly turned around. Standing there was my worst nightmare, the destruction of my peace of mind, even worse she was glaring at me with pure unbridled fury and sadistic glee. I began frantically thinking of a way to extract myself from this self imposed peril.
Standing there in front of me was Selena.
Okay, hi. I have no idea how to do this and I'm doing it on my iPod which doesn't help but anyway I got this idea a while ago about cinderella while reading a book. I thought what if she didn't love the prince but someone else and he was obsessively in love with her, then it progressed into me thinking why not just turn everything on its head. I eventually thought why don't I write it on FFN 'cause I mean I've just read things up till now.