Disclaimer: I do not own Zatchbell

I love my grandma. I love seeing her smile. I love the way she curls my blond hair. I love the way she talks about mom and her, they tell grand dad to stop by the ice cream store on their way back from church, grand dad says he'll get some - but he doesn't. Oh grand dad.

My name is Sherry. My family is very wealthy. Being wealthy is a way of saying they can afford a lot of things. What my mother can't buy is love. She's gone through three marriages and none of them have ever worked out. It's not because she's cranky and wears glasses and look like a TV school teacher is why her marriages don't work out. No. The reason my mothers marriages don't work out is because she can't express love or sympathy for anyone. Her main concerns are making sure I get higher marks than every other ten year old, to outwit my future enemies, and to crush smaller businesses. And I will. It's not a good future, for me or for everyone, but I will do what my mother tells me...I'm a good girl.

I never see my grandparents anymore. Mom thinks they are telling me lies about the real world. She wants me to think the real world is cruel, that nothing magical happens like in my stories - and I'm sick of it. "Momma knows best. Momma knows best." Momma knows what's best for me, but she doesn't know what's best for her. " Sherry, Sherry," she say to me before bed. " Men are pigs. Don't get lumped in with them. Men are bad."

She said that after her third divorcee.

I'm a lost cause. I tried to jump over a bridge for an end, but all I found was a girl named Coco who jumped in after me. She changed my heart. I found out I'm not a lost cause. I'm Sherry. I'm me.

Ten years after the Mamodo Battle Coco got married to an older co-worker. Kiyo was there. Kiyo was anti-social and anger prone when I first met him. Why is it every time I see him I want to smile? Hmm.

I hate this dress. The bridesmaids dress. It's suppose to look ugly so the bride would be more beautiful. Momma gave it to me. She hated it, I hated it, no one likes wearing this dress. The color reminded me of Brago. I now somewhere he's up there, I don't know where, he's watching me and he's laughing at how ridiculous I look in this dress - he wears black fur coats like that makes him look handsome.

" Do you take this lawfully wedded woman to be your wife, too death do you part?"

I was never alone. Never again.