A/N: I haven't written in a while because of school… I hope this is at least entertaining..so please, be gentle. -

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, except Zoë and her family.

Chapter 1

Things couldn't have been, well, weirder for Willy Wonka. Everything seemed to go well for him ever since he found Charlie to help him brainstorm. Even the relationship with his father was going well. Well…until few months after he saw his father for the first time in years.

It all started after a fulfilling day of brainstorming with Charlie and dinner at his house. Before he got ready for bed, he went through his mail that came that day, and the day before that, and the day before that….he was too busy to check his mail lately. One was from his father. He put that one aside and flipped through the others; junk mail. He picked up the letter from his father and opened it:

" Son,

There is something I needed to tell you on your last visit, but I was so glad to see you again that I didn't want to ruin the moment. I don't know how

To tell you this, but before you were born, your mother and I decided to

end a feud with another family of a wealthy dentist. It was then decided

that you, my son, and their daughter, who was far from being born, will

be married so the two family businesses could come together. It would be on her 20th birthday. Well, it was a few years later when they finally had a daughter and she will be turning 20 within a few months. I'm sure this comes to a surprise to you and I'm sure your not very happy right now. I'm sorry."

Willy read the letter three times, in shock of this news. He was betrothed? Of course he had no say in this since they decided this before he was born.

He crumbled up the paper in his hand and threw it to the ground. Grabbing his cane, he stomped to his glass elevator and stepped in. He was enraged! How can his parents do this to him over something so stupid?

Willy watched as the elevator took off from his factory and hovered over the earth. His mind was racing with questions to ask his father.

Why the feud? Why would this help the feud? Why does he have to get married? Is there anyway to break up this engagement? Can you really find out how many licks does it take to get to the center of a toosipop?

'Maybe I'm on to something…. No! Can't think of work right now.'

"Ah, here we are." Willy said as he spotted his fathers house in the middle of a big snowfield.

He pressed a button and the elevator started to go down. He tapped his foot impatiently, wanting to get down there faster. When it did, Willy pushed the door open and stomped to the front door fuming. Instead of ringing the doorbell, he banged the door with his fist pretending it was Dr. Wonka's face.

The door opened slowly and an eye peaked out of the door cautiously. After a while, the door opened more reveling the figure of his father.

"Oh hello Willy!" He said almost sounding nervous. "What brings you here."

"Hello, father, I got your wonderful letter!" Willy said with mock excitement, flashing an angry, toothy grin.

Dr. Wonka cleared his throat nervously, his hand going up to the collar of his dentist smock.

"Oh did you now?" He said nervously. "It's a little unexpected-"

"I should say!" Willy stomped his cane to the ground in stubbornness. "I don't wanna get married dad! Especially to a complete stranger!" He hung his head.

Dr. Wonka sighed and shook his head. He put his hand on his son's shoulder trying to show him comfort.

"I'm sorry son…lets go inside and talk about this."

Willy looked up at his dad to object.

"I need to go back and work." He was going to say. But as he looked into his father's pleading eyes, he had no choice but to accept this offer. Willy walked into the house, his stomach feeling like he ate too much double-dipped, cherry chocolate.

Zoë Bluestone was staring at her parents in disbelief. Engaged? To a man that she has never met? Her parents were a bit old fashion but this was ridiculous!

She couldn't help but imagen herself being married to an old looking, rich dentist, who took on the family business of course. While he's out working, she'll be staying home taking care of her 1-year-old son, and infant twins…what a disaster.

"..Wonka!"

Was all she heard her mother said, distracting Zoë from her horrible daydream. She looked up to her mother in shock.

"Um. No thank you…I'm not hungry right now."

Even though Willy Wonka's candy was her favorite of all time. Ever since she was little her parents gave her a Wonka bar for a treat. She always called them "Wonka's. But even her childhood chocolate couldn't kill her despair.

"No sweetie…that's the name of your future husband, Willy Wonka." Her parents smiled at her.

'They have to be joking…oh! This is all a big joke! Well I have to get back at you guys!'

"Nice try, but this is your worse trick yet."

Her parents looked at each other then at her with an annoyed expression on their faces. Zoë hated when they gave her that look, they always gave her that look when she couldn't get a math problem on her homework, it made her feel dumb.

"A joke? Why would we joke about this?" Her mother said.

"Of course we were a little upset about him being a candy maker.." Her father chimed in.

"But his candies go worldwide!"

"So that means that he's rich!"

Zoë stared at her parents, unable to say anything. They were always finishing each other sentences. This was proof that they were meant for each other. College sweethearts. But that's another story and I'm sure that you're not interested in hearing it…

"Why in the world would you do this?"

Zoë's parents told her about a long time ago when her great grandfather was a dentist and a there was another dentist in town. Both did superb jobs on their patients they even use to be friends. But one day something happened. More people were going to the Wonka's for their denial work and it was rumored that he was spreading terrible rumors about the old Dr. Bluestone. The old Dr. Wonka denied it of course. They exchanged words and got into a fight…and well…who knows the real reason for the feud some many stories went around the two families that they didn't know what was true anymore. So when the current Dr. Wonka had a newborn son, they both decided to end the feud if only Willy and the Bluestones first-born daughter get married to combine the businesses.

It took Zoë's parents 6 times until they had a daughter almost 20 years ago.

"And that's the story!" Mrs. Bluestone said.

Zoë shook her head. That got to be joking. None of it made sense to her. For the first time in her life, she wished she was born into a different family.

A/N: The first couple of chapters might be a little slow, but it'll get better! (I hope) Please review!