Glass Roses, Cellphones and Happily Ever Afters...
A Cinder-Bella Story
Summary: A Modern Twilight Twist On Cinderella. Bella is treated badly by her step-mom and siblings when she "meets" a mysterious and dashing boy, named ToBeMe on a chatroom. They decide to meet at the Ball. Will he be her happily ever after or another disappointment?
Prologue:
I always thought that the day Mom died was the worst day of my life. She was my best friend, me, Mom and Dad did everything together. We were the perfect family and I had the perfect life, like a fairytale. But the day she died was the day Dad met Sue Clearwater, my Mom's ex-boss. One thing leads to another then a year and a half later, they were married and I had the step-family from hell. Ok, Seth, her son wasn't too bad, but she and her daughter, Leah, were the most evil pair of people I had ever met. Luckily, Dad was still around to make sure I was ok; to make sure I was still loved and cared for. My life was still perfect, just without my best friend, my Mom.
Then, my worst day changed, to the day Dad died in that car accident. He was driving home; he had been shopping for the weekly groceries. He turned a sharp bend in the road when a lorry travelling in the other direction lost control and crashed into my Dad's car. There were no survivors. That was the day my life turned upside down and I became practically a slave in my own home. Sue took over everything, my Dad's little pub, my home, I was moved to the attic and was to attend to their every whim. I had no freedom. I went to school, I went to work, I went home and worked some more, I did my homework and the cycle would start all over again. The only time I ever had a bit of freedom was at school where I hung around with my best friend Jake.
Jake and I had been friends since we were born, we grew up together. He was like the brother that I never had, well until Seth came along. Mom and Dad used to take me to Jake's house all the time, we used to make mud-pies and play all sorts games while Billy and Dad watched the game and Mom and Sarah bake cakes, cooked dinner, did "Mom" stuff.
Although Jake lives in La Push, he goes to Forks High with me. I don't know what I would do if he didn't, I probably would be dead by now if he didn't, I just wouldn't be able to cope. Anyway, he has a major crush on Tanya Denali, but not only is she the most beautiful, popular, blonde, woman in the entire school but she is going out with the most gorgeous, popular jock in the entire school Edward Cullen and unfortunately for Jake, to her he's just the nerd who lets her copy off his math.
Jake and I major in different subjects, I majored in English and Art, he majors in Math and Science…he wants to an engineer – chemical or physical, he's not quite sure yet and I want to be more than I am, more than I dear to dream. I want to go to College in Phoenix maybe, anywhere away from Forks, become an Art professor maybe, travel the world. Have a happily ever after. Jake always told me one day I'd get my happily ever after and this is it. This is the story of my happily ever after and how I found out how to be me...