This is a different take on the Cinderella story, about what would have happened if things were a little different. It is not intended to be about what really happened. Enjoy!
Once apon a time, there lived a happy family. There were two daughters born to the family, and it was a time of great joy. The girls were twins, and the family was very blessed. As the girls grew into toddlers, they were very adventurous and sweet. But things would change soon.
The twins, Anastasia and Drizella, were very close to one another. They rarely fought. As they grew older, they began to understand more things. One day, when they were six years old, Anastasia spotted a cardboard box with something in it.
"I wonder what that is?" the young girl asked her twin.
Drizella shrugged. "Let's go find out!"
The two girls walked over to the box and peered in. Their faces were identical, and they both had small brown eyes. Drizella's hair was dark brown, while Anastasia's had a reddish hue to it.
"There's a blanket," observed Drizella.
Anastasia nodded. "There's got to be something under the blanket," she said.
"Let's see what it is, Ana!" Drizella exclaimed.
Anastasia carefully pulled up the blanket. She gasped when she saw what was under it. There was a tiny face with big blue eyes looking up at them. It was a baby!
The baby had wispy blonde hair on the top of its head. Drizella, who adored babies, stroked the baby's hair.
"Can we keep it?" Drizella asked wistfully.
Anastasia looked around. "I don't see a mother," she noticed. "We should go ask Daddy."
"But what if someone else takes it while we ask him?" Drizella worried.
Anastasia had an idea. "Drizzy, you stay here while I ask Daddy," she told her sister.
Drizella sat by the baby while Anastasia ran up to the house. She stroked the soft hair. The baby looked up at her and made a soft cooing noise, and Drizella knew she had to keep this adorable baby.
Anastasia came back with their father. "Please, Daddy, say we can keep the baby," she was pleading.
The twins' father looked into the box. The baby's face was so adorable that he knew he could never say no.
"We'll have to ask your mother," decided their father.
Annette Tremaine was a kind woman who loved her twin daughters. Her hair was auburn like Anastasia's, but it was curled into corkscrews. She had blue eyes that twinkled like sapphires in her face.
When the twins' mother came to see the baby that her husband had told her about, she could not bear to leave it in the cardboard box while she walked away. She agreed to let the baby be added to her family.
"Thank you, Mommy, oh, thank you, thank you!" squealed the twins. They were overflowing with happiness at the prospect of having a new baby sibling.
The next day, Annette and Robert Tremaine went to the courthouse to adopt the baby. It was a girl, they had found out. They signed all of the paperwork needed, and they officially adopted Cinderella J. Tremaine.
Anastasia and Drizella took wonderful care of their baby sister, Cinderella. She grew older, and soon she was toddling around the house. In that moment, everything was perfect.