Cinderella, known as Ella, lived in a small damaged chateau on the out skirts of Lyon, France with her stepsisters and stepmother; her dad died shortly after he'd remarried. It's hard to think Ella's still sweet with the way her "family" treats her and all. Her stepmother won't buy dresses for her; her "room" is the attic. The things she wears are either her late mothers or she sewn them herself. The biggest issue she has to act as a servant for them. She does the laundry, dishes, and grocery shopping herself, which can be a problem if she forgets the milk. Ella was a senior who was ready to apply for colleges, as were her sisters who seemed very down, insisting she reread their essays and math homework; which for them was very rare.
Drizella, the oldest was the angriest person you could ever meet she was always looking for ways to make Ella look tacky or fake. Drizella hated Ella for her success in school and looks without makeup; Drizella wore a lot of teal shirts and brownish green pants, strange for the fact that she had a huge walk-in closet full of designer clothing.
Anastasia was a different story, she wasn't as mean as Drizella but still humiliated Ella in front of everyone in the school, the subject shouldn't discussed at the moment. Anastasia was a lot like her sister except in the department of fashion instead of wearing teal she wore pink, a fuchsia semi dressy shirt and a lighter pink skirt. It may have been a little tacky but she made it look nice. Drizella also despised her sister only because she could pull the outfit off, and even be a little sweet to Ella.
In this school there was one boy who everyone swooned over except the other guys, they wanted to be him, and his name was Henry. No one called him that his nickname was Charming since he could probably get out of homework with his winning smile, not that he did unless he wasn't telling anyone. Beside the point every girl was hoping he'd ask them, especially Ella though she knew her chances were slim to none. "Ella! Didn't I tell you not to take my clothes!" Drizella screamed breaking the beautiful morning's silence.
"I never went into your room Drizella, let alone your closet." Ella said calmly.
"I took the skirt Drizella, I'm wearing it today" Anastasia admitted glumly, as if waiting to be chewed out.
"Oh, well good Ella better stay outta my room!" Drizella said taken aback at first, then recovering fast.
"Okay Drizella, will do" Ella said under her breath.
"Girls, are you ready now?!" Lady Tremaine asked, she was an older women grayish hair all bee hive style other than that she looked like a female Snape.
"Why is mother going to the doctor in the morning, she acts like we're going to marry his son or something?" Anastasia complained to her sister.
"I believe her foot is acting funny again." Drizella said with her nose high in the air.
"Odd, didn't this start when she tried on that one shoe that was too small to go to that party?" Anastasia asked.
"Yeah I think so. But those shoes were to die for!" Drizella gushed.
"Oh, don't I know it!" Anastasia said.
"I can't wait for prom; hopefully they have my size for those shoes." Drizella said scornfully.
"Neither can I, maybe that hot rich guy will ask me out." Anastasia pondered.
"Are you kidding he'd ask out Ella before you any day." Drizella scoffed.
"Oh." Anastasia said sadly and turned to leave with Drizella in front.
When Anastasia and Ella were alone they were quite like friends, but the Drizella would waltz by and turn the situation around.
Ella ran up to Anastasia and said comforting,"Don't you let yourself down; everything will straighten out for you."
"You're just saying that!" Anastasia said with tears in her eyes.
"No I'm not, why would I want you to feel bad about yourself?" Ella said with a slight smile, knowing that Anastasia wouldn't know the answer.
"Well because I can… lengthen your chore list? No you wouldn't want that. Then I don't know." Anastasia said unsure.
"See then I had to have been genuine. Doesn't it?" Ella said making sure not to attract the attention of Drizella.
"I guess," then a great idea popped into Anastasia's head. "Um, Ella would help me; you know, uh, find a date to prom?" Anastasia said quickly.
"Absolutely, I'd love to help you!" Ella said enthusiastically.
"Okay, how about after volleyball tryouts, since I do know you're gonna do that, we go to the mall and look around?" Anastasia said surprised.
"Well how about we go to the library and get some fashion books, find something you like and then go through your closet, modify things, then hit the mall?" Ella said wanting to start at the bottom and work up.
"Um, okay. Now don't take this personal- Ella, leave me alone!" Anastasia said to cause a diversion.
"My goodness! What on earth happened?" Lady Tremaine said as they all got into the car.
"Ella says she wants more clothes!" Drizella said accusingly.
"Now Ella, you have plenty of clothes why would you want anymore?" Lady Tremaine asked.
"I guess I think that everyone else is so much luckier than me, but that isn't the case at all." Ella said not wanting to start a fight.
"Well good you see your mistake. Now let us be off then." Lady Tremaine said.
"Okay mother." Drizella said, not satisfied.
The drive was silent; Drizella kept glaring at Ella which was normal. Lady Tremaine was filing her nails, Anastasia was checking her makeup and little Ella took out her notebook and drew some ideas for Anastasia to look at later. When they arrived at the office the tree got out and left Ella to manage for herself, again. Ella wasn't paying close attention when Anastasia came back 'looking' for something.
"Oh my gosh! That's beautiful!" Anastasia said, making Ella jump.
"Really? I don't know, it seems a little too much for your complexion." Ella said unsure of herself.
"I'm absolutely sure it's perfect! Hey don't you know how to sew?" Anastasia asked.
"I do, but where would I find the fabric?" Ella asked.
"I'll take care of that! How long do think this would take?" Anastasia asked excitedly.
"Sewing won't take but a day; the measurements might take longer, though." Ella said looking over her stepsister.
"Well, I do have a mannequin that is my exact size… but the shoes will have to be super large." Anastasia said sadly.
"Uh-oh, your mother's looking for you." Ella said looking at the door of the office.
"Oh, may I borrow your notebook?" Anastasia said with pleading eyes.
"Ok, but I need that back before Home EC." Ella said warningly.
"Alright, thanks so much. You're really nice, you know?" Anastasia said pleasantly.
"Thank you, you're really sweet, Anastasia." Ella said with her best smile.
"Bye for now." Anastasia said flushed.
At school everything was the same only select few would talk to Ella but Ella did have a few good friends, her best friend was named Jaq. He wasn't a popular person by a long shot, but was perfect for Ella and Mary, Jaq's girlfriend. Ella was walking with Jaq and saw a kid standing, shaking really, who was cornered by Lucifer, the school bully praised by Lady Tremaine since he was a family friend.
"Now, maybe you didn't hear me, I said I wanted some money or you'd get a fist to your little round face!" Lucifer said as Ella ran to the cowering student.
"Lucifer if you want money go somewhere else! He clearly doesn't have any on him or he would've given it to you!" Ella said trying to attract the attention of a teacher but noticing no classes were around.
"Fine! But I will be back!" Lucifer said defeated.
"Now are you okay?" Ella asked the still scared person.
All he did was shake his head not wanting to answer. Jaq was by Ella's side the whole time and motioned to Ella not to worry.
"Hey, buddy, its okay Ella here just wants to help. She's nice. Not like Lucfy at all." Jaq said putting a calming hand on the boys shoulder.
The boy looked up then shook the dirt off his pants and stuck his hand out to Ella. "Hi, I'm Octavius, or Gus for short." After Ella shook his hand he stuck it to Jaq. "And you are?"
"Jaq, what grade are you in?" Jaq said and shook Gus's hand.
"Senior, I take so are you two?" Gus said.
"Yeah, what class do you have right now?" Ella said joining the conversation.
"Uh, English with Mrs. Prudence." Gus said taking a look at his schedule.
"Same with the both of us, come on we'll show you around." Ella said sticking her arms out for them to take as they walked to the classroom.
So, I'm so happy with this story, how was Lucifer, was he mean enough?
I know Anastasia wasn't that nice until the sequel but let me have fun.
Just so you know most of the animals will be human