Heads up! I don't know if they have anything I say about Japan but, please forgive me if I get it wrong! I don't mean to do that, I'm sorry!

SUMMARY: Riffia was a normal teenage girl. She was a bookworm, that read way too many fairy tales for her age. The only thing she ever wanted to do was fit in, find her prince charming and do something dashingly awesome that no one would believe her. One day, her world was turned upside down.

Riffia: A Twisted Tale

Chapter One: Wishes Do Come…

Riffia Blackwell was a misfit of the family and society. She looked like a misfit and played the part well, everyone thought. But they were dead wrong. Riffia was really normal if you looked at it. She had mousy brown hair, amber colored eyes, and glasses. Her glasses were not geeky, or weird. They made her look smart. Which was partly true. She was smart…but she hated to show it and when she did…things got ugly.

She wore normal clothes that were in style and she walked normal too. She talked well, and smiled wonderfully. What's wrong? Well, Riffia was different because she was in Asia. Now, you see? Riffia Blackwell is would have looked normal in other places, but her parents had to move to Asia. She hated it. Out of all the places in Asia they could of picked; they picked Tokyo, Japan.

"Mom, please! I don't fit in! Don't go to the Parent Teacher Conference! Mom!" She was pleading her mother. She came down the steps to the small apartment. She was winding down the stairs chasing after her mother who was more than determined. She was going.

"Riffia, your grades are fine and you look great. What's the matter? You aren't weird or crazy or double trouble. I'm going." She said in a tone. She walked out the door of the apartment complex. She started to walk away in her heels clicking against the pavement. Busy people passed by her and Riffia could no longer see her. A oriental guy about her age ran up to her. Oh no. Not Jin…

"If-E-Ah! If-E-Ah! You forgot your science book at the school." Jin butchered her name, but not as much as other people did. He handed her a science book.

"Thanks, I got to go inside and finish my science homework." She said. Jin looked her in a puzzled way. Then, he shrugged it off and left. He started to walk down the sidewalk turned around to say something, but Riffia was gone.

Riffia went to a school in Japan that was English. They spoke and taught English very well but how they butchered her name…She couldn't stand it. If-E-Ah, Ruff-a, Reef-na or Ran-a. It was specifically Re-fee-ah. She got top grades, and she could speak some Japanese excellently. She ran up the stairs to her apartment, feeling like she was going to cry. She laid on her bed, still hearing the tapping of her mother's bright red heels.

Tap, tap, tap

She tried to calm her self down by singing a song, but she choked up the words. She reached over to grab her guitar, and sang the song over and over. She loved the song. She wrote the lyrics herself and it will calm her down in any moment.

Living in a world misery

Where I just don't fit

trying to make happiness

my life has just been hit

my heart

is black and blue

It never seems to part!

Chorus:

I wanna' live in a fairy tale

So I can have a happy ending…

I want to be the best I can because it just

Not working…

Princes and happy endings

Is what I want!

Cause my heart is pending

I want to be that princess

Who gets a

Ever After!

I want to have some laughter…

Chorus

I'm living the life

Of misery

I just want one thing in store

And it's on sale

That's what I want…

A life in a fairy tale

She laid her guitar down on top of her bed. It was now getting dark and she could see the street life of Tokyo. The bright neon signs, and cars blaring their horns. She heard people playing their pianos softly. She looked up to catch a glimpse of a star any star. But there were none she could see. City life…Sigh She started to have tears trickle down her face. She took out her loose leaf paper and wrote her mother a note.

Dear Mama,

I went out to catch a glimpse of the stars. See ya soon. Told you so…

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Riffia

She grabbed her short brown corduroy jacket, wrapped her multi colored scarf around her neck and slipped on pink gloves. Her apartment complex was on the outskirts of Tokyo, it cost big bucks even for this apartment but it was home to them. The complex was on the side of a big hill so if you walked up it, you could see the stars. She walked up the winding road. She saw many Asians pass her staring up to see her. They glared, and looked at each other and giggled.

She was finally at the peak of the hill and she sat on the warm meadow grass. Wow, what a view all the stars before me. She sat there alone in the night. She felt chilly, but warm inside. She felt loved. She counted the stars and found constellations. She felt someone behind her. She turned and saw her mother. BIG trouble now!

She sat coolly next to her, and said "I can see what you mean by, that school. They were even kind of rude to me. Well, you have a 4.0 GPA, that's great!" She smiled wrapping her arm around Riffia. "Well, I'm ordering pizza and milkshakes. Any flavor you like; to celebrate your grades."

"Um, let's see…Taco pizza and a Strawberry milkshake. Salsa on the side." She smiled. She wasn't in trouble after all! YES! Her mother nodded and started to walk down the hill. She watched her until she was to far to see. She was so nice? She usually blew up like a grenade when people got on her nerves. Maybe she already blew up.

She watched the stars, and moon reappear after clouds pass it. It was really beautiful, and she was the only one to see it. She counted the stars again and she finally counted 100. She closed her eyes and wished. She wished hard and hoped it would come true.

I WANT to live in a fairy tale.