Chapter 1: Definitely not Cinderella

Once upon a time…in a far away land, there lived a beautiful maiden named Cinderella. She was raised by her stepmother and grew up with her stepsisters….

Nah…that was just a joke. Today is actually present time and the so called far away land is indeed modern day Yokohama in the Kanagawa Prefecture. The maiden named Cinderella is actually me, but I tell ya…I'm very far from being Cinderella.

The only similarities we have is that both our parents died when we were young but not sure if that's really Cinderella's case because maybe it's only her mother who died. But me, both my parents died when I was young. I was raised by my stepmother together with my stepsister.

Oops! I almost forgot to introduce myself…my name is Yoshikawa, Eri and I'm nineteen years old. I'm a sophomore at the University of Rikkai taking up Arts.

Now back to that Cinderella thingy…like I said earlier, I grew up with my stepmother Yuko, and stepsister, Yuki who were very mean to me just like Cinderella. The only difference is that, if Cinderella has two ugly stepsisters, I only have one and she is damn pretty. The only reason that until now she has no boyfriend is that she doesn't act like a lady at all but a desperate mean spoiled brat instead.

Ever since they came to my life, my life has been nothing but a living hell. They always order me to do tasks such as clean the house, do household chores, ran some errands, do their laundry and I even work as waitress at the Princess Café, the coffee shop that was previously owned by my mother before she passed away. When she passed away, my father married another woman who also had a daughter with her with the same age as mine. First they were nice to me but when my father died they finally showed their true colors.

When it comes to the way my life goes on, I can say that it's definitely Cinderella-like but not really. Coz if Cinderella is a real person, she might have been really pretty or lovely. She might be graceful, elegant and lady like. She doesn't have to wear a pair of thick glasses with thick black frame.

While me…I've been wearing a pair of thick glasses for as long as I can remember and it really makes me look nerdy and it covers my black orbs. I'm not fashionable either. I just wear t-shirts and jeans when I'm out and my hair reaches my waist because my mean old stepmother doesn't give me the time to have my haircut. Lucky me it doesn't look that messy because I just tie it into a ponytail and my hair is just fine and straight unlike Yuki, my stepsister's who is naturally curly.

I don't have mice for my best buddies. But I do have Mako and Kuki for my best friends. They are actually twins and identical but different gender and definitely, personality. Mako dreams of becoming a ballerina and wants to marry a rockstar. Kuki on the other hand, dreams of becoming a novelist and what's weird is that her dream girl is actually Yuki. I've been asking him the question "Why on earth does it have to be her?" and he just answers "Coz I know it's her" and I was like…"Yeah, right, whatever."

I don't have a magical fairy godmother. Coz if I have, I will wish to throw those two meanies out of my life.

I don't leave in a far away kingdom. Like I said earlier, this is modern day Yokohama. I don't dream of becoming a princess. This is reality not fantasy and I'm just a normal girl who is doing her best to finish college to finally break free from the lifetime curse of living with those two monsters.

The last thing that makes me different from Cinderella is that…I don't have this so called prince charming. Again, like I said earlier, this is reality not fantasy. If you look it that way, prince charming is like prince perfection. Well, can't blame them, it's called fairy tale for some reasons. I'm not really interested in dream guys. Those are just distractions from my goal. My main goal is to finish college, then become a mangaka or work in an animating company. Besides, there are no such things as prince charming in reality, they are just fantasies. Some girls tend to dream them because they are too depressed with their relationships and can't seem to find the perfect guy. And the only thing they can do is dream about them.

Now here I am again at the Princess Café, working as a waitress and serving customers.

I'm here standing at the counter of the coffee shop to get the orders of the customers. I noticed that the door opened and a very familiar face entered.

He's here with a different girl again and it's not really shocking. I always see him here with different dates. He has this habit of changing his date every week. Sometimes it makes me think that how come those girls are so stupid to let their selves become a toy of this guy. They are just wasting their beauties for this jerk. A lot of girls say that he is hot like prince charming. Yeah whatever, to me he is rather demonic than charming.

Looks like his seaweed hair is a plus factor to girls….

This is my newest fic...It's the first chapter and it's an Akayaoc fic...Hope you like this...If you do...please review...if you don't...still leave a review...