Cinderella Dances again
By anime-chikkah.
Introduction
In the depth of an apartment, Sophie laid there—unmoving, not that she wanted to even lift a finger. Her day consisted of cleaning out the hat room (in her work place)—so much dust—not to mention she was highly allergic to dust—she even had red spots smearing on her skin. Not to be vain, but Sophie looked quite the ordinary. Brown hair—not brunette, brown eyes—not hazel eyes and a half pale complexion. In fact, Sophie wasn't that pretty. When her boss, Fanny, gave her a job of sewing some pretty clothes for her two daughter's nightgowns, she was quite impressed, only giving Sophie an extra gold coin.
She was in her apartment, a cheap one that Sophie lived day to day, using up her inheritance from her late parents who had died from so murder and her daily wage. Not being able to mourn, Sophie was given the cleaning job in a hat shop, only to be promoted every five years. It had been two years since working for Fanny, so Sophie didn't really have a choice, she only had two friends in the store, a queer old lady who seemed to disappear almost every day during the year and a teenage girl, who lived with Fanny, she was in charge of being assistant, and yes she was a pretty young girl. Glowing cerulean eyes and straight blonde hair seemed to capture men's attention, so far she caught the eye of a certain count—whom she was going to marry once she turned twenty-one.
Sophie—in any case—had not caught one single man's eye, being an only child took its toll. Often, she would pretend to call someone, to say she actually had real friends out of the hat shop. Sophie's apartment consisted of a bedroom—which was meant to be a lounge room, a small bathroom and a kitchen. Since she was always alone what was the use of having such large open rooms where guests can come and be welcomed by a warm fire. Sophie often found the fridge empty of any foods. Mainly because she usually ate outside—causing her 'healthy' diet go crashing down. She barely slept considering she had to get up at five o'clock, since she couldn't afford the daily tram—it costs two gold coins. Since there weren't any cheap places in the city square of reasonably close she had to move out two hours away from where she worked. Resulting to having purple eye bags.
It was nine o'clock at night and she was more tired than ever. It was two weeks before the Crown Prince Howl's ball. How cliché? Since his parents were too lazy to find him a wife they decided to invite all the ladies of the land—invite them with a letter—of course to come to the ball. So today Sophie was stuck with a list of chores, cooking, cleaning and don't even get started at the list of groceries to buy—since she was too late to buy any fish, she spent nearly one quarter just fishing six snappers—usually she caught yellow-tails, snappers were rare if you were fishing with a rod and line.
She almost got fired when she wronged Lettie—Fanny's daughter—for a another worker. Lettie was most pretty—even more prettier than her blonde friend—Cecelia. Sophie would usually find a different man every day at her feet begging to marry her. Tough luck. She treated every single one of them the same. Her flirtatious smile, then some small talk, takes whatever they give her—about ten gold coins from every man—then says to get lost. A little scavenger, more selfish than her mother but her sister was worse. Margaret Helm. She had beauty of Aphrodite. She was a more enhanced version of Sophie. Beautiful lush, rich curls dark brunette with a touch of red. Sea blue eyes with gold sparks glowing, making her sister seem a low-life, which made Sophie look a like a stupid fool.
Margaret, however, did not like having men at her feet, she liked having them below her feet. She utterly ignored them—wearing the most beautiful gowns—custom made. Sophie barely ever saw her, not that Margaret would even notice her, she ignored everyone except those who mattered like the Crown Prince of Kingsbury. Howl. Margaret was always out—she was—more spoilt than Lettie but not loved. Yet it was true—Margaret could have whatever she wanted, if it meant the death of her dear sister.
Although Sophie's aspirations was just to find love to a man. Little did she know she would find love with the most handsome man on earth.
A:N/ I'm basing it on Cinderella. PLEASE REVIEW! ALthough there are heaps of twists .. . then maybe the happy ending .. .Anything would be great - as a review.But I warn you it'd be a couple weeks per update since I write HEAPS of stories both fanfiction and fiction—so yeah. R.I.P. Rock In Peace, Anime-Chikkah.