Violette is Annie with a crossover of Cinderella who finally escapes the orphanage of hell and winds up in the most epic story of her life. It's time to stand up and be a woMAN! Based off all the game's story lines, and includes every genre evah.
I wake up at 4 AM every morning, get dressed in my uniform, and go downstairs to set the table for breakfast. After that, I eat in the kitchen with the cooks and Chiyo and Roku, my only friends in the orphanage besides the cooks and the people I meet only when I escape this iron enclosure for a little while. Breakfast is always the best for us, since the cooks like us more than Mademoiselle Gennevive, the evil dictator of Hallowed Orphanage, and the rest of her snobbish zombies.
After breakfast, Chiyo and Roku help me pick up and wash the dishes while the cooks help clean the dining room. It takes a little over an hour to pick up for 67 kids. Especially since they like making this job challenge by throwing food and breaking new plates.
After doing chores, like scrubbing the tiled floors and making everyone's bed-ect.-I hang out on the roof and remember how life used to be.
How it was before I was Annierella...
Living with my parents on Destiny Island, in a gigantic mansion that overlooked the sea and where you could see the skylines of the nearby island cities. Every Saturday, there were fireworks, and we would raise hundreds of dollars from tickets and give the money to charities. I didn't think it would end...
Who the hell was I kidding? My parents were old! Well into their sixties when I was six. My world came crashing down when they died. I sobbed for weeks until the will was found, stating that everything they owned was mine, including the mansion, but I had to go live at the orphanage until I was old enough to do something with it.
Cool, right?
WRONG!
Apparently, Mademoiselle Gennovive-the bitch all bastard all-did NOT like that, and since then, she's made my life a living hell. But I don't complain. I do what I'm told, and I always follow through.
What else is there to do?
There's a light in this darkness, though. Watching sunset outside my attic chamber on the roof is quite nice. I found a secret window behind a hanging rug, and found I could squeeze through it (only, the bust part was tricky -.-'). But I miss being able to watch the colors change on the island where the water and the horizon meet. It's at its most enchanting then. But I can deal with the roof of the orphanage.
Bust I'm so close to my sweet sixteenth and I want it to be special. So, what's more special than going home to Destiny Island?
That's right-absolutely fucking nothing.
But how the hell am I supposed to get there with no ticket or escape?
I'd always wished that Captain Hook or Jack Sparrow would come and take me away from this place, and Prince Charming would marry Chiyo, and Roku could finally be with his all-time favorite crush-Peter Pan. (No, Roku is not straight.) But that was a fairy tale, and I belong in this usual, ordinary world. It's the only place where I'm sustainable.
Besides the island...
From up top this rough and callused roof, I can see Destiny Island, far off in the center of a shallow atoll. All I've been doing for the last four hours is stare at the distant lights of homes and parties that last 'till morning. I wish I could be at one of them. God knows it would be a billion times better than staying here would be.
:/
Suddenly, there's a light pressure on my shoulder that lasts only for a second. "Violette?" A sharper pressure. "Hey, Vi?" Sharper still. "Vi!"
My head whips to the speaker kneeling by my right, my heart rate soaring in terror. I end up groaning at Roku's cutely obnoxious expression of pure entertainment. "Yep?" What is he doing up here at two in the morning?
"Robin pissed her bed, that skank," He glares hard at me as if I'm her. (BTW: Robin is a girl who is cruel and mean to all-cuz she secretly wets her bed-but Roku's too kind to tell on her.) "So can I hang out with you?"
I sigh, hiding the fact I feel more of joy than exasperation, and pat the ground beside me. He claps and jumps up like a super-high toddler, and falls on his butt beside me. I guess he fell too hard; he groans, and repositions himself, wagging his ass like a dog would its tail. I laugh quietly at him until he's settled and glaring at the horizon like it's got something to do with it. I clear my throat, whistling like nothing happened, turning my head away like something's grabbed my attention.
"Hon," He says, "I really doubt there's a freaking fly up here at two in the morning." Jus then, one lands on his hand.
I look at him, then flap my hand at the fly. It buzzes over the side of the roof, then drops dead.
Literally.
"...That sucks." Roku murmurs. We exchange glances, then bust out in to the most unstoppable laughter until we've run out of air.
"SO," He breaths once his breath is back, "what do we have here?"
"Destiny Island," I reply softly, smiling to myself in the Tucson light.
Roku sighs, and stares at the flashing party lights emanating from a close building that holds a neon sign. "Don't Flare and Drive" it says with a little Honda in the corner and a Japanese man waving a flame-thrower outside the window. "Y' know, you should be able to go there for your sixteenth." He stares at the flawless side of my face. "Ya know?"
"Mmm," I murmur, scratching my chin sarcastically.
He scoffs, but smirks, and goes back to staring at the island. "You'll be sixteen the day after tomorrow."
"You mean the day after today," I check.
He shrugs. "Same thing!" I smirk at the blasted reaction of just having someone out-fact you. God, I love this kid. "Why don't you go, and, like, let Chiyo and I do your chores for a while?"
IF I had any water, I'd do a spit-take. Instead, I guess my horrified wide eyes will suffice. "Wh-NO! No way, Roku! They're my chores, and I don't want you getting in trouble for them!"
Roku looks a little scared at first, but it soon turns to laughter. "Hey, Chiyo and I have made this choice! We've got nothing' wrong with doin' this for ya. Even the cooks are willing to help." Then he gets those irresistible puppy-dog-eyes. "Pweeeease? Wit a chewwy on tawp?"
I take my time to consider this. I love my friends, and I don't want them getting hurt. But Destiny Island... Home is so close, yet so far. And one ticket gets you there and back. Roku and Chiyo aren't stupid-they know what they're doing. I can trust them, and they can trust me. I could go-but for one day and one day only.
I finally end up play-punching his shoulder and smiling a little more openly. "As long as you don't punch anyone's lights out-"
"Of course not, hon!" He sings.
"-and you don't bitch about it when I get back-"
"No way, dear!"
"-and you don't attack Juda with your tweezers again-the last time you did that she bitched to me about how you'd picked out all her eyebrow hairs."
"Hon-ey," He scoffs, flapping a hand at me in disdain for the girl. "That monster had a uni-brow, and there was no way I was gonna let that gorilla destroy the world of fashion with her skanky ass. I mean, how horrible would that be?" He shakes his head almost furiously and starts to twirl his fingers. "Anyway, I'm, like, totally happy you decided to go to the island cuz I thought I was gonna have to give this boat ticket-" Magically, there's a ticket in between his index and middle finger. "-to someone else!"
I gape at it, stretching my fingers out to delicately stroke the paper before take it carefully in my own fingers. "How..." I whisper after a moment of shock. "How did you..."
"Chiyo stole it from Queen Skank," Roku says, meaning Mademoiselle Gennevive. He hates the woman with a passion, and loves it when Chiyo uses her master thief skills to fuck up the lady's life. "You leave in less than four hours."
FOUR HOURS? How the HELL am I supposed to get out of here by then? What, do you think I can just hop on the magical unicorn to Narnia and FLY THERE? "…How?"
Roku gets that legendary mischievous smirk as he says, "Laundry, m' lady. Laundry. Before the day is over, you'll be known as Annirella: The Escaped Convict!" He extends his arms like he's Superman. "Dum-du-du-duuuuuuum!"
