Sister or Slave?

Yawn… Ugh, this room is even worse than the attic! At least in the attic I had something called a bed; now all I have is the floor in front of the fireplace. Now I know what you're thinking, "Oh yay, a fireplace! That should keep her warm at night," WRONG. It's not even lighted when I go to sleep all there is is ashes, and when wind blows down the chimney, guess who gets covered in ashes? ME. So yeah, maybe telling the so called "stepmother" that I knew I was her daughter wasn't such a great idea…

"Cinderella! You dog, get over here! I can't put my dress on!"

"Coming, just give me a second," I rolled my eyes. Lady Fatso is calling me, she can't even walk for 30 minutes before getting tired!

Maddie started struggling with the buttons, "Ugh! This worthless village should start making a size 14! They should be more sensitive about beautiful ladies that are a bit larger boned."

Please, I think her bones are the perfect size, the problem is her stomach.

"Cinderella!! Put more strength into it! I need this to fit so I can go shopping for more brooches!" Maddie and I strained ourselves until finally, it fit.

"Okay, well if I'm done here "Madam" please excuse me," I walked to the garbage can to see if my sisters left me anything good enough to eat. Oohh.. I have quite a choice here don't I, yep.. I have let's see, half rotten salmon, or I know, I can eat dry chicken bones! Yum… I decided to eat a half eaten orange that didn't particularly taste right, but with my choices, that was the best there was.

"Slave, come here! I believe you forgot to do something," I heard stepmother yelling from the garden.

That's when I remembered, I forgot to get rid of all the caterpillars on the plants… I'm in so much troubled. I ran to stepmother and of course to avoid starvation and severe punishments, I knelt and pleaded for forgiveness, "Please mistress, I had so many other things to do! Such as feeding all you 24 pets, grooming the young madams, washing all the floor, washing the dishes, doing the laundry, I, I just can't do all this in 2 hours mistress," I hope my acting works.

Stepmother of course didn't fall for it, "Hmm, nice try you mutt, you'll be sleeping outside with stabled duty for 3 months, you understand? Oh and I almost forgot, 10 lashes," stepmother took out that horrid whip and hit me 10 times although; I thought it more as 50. I went to my sisters and they looked at me with the glare that told me, I was in for a bit of trouble.