*******Ella*******
I opened my magic book. I needed a story tonight. Unfortunately the page I opened to was a journal entry. I recognized the misspellings of Hatties pen. This should be amusing.
Char wuz delitefull tonite. I am afrade he spoke with Olive more than with me but he wuz in a good mood. I think he is falling in luv with me. He shud be proposing any day now. Ella wuz crying wen she came back after supper. I snuck into the kitchen and saw her. The lemon tart I snuck was delishus.
Today wen I wuz buying a new dress Lord Vladimere stopped me in the street. He offered to buy me sumthing frum the bakery. I agrede, reluctantly. I ate five donuts and three creme filled pastrees. They wer delishus. Lord Vladimere talked a lot. He kept staring at me. He invited Mum, Olive and I over for supper in to nites. Mum says it wud be rude not to go.
That did cheer me up. Lord Vladimere was rich, young and handsome but he was a spoiled man. He got whatever he wanted. If he was in love with Hattie he would do anything to marry her. They deserved each other. If Char marries Mum Olga will jump at the chance for Hattie to marry him. I chuckled.
I turned the page and saw and illustration of a girl petting a beautiful kitten. It was a story about a princess whose father always went away on quests and came back with ridiculous items and a boy who did everything to impress his two brothers but nothing worked. The boy rescued three horses from a magicians spell and then used them to get to the princess who sat atop a glass hill with her cat. They fell in love and married and the boy never went on quests because he was too busy inventing things. It was a sweet story.
The next page was a journal entry of Chars. It was just after he returned home from dinner it looked like.
I do not understand what is going on. I went to dinner at Hatties home. It was awful. She said terrible things about Lela. At one point I could hardly control my curiosity. I asked how Ella was doing. Madame Olga and Hattie just stared at me. Finally Madame Olga replied, "She's doing well. She's very happy here." What did she mean 'here'? Then when I was leaving I saw her in a tree staring at me. She tried to hide but I saw her. What was she doing there? These questions spin through my head. I am now going to ask Lela for that will take my mind off of everything.
Ask her what? I wondered. I turned the page again. There was a girl who looked a lot like me standing shocked. Kneeling in front of her was a regal man holding out a diamond ring. My stomach did a back flip when I realized Char was going to marry Lela. My dear sweet Char was going to marry someone else. I cried myself to sleep.
I opened my magic book. I needed a story tonight. Unfortunately the page I opened to was a journal entry. I recognized the misspellings of Hatties pen. This should be amusing.
Char wuz delitefull tonite. I am afrade he spoke with Olive more than with me but he wuz in a good mood. I think he is falling in luv with me. He shud be proposing any day now. Ella wuz crying wen she came back after supper. I snuck into the kitchen and saw her. The lemon tart I snuck was delishus.
Today wen I wuz buying a new dress Lord Vladimere stopped me in the street. He offered to buy me sumthing frum the bakery. I agrede, reluctantly. I ate five donuts and three creme filled pastrees. They wer delishus. Lord Vladimere talked a lot. He kept staring at me. He invited Mum, Olive and I over for supper in to nites. Mum says it wud be rude not to go.
That did cheer me up. Lord Vladimere was rich, young and handsome but he was a spoiled man. He got whatever he wanted. If he was in love with Hattie he would do anything to marry her. They deserved each other. If Char marries Mum Olga will jump at the chance for Hattie to marry him. I chuckled.
I turned the page and saw and illustration of a girl petting a beautiful kitten. It was a story about a princess whose father always went away on quests and came back with ridiculous items and a boy who did everything to impress his two brothers but nothing worked. The boy rescued three horses from a magicians spell and then used them to get to the princess who sat atop a glass hill with her cat. They fell in love and married and the boy never went on quests because he was too busy inventing things. It was a sweet story.
The next page was a journal entry of Chars. It was just after he returned home from dinner it looked like.
I do not understand what is going on. I went to dinner at Hatties home. It was awful. She said terrible things about Lela. At one point I could hardly control my curiosity. I asked how Ella was doing. Madame Olga and Hattie just stared at me. Finally Madame Olga replied, "She's doing well. She's very happy here." What did she mean 'here'? Then when I was leaving I saw her in a tree staring at me. She tried to hide but I saw her. What was she doing there? These questions spin through my head. I am now going to ask Lela for that will take my mind off of everything.
Ask her what? I wondered. I turned the page again. There was a girl who looked a lot like me standing shocked. Kneeling in front of her was a regal man holding out a diamond ring. My stomach did a back flip when I realized Char was going to marry Lela. My dear sweet Char was going to marry someone else. I cried myself to sleep.