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Shaina
Ella ran her hand threw her dark brown hair. She sifted her fingers along every strand. She absentmindedly twirled it around her finger listening to Mira's mother, Kalli, talk about what she was going to do today.
She was enjoying her new life. She didn't have to wake up early, she was given three meals a day, and she had a warm bed at night. She got used to the bustle of the Inn and being a waitress. Within the first week she had gotten used to the routine of her work. She started to learn the names of the regulars in the bar the second week, and by the third she felt like she had been there forever. Now it had been almost a year, she had turned 14 some where in the middle, and she felt like family. She would stay up late talking to Mira about her past. Everything that she had done with her stepmother and stepsisters felt like a storytale. She could repeat the days over and over again and she could feel and see the memories and the scars fade. She began to forget about everything in her past, even peter. She still wore the necklace, but now it was a trinket, worthless. The stone had stopped glowing, and the chain had rusted. She listened to Mira's mother talk about the day, fumbling with the wrinkles in her dress.
"Now, today Ella, yu and Mira have a half day. Tis afternoon yu two can go to market. Bie yorself a pretty dress with the wages that we've been givin ya." Kalli said in her motherly voice. Ella's heart leapt with joy. She had been saving and she finely had enough money for the dress she had seen at the dressmaker's shop. She drifted off in to thought thinking about the dress. It was like a ball gown, fit for a ball, and something in side her said that she needed that dress.
She came out of her thoughts to hear Kalli tell her to go off and waitress in the bar. She would have liked to be upstairs chatting with Mira as the two of them folded sheets and made beds. But it was ok to be in the bar in the morning, all the people were quiet with hangovers from drinking too much, or silently counting how much money they had lost before.
She quickly tied on her apron. The cotton cloth was simple with light blue stripes down the sides. It flowed down to the bottom of her dress, with a pattern of lace on the edges.
She liked the bar in the mornings. It was quiet and calm, with a few overnight customers drinking their morning coffee. She would have some time to mend her dress before she and Mira would go to market. She kept her mind on the dress that she was going to buy.
She walked out in to the bar and took the orders of the three men that were there. She walked in to the kitchen to get them their drinks. She got them and walked back out. After she had made everyone happy, she sat down and mended her dress. Before she knew it, her shift was over, and Kalli came out with her wages.
"Be good wit this. Spend it wizly" Kalli said like she always did.
Ella laughed. "I will." She bounded up the stairs to grab Mira. After another few minutes of putting on their shawls, they both ran down the stairs together, and escaped threw the front door before Mira's parents could change their minds.
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Luv,
Shaina
Ella ran her hand threw her dark brown hair. She sifted her fingers along every strand. She absentmindedly twirled it around her finger listening to Mira's mother, Kalli, talk about what she was going to do today.
She was enjoying her new life. She didn't have to wake up early, she was given three meals a day, and she had a warm bed at night. She got used to the bustle of the Inn and being a waitress. Within the first week she had gotten used to the routine of her work. She started to learn the names of the regulars in the bar the second week, and by the third she felt like she had been there forever. Now it had been almost a year, she had turned 14 some where in the middle, and she felt like family. She would stay up late talking to Mira about her past. Everything that she had done with her stepmother and stepsisters felt like a storytale. She could repeat the days over and over again and she could feel and see the memories and the scars fade. She began to forget about everything in her past, even peter. She still wore the necklace, but now it was a trinket, worthless. The stone had stopped glowing, and the chain had rusted. She listened to Mira's mother talk about the day, fumbling with the wrinkles in her dress.
"Now, today Ella, yu and Mira have a half day. Tis afternoon yu two can go to market. Bie yorself a pretty dress with the wages that we've been givin ya." Kalli said in her motherly voice. Ella's heart leapt with joy. She had been saving and she finely had enough money for the dress she had seen at the dressmaker's shop. She drifted off in to thought thinking about the dress. It was like a ball gown, fit for a ball, and something in side her said that she needed that dress.
She came out of her thoughts to hear Kalli tell her to go off and waitress in the bar. She would have liked to be upstairs chatting with Mira as the two of them folded sheets and made beds. But it was ok to be in the bar in the morning, all the people were quiet with hangovers from drinking too much, or silently counting how much money they had lost before.
She quickly tied on her apron. The cotton cloth was simple with light blue stripes down the sides. It flowed down to the bottom of her dress, with a pattern of lace on the edges.
She liked the bar in the mornings. It was quiet and calm, with a few overnight customers drinking their morning coffee. She would have some time to mend her dress before she and Mira would go to market. She kept her mind on the dress that she was going to buy.
She walked out in to the bar and took the orders of the three men that were there. She walked in to the kitchen to get them their drinks. She got them and walked back out. After she had made everyone happy, she sat down and mended her dress. Before she knew it, her shift was over, and Kalli came out with her wages.
"Be good wit this. Spend it wizly" Kalli said like she always did.
Ella laughed. "I will." She bounded up the stairs to grab Mira. After another few minutes of putting on their shawls, they both ran down the stairs together, and escaped threw the front door before Mira's parents could change their minds.
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