This Is My Cinderella Story
Chapter 2: People Like Spike Spiegal
Disclaimer: I do not own anything so please do not sue.
----------Last Time----------
Fiona moved all my stuff up in the attic when she heard Julia wanted to stay in my room. Ed was with me when I found one of my father's most treasured book in a box upstairs. I kept it under my bed where it laid right now untouched. The only people I have close to me now are Shin, Annie, Ed, and the people in the diner.
----------Now----------
8 Years Later
"Faye!"
I wake up to the sound of my stepmother's voice coming from the intercom.7: 15 am my alarm clock read. I look around to realize that I have falling asleep at my desk again.
"Faye, bring me my breakfast!" I groan. Why can't she leave me alone? God gave her the ability to walk. I think she could get her own breakfast but alas I must do it. I change into a pair of tight blue jeans and a black t-shirt. I rush downstairs to make Fiona and Julia their breakfast and take it out into the backyard. I see them chatting as they sat under the umbrella table.
"Here you go." I said as I place both their plates in front of them. Their breakfast was nothing but a French bagel with two eggs on the side.
"Is this a no carb bagel?" Fiona asked while I stood next to her. I simply shrugged and said,
"Only the best." and with that she ate the bagel and gave an approval moan. She was still plumped but not as much now than when she met my dad. She used most of his money to get lots of face-lifts and implants. Not to mention that she bought Julia and herself a new Volkswagen Beetle while I drive an old mustang. Not that I'm complaining since it was my dad's car and still runs great.
"Why are you just standing there? Get to work!" I was soon knocked out of my thoughts and suddenly remembered what I had to tell Fiona.
"Fiona, I can't go to work today. I have a major test today that I have been studying for all night." I said. I really hoped she wouldn't let me work today. I really wanted to get accepted into Princeton since it will get me far away from Fiona and Julia but that's not the only reason I'm going though. I want to be big time writer and tell people about my story.
The bad part is that Fiona handles my college tuition and if I don't do what she orders me to than I could kiss Princeton goodbye.
"Faye, people go to school to get smart and find a job." Oh boy I knew where this was heading. Work, here I come. "You already have a job, so it's like a skipping a step."
"But Fiona-"
"No buts, the diner can't possibly get by with out you. Now get to work!" I gave her one last look and with that I ran inside to get my things.
"I swear Faye is so inconsiderate. After all we do for her." I hear Julia remark as I made it inside. I ignored her and went to the living where I found Ed on the floor, playing with her laptop.
"Hey Ed, whatcha doing?" I crouch next to Ed seeing her playing some weird game on her computer. Looked like chess to me but her screen was covered with her weird smiley faces. She's a big computer geek. The house could be burning down and she would not budge if she were on the computer.
"Ed is making a cool game that everybody can play." I forgot to mention that Ed likes to speak in third person. Don't ask she just does, it's a habit that she can't control. Fiona always gets angry when she hears Ed talk like that. She says that's not how a lady should talk but I say whatever floats your boat. I do find it kind a weird how Ed acts sometimes.
"Where's Ein?" I ask as I look around for the Welsh corgi. Ein is Ed's pet, she found him in the streets one day and begged Fiona to keep him. I'm surprised to see she even agreed to keep the dog. I know Fiona can't stand Ein because she's always yelling at him when he's around or smacking him with the newspaper.
Ed shrugged meaning she didn't know and care at the moment. I start to feel my legs getting numb. So I get up to get my backpack from the table and head out the door. I hear Ed following but I don't mind. It's like an everyday routine. Ed would always walk with me to my car to say goodbye. I threw my backpack in the backseat and get in the car.
"Alright, I'm going to work. So I want you to get ready for school." I look at her from the driver's seat.
"Ok Faye-Faye. Have a good day. Love you bye." Ed gives me a hug, which I happily return. Then I pull out the drive way and drive towards the diner.
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8:45 am and I'm still cleaning tables. School doesn't start until 9:15. I walk to another dirty table and start putting plates into my tray. Fiona changed the whole diner.
When my dad owned it, the diner was a place where everybody knew your name. It was known for its music which was mostly jazz. Now that Fiona owned it she destroyed it. She made the diner look like it came out of the 50's. Everybody had new uniforms, which sucks because my dad would let us wear anything we wanted as long as it was appropriate, and she changed the diner's name to Fiona.
There is one thing I know though. All the same great people I know still work here especially Annie. She's the type who isn't afraid to let her voice be heard. Sometimes I wonder what she's doing working for someone like Fiona. I look up to see her talking with a few people who are eating their breakfast. I guessed she figured someone was watching her because her brown eyes met mines and I immediately turn back to cleaning the table.
"Excuse me." I hear her say as she makes her way towards me. Shit! She told me fifteen minutes ago to leave for school but I didn't listen because I had to follow Fiona's orders first. I'm gonna hear it now.
"Faye, what are you still doing hear? I thought I told you to go to school."
"I can't Fiona told me to work today and I'm not going until I'm done." I feel my tray being snatched from me and look to see that Annie has it between her arms.
"Don't you worry about Fiona's blubber butt, I'll deal with her later but you have to get to school. Your father would want you to get an education not spend your time here working." I look at her and smile. I love how she cared for my well being. I almost thought that nobody cared anymore after my father died in the shuttle accident but I was wrong.
"Thanks Annie."
"Don't thank me just go now." I threw my apron into the tray that Annie was holding and ran to my car. I still had to pick up Shin. So I drove to his house to see his dad working on his Mercedes.
"How's it gong Mr. Johnson?" I yell.
"Better than ever." As if on cue, Shin came walking out. He was wearing blue jeans with a white Nike t-shirt.
"See what I have to drive in every morning dad? No offense Faye." I shake my head meaning none taken. Shin always wanted to drive his dad Mercedes. "You can not tell you don't feel sorry for me."
"Not as sorry as the three cars you totaled." Mr. Johnson responded which caused Shin groaned as he sat in the front seat.
"You ready?" I asked and he gave a slight nod. With that I started the engine and drove off to school.
I finally make it to school but now I can't find any parking. That's what you get when you decide to come late.
"There's one right there." Shin pointed to an empty parking space close to the football field. I slowly start to head towards it but Julia suddenly cut me off. The stunt caused me to slam on my brakes before I could smash into her car. I watched her with a slight glare as she gets out the car.
"You snooze you lose Faye. Too bad you couldn't get here quicker." Julia said as she flicked her blonde curly hair back and talked with her friends or should I say her groupies.
"Julia wants me." I hear Shin unexpectedly say.
"What are you talking about? You haven't said one word to Julia. I should know since I live with her." As I say this as I try to look for a spot to park before the bell rung.
"Oh but she has talked to me. In my dreams she talked to me and she wants me." This caused me to stop searching and look Shin straight in the eyes.
"Shin you can do so much better than Julia, believe me. Oh there's one right there." I look to my right to see another empty spot, so I back out and try heading towards that one.
"Argh, what is this asshole day?" I was yet again cut off but by another car. It was a black Escalade. I could hear laughing in the car as they steal my parking spot. I see a guy come out from the driver's seat. He had unruly green hair and brown eyes. I knew exactly who he was. Spike Spiegal, star quarterback and most popular guy at Bebop high.
"Oh Spike!" I hear Julia yell as she runs towards Spike. Shin watched as she latched her arms around Spike. I watch Spike with fascination but quickly shake it off when I see Julia lips on his.
"I swear people like Spike Spiegal and Julia belong together." I say watching the scene before me. Shin just shook his head as I pulled out again. I finally found a spot and we head to class.
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RRRIIINNNGGThe sound of the bell rings as all students leave fifth period. I leave class and soon meet up with Shin as we head to our sixth period.
"So how was the test in Mr. Moore's class?" Shin asked. We both pushed our way through people.
"Fairly easy. I don't even know why I was worrying so much about it." We turned around to the next hall and I suddenly felt myself knock into to something I mean someone.
"I'm sorry I didn't see you."
"It alright." I look to up see that it's Roco Bonnaro. He's one those guys whose obsessed with science. He always wins first place in the science fair. He had a weird hairstyle, brown spiky hair that stood up, and brown eyes. Not the kind of cute that most stuck-up girls would swoon for but he was good enough to be a mature boyfriend…or so I thought.
"What do got there, Roco?" Shin asked. Roco was carrying some sort of weird contraption. Headphones cover his ears, and he held what looked liked a remote with an antenna sticking out in his right hand.
"It's a transmitter that allows me to send messages to Mars. I think I'm getting a signal!" He moved his remote thing-a-ma-bobber around until some weird signal sounded and he bolted down the hall.
"I really think he's missing a few screws in that noggin of his." Shin said as we continued to walk down the hall.
"At least he's happy. I think its better living in a dream than in harsh reality." I debated. I soon felt a vibration coming from my back pocket. I knew Shin heard it too when he looked at me. I took my cell phone from my pocket and saw that I had a new text message.
"Let me guess, your secret admirer?" I looked at Shin with a smirk as I held my phone close to me. "You met the guy in a chat room and already you're head over heals."
"I really like this guy." I said in my defense. His screen name is Gorgio2071 and I met him in a Princeton chat room. I was talking about sonnets from people like Shakespeare and he just suddenly sent me an IM then we just talked for hours. My screen name was Romani86, just incase you were wondering.
"Look I'll talk to you later Shin." With that I walked out into the courtyard. I sat near the water fountain in the middle of the courtyard as I flipped open my phone and connected to the web.
Gorgio2071: What's up?
Romani86: Nothing much and you?
Gorgio2071: Nothing. Just thinking how many cigarettes Mr. Moore can have before it kills him.
I look up to see Mr. Moore with a cigarette between his lips with and ashtray next to him that had like about 20 cigarette butts. I'm not a big fan of smoking but who knows if I try it or not. I just realize that he must be near if he could see my American government teacher smoking. That's another thing, we go to the same school. Funny, how we can't take the time to find each other. I start to look for any one that has a phone but it was harder than I thought. Almost everyone at Bebop high owns a cell phone.
Romani86: LOL.
Gorgio2071: I wish I could hear you laugh.
I smile at the message as if I was facing him right now. I hear the warning bell to sixth period ring.
Romani86: I have to go. Talk to you later.
And with that I disconnected and headed for my last period of the day. I never did notice the guy with green hair sitting across from the water fountain disconnecting from the web as well.
A/N: Wow, that sucked but whatever, it might not to you. If it does suck don't worry the next one should be better. Now let me point out that I don't remember A Cinderella Story word for word besides I said it was somewhat base on it. So if I write something that wasn't in the movie don't worry about it. It just means I can't remember that part so I added something different, now time for reviews. I GOT 5 YAY!!
Animefreak03- Wow my first reviewer. Thanks for reviewing and I'm sorry about your grandmother. I hope you feel better and remember that your grandmother is in a better place now. I also hope you update My Perfect Match soon!
DivineAngel143- yeah I bet a lot of people seen that movie. Well I was watching it and it made me think of Spike and Faye so I had to write it. Well I'm glad you're interested. Fiona and Julia are not my favorite characters either.
kaimi yu ki-I'm glad you think so. Like I said I was watching the movie not to long ago and it made me think of Spike and Faye but I bet you can't wonder whom the rest of the cast are.
lydrel- Actually I didn't use that song from Simple Plan. I just wrote that first sentence because I didn't know how to start and yes it's a SxF fic. One thing is when I write a CB fic I never pair Spike with anybody but Faye.
Gip-Rik- I love Cb. I think it's a great show and I'm glad that mine's was your first pic. Thanks!
Well that's everybody and don't forget to review!