Jean: Another story comes in the way! (Smiles brightly)
Hurky: What story are you bringing?
Jean: I read one of my favorite authoress's stories, before it was taken away. I'm going to put it back, with my own story line. Similar to Cinderella, but this is based on modern time, which means now.
Sora: Oh, I watched that movie. That was one HOT movie!
Riku: Even though I don't go to the cinema often, I rent a video from a friend and I watched it. This is one show that inspires me.
Jean: Enough talking. Let's get on to the story, and let me tell you that the story's a little different from the original. The disclaimer please!
Disclaimer: Jean does not own the movie A Cinderella Story, and the characters that appeared on the story. Jean owns her original characters.
Kairi's P.O.V
Once upon a time...lived a beautiful girl……
And her wonderful but widowed father.
Okay, it's not really very, very long, long ago. And it's not a very far away kingdom.
It was at Destiny Islands, and looked so far and near.
You can only see the tropical trees and plants. Everything so green and clean.
But to myself, Kairi Foultly, about growing up in this paradise…..
The islands are my castles.
I was my father's best friend, daughter and kin.
And my father was mine best friend and father in the whole world.
Being raised by a father,
Working in the kitchen as a chef.
But never was I missed out in anything.
I'm the luckiest girl in the world wide world.
My dad owns a restaurant,
And I always hang out there, with my friends in school.
Diet was my favorite 4-letter word in this place…..
And when grease came, with no additional charges.
At Lionel's, I felt everyone working there was a family member of mine.
And before I forget anything, the drinks are the best. Soda, milk shake, juice with only natural substances in it.
"Happy Birthday, little princess sweetie!" said a lady named Riona. She had the darkest black hair I've ever seen. She wore an apron and the uniform that represents that she was one of the cashiers in the store. Her name tag was pinned on her top right hand corner of her apron.
"Make a wish, Kairi!" said Squall, who was the top chef in the restaurant.
"What do I have to wish for? I had my coolest father and so many friends." Thought myself. My friends, Riku, Luna, Selphie, Tidus, Wakka, Hurky, Jean, Alexa, Ryo and Meg (he's a man, to remind you guys out there) went for my birthday party.
But I guess my father thought I needed one more thing and that is: Penny Drake. I saw my father going back to the cash register to get some cash out and buy some more bottle ketchups, and as he went out, he bumped into Penny.
"I am SO very, very sorry." Penny apologized. She had brown hair, wore glasses and she looked like a nerd.
"You looked….. charming, Penny." My father said, and he kept staring at her.
"Hey, hurry up and buy some ketchup. Later we needed those for the party!" shouted Yuffie, another waitress working in the restaurant.
"Got it, Yuffie. I'll be back soon, kids." He said, and left for the department store.
And along with her are Namine and Lulu, Penny's evil daughter. Namine is younger than Lulu by a year. While Namine likes to wear white all the time, Lulu wear black and other gloomy colors.
And corrections: My out-of-the-way stepsisters.
But, as long as dad is happy, I'm happy too.
We are going to be a new, big happy family.
Bloopers!
One is enough.
The bad news is: This is no other fairy tale. This is a nightmare, for me!
One day, while I was doing my homework at the restaurant, I take my eyes a break, and saw dad kissing Penny's hand. My eyeballs almost popped out, and the only word that describes me while looking at the both of them: shocked!
Then, another time he swooped her to the horse, and went galloping away.
"……. so the princess and the handsome prince rode off the castle and lived happily, ever, after…." My father finished telling the story, and closed the book.
"Daddy, do fairy tales comes true?" I asked when I was 8 at night in bed.
"Well, maybe. But dreams do come true, if you believe in it." He said.
"Do you have a dream, daddy?" I asked again.
"Yup." He answered. "And it is to see you grow up going to university. And then maybe someday when you get married, you can live and build a castle."
"Do princesses go to university?" I asked.
"Well, they do, they went to a far, far and a far away place, maybe as far as Balamb Garden University." My father answered my questions, and the next moment his tone changed to a more serious tone. "You know, fairy tales aren't always looking for princes and lived happily ever after, the true meaning of it, is to fulfilling your dreams….."
"…..to stand up what you believe in…."
"…..and remember what I always say, never let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game." We both said together.
"Yeah, as in like the girls' team soccer?" I asked.
"And remember: if you think carefully, this book contains very important things……that you need to go later in life, as you grow older, and I got to go now, I have to go back to the restaurant to see how things are going." Said dad, and left for the restaurant.
He put the car keys and started driving, and while he was driving, there is another car speeding, and was chased by the police. The car the police was chasing sped too much, and suddenly crashed into my father's car. The car just topple over upside-down, and on the road only left a police car and my father, his head was covered with blood.
Only the next day I realized my father was dead on the way to the restaurant, and I cried.
Back at home was worse. And from that day onwards, the only fairy tales in my life…..
….was the ones in the books.
Since dad didn't write a will, everything belongs to my father, belongs to Penny. If dad had written a will, none of this would have happen.
I lost everything; my friends, except for Luna and Riku, the restaurant; everything that belongs to my father. My room was taken by Namine, and I have to live in the attic, and it was filthy and dusty. When I went up, I heard Namine and Lulu said something bad behind my back.
"That Kairi, she deserves that." Said Namine.
"Yeah, and we have everything that belongs to her unfaithful father. Thanks to mum, we can stay in this house until the day we are married." Said Lulu.
Hearing this behind my back, I almost cried, and I clenched my fist. This was so unfair. But I put everything down, as time goes by.
TBC………..
Jean: Well, that's it.
Hurky: Yeah! And hope I'm in too.
Jean: But we play minor parts, plus Ryo and Alexa.
Sora: When am I coming out?
Jean: Don't worry. You're my main actor, and Kairi's boyfriend, not some of you out there writing all those yaoi stuff and it's not in! Totally out! And the next chapter, Love at first sight! See you then!