A/N: Hello people! This is Lin and I am writing this from the comfort of my home. In Calgary. and because of all the reviews I got saying to update, I shall! Anyways, hope you like this story so far as much as I have enjoyed writing it!(Though it may not be too good) Anyways, here's chapter 5, 4, 6 ummm whatever chapter this is!
D/C: I do not own Ella enchanted, but if I did, that would be soo cool!
So this was my life, the princesses gave orders and I obeyed them without really obeying them. If I disobeyed them outright, they might tell Olga and Olive and that would not be good for my family. Mandy had told me my mother had played the same kind of game with her when she had been alive. It was hard to do and in some cases, I had to be very creative. It would get them all annoyed, and I would be punished, but it was much better then being a slave to these people.
The other servants thought it very funny how I played this game of obeying, yet not obeying. I knew that the princesses didn't mean bad, but they didn't really mean good either. So the days became weeks, and the weeks became months. It seemed to me that the king and queen would never return.
Then the thought struck me, how could I get the king of all Kyria to listen to me, I was a servant in his eyes. Even though the princesses were the daughters of me step-aunt, the king didn't know that, and I knew that Hattie wouldn't vouch for me. My body was there but my mind wandered, thinking of ways that I could set my plan into action. In my absent-mindedness, I spilt the milk I was pouring for the Princess Aly right down her front and onto her gown. I didn't notice until she shrieked in terror.
"What are you doing?" she exclaimed. She stood up, flustered and a little more then annoyed. I bit my lip, trying not to laugh. Princess Aly and her sisters fled to their rooms, muttering. When I felt sure that they were gone, I doubled over in laughter. The maids hanging laundry outside laughed as well, though it was more of a chuckle then a laugh. I wasn't punished for this act because princess Aly was much to embarrass to mention it to anyone.
The next week, the Princesses decided that I should accompany them on their daily walk. I supposed they thought that they were doing me a favor, but I needed that time to think of ideas. But, of course, I had to. They walked along the path, waving at everyone that crossed their path. The market was busy with people selling and buying. This place was gossip city, what one person heard, everyone heard.
I could hear people whispering about court affairs, market prices, and everyone else's private lives. "You know that the king's coming back the next day," A lady buying apples said. "Heard it myself, with my own two ears." I stopped dead in my tracks, if the king was coming back, that would be my chance to avenge mother and the rest of my family. Now I had to think faster then ever of a plan. "What are you doing?" the princesses had noticed that I had stopped. "We can't stop here, keep moving now." And I obliged.
The whole day, I was in good spirits, for I knew soon I would be free of servitude, as would my brothers and sisters. Freedom was so close that I could taste it and so I spent the rest of the day actually obeying the princesses. I was much too happy to let their constant orders bother me. Oh how good it would be to tell the King what had really happened to my mother. I was sure he would listen to me when I told him that Hattie had deceived him and that my mother had only deceived him to save him from herself.
But I would need to talk with him alone. If Hattie or even one of the princesses were there, then I would never be able to get my point through to him. They would tell him that I was lying and send me to my room or something. I would have to plan this carefully and precisely as well. So I spent the night in my room, trying to think of a way to get the King to listen to me.
I must have fallen asleep because when I woke up, it was already morning. Great, I still had no idea how to get the King to listen to me and now I was tired. I had no time to think that day because after breakfast, the princesses ordered me to help them dress in clothes suitable to show up in front of their mother, the horrid Hattie. I didn't care at all for I thought that a person in rags was fit to show up in front of Hattie, but the princesses had other plans. They chatted while me and another maid did their hair and chose dresses for them.
'You'll be free soon, just endure it.' I told myself. It was a good thing that I would be free soon, because I don't think that I could take much more of this.
A/N: Sorry it took so long to get this chapter posted, I had no clue what to write for a while and tons and tons of homework. - But now I can write, yay! Ok, I hope you liked the story a lot, and if you didn't, then that's too bad. Please address all comments to the author of this fanfiction, that's me! Ok, c ya later!