Stephanie
Stephanie was six years old! She was officially six years old and it was her birthday!
Except her father was being mean (she didn't do anything! He just started to hit her and called her really bad names) and her mother yelled at her. (And her eyes didn't look right. It was like she wasn't looking at Stephanie. Somehow they looked foggy and Stephanie thinks her mother made more red constellations on her arms.) It was really loud, and there wasn't any cake. Not even waffles. Stephanie thinks that maybe her parents forgot. But that's okay, because she saved enough money for a candy bar!
So she left her home and started to walk… and walk… and walk…
Until she got lost.
Tall buildings towered over her, and all the grown ups didn't pay any attention to her. The sun was setting. She didn't have anything to eat.
She was all alone… and she grew scared.
As she cried for help, some mean kids were mean and promised to help her but lied and hurt her and took all of her money. So she cried and cried and cried and her dress that she liked was dirty and ripped. She really tried to find something nice to help her but she couldn't find anything.
But then something magical happened! A knight in dark armor appeared! He looked kinda like how Batman does with the long ears but he was wearing knight armor! And a long black cape! With a red bat on his chest!
Well, actually it was more like she heard a sound of a bat, followed it, and it lead her to the knight!
"Are you lost?" He had asked her. His voice was deep and sounded like her father's when he was drinking from the brown glass bottles, but there wasn't any gross breath and it didn't sound like he was tripping on his words!
The knight knelt down before her and was very kind to her. He made her hurts feel better, brushed her hair, and bought her presents when she told him that it was birthday! He even got her her favorite flavored cake! He was a real gentleman.
But like Cinderella, when the clocktower started to ring, her knight faded away. But even if he became shorter, and sounded younger, he was still her knight! (He even called her a princess.)
And as she got to meet all of the other knights in training, as they had to be since they were following her knight (including the baby), she began to feel something. Stephanie didn't know what that feeling was, but she thinks she didn't want to leave them. Surely her father and mother would be worried for her. (Even if they would never go searching for her.)
But then something even more magical happened! They promised to play with her! And visit her! And take her to the park and go out to nice places to eat!
She was so happy she cried! It was really a fairy tale coming true!
But in every fairy tale someone was cursed. Stephanie doesn't think she was cursed, but maybe it was her knight. After all, his armor faded away like sparkles and dust. Maybe he only really comes out when the armor appears.
She doesn't know, but maybe true love's kiss would fix it! All Stephanie has to do is find his true love and they would all get their happily ever after!