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Chapter 2: Cindy

Cinderella had been having the most relaxing day of her life, which is saying something since princesses don't do much. Prince was away on business and she had the entire castle to herself. She had complete and utter freedom to do what she wished (which she had anyway), and was feeling liberated.

Within the first half-hour she had done everything on her list and was wandering about, searching for something new to do. She'd already had her delightful chorus of happy working songs with the woodland animals and had already polished her crown and throne, and had sewn new curtains out of leaves and springtime flowers. There wasn't much left to do, since Prince insisted on employing servants who took care of everything else.

She decided to take a walk around the grounds. She carefully selected her wandering-the-grounds outfit, which she'd had made especially for such an occasion, and left the confines of the castle. Outside the weather was perfect, as always, and all of nature smiled kindly on the beautiful princess. She sang a song as she walked, one that told an eloquent narrative about her life and inner feelings, although obviously the only one paying any attention was Cindy herself.

A friendly woodland jaguar approached her, bearing his sharp teeth. Princess Cindy wasn't afraid, however, because she was too naïve to know that jaguars are dangerous animals. Instead she petted it gently and sang it a little song about it having something stuck in its teeth, which it did, and lo and behold it dropped a letter in her lap and disappeared.

Glad that the matter of a lack of tooth floss had been resolved so quickly, Cindy proceeded to exclaim to no one in particular, "Look, I got a letter!"

A friendly woodland squirrel came up to her and exclaimed in an irritatingly high-pitched and incomprehensible voice, "Who's it from?"

"I don't know," Cindy said gently, although it was obvious that the letter was from the jaguar with whom she had just narrowly avoided a gruesome death. "Maybe I should open it!"

The squirrel looked a little worried, so Cindy turned to her singing mice-friends and asked them what she should do with the letter. They were evenly divided on the subject, and Cindy exclaimed in frustration, "Well, what do I do?"

"It seems to me," said a friendly woodland gorilla (who also had very sharp teeth), "that we won't know who it's from until we open it."

"Well, we won't have to all open it. I'll do it and that will be easier," Cindy said.

All the animals agreed that this was a good plan and Cindy opened the letter. "What does it say," asked the mice in their equally irritatingly high-pitched and incomprehensible voices.

"It's from my servant, Angie," said Cindy, although Angie is not a servant-girl type name. "She says that Prince is hanging around the market in the dull provincial town next to ours. Angie thinks I should come see what he's doing there." Cindy gave a little laugh, as if the notion of her husband doing anything but shopping were ridiculous. "I don't have to go see, I know he's shopping," she exclaimed. "I know," she cried to her woodland friends, "maybe we should go pay him a surprise visit!"

All of the woodland friends nodded in agreement, so Cindy went back inside and found her going-to-the-dull-provincial-town-next-door-to-visit-my-husband-who-is-obviouly-at-the-market-because-he-needs-to-shop outfit. She then took a fine white princess-horse and rode to the dull provincial town next to theirs.

She quickly found a young servant girl whose importance in this story seems nonexistent but is secretly a key character in the tale to take care of her horse, of course, for free. Cindy then proceeded to do a little of her own shopping as she looked for Prince. She caught a few glances of the princess of this town with her nose buried in a book. She was very pretty, but far too bookish for a princess, Cindy thought.

Suddenly there was a sound beside her and Cindy turned to see a strange sight. That bookish princess was in the arms of a very handsome man and was kissing and hugging him all over. At first Cindy was happy for them, but then she realized that the man looked exactly like Prince Charming.

I didn't know he had a twin, she thought. And then she thought, He doesn't have a twin. This thought was quite a shock to her system. If the man that this princess was smooching was Prince Charming, then that meant she was married to Prince Charming. But Cindy was married to Prince Charming!

For a few moments all Cindy could do was stare, stupefied. She couldn't figure out why her husband was smooching with this girl. Poor Cindy was in shock. She didn't even know the meaning of the word "Affair", how could she consider that that was what was happening?

Cindy thought this through. Her husband was kissing someone in the town square that was not Cindy. Therefore, this woman had to be a witch, and this witch was trying to put an evil spell on Prince Charming. Yes, that was it! Cindy's blood began to boil. How dare this witch go after her Prince!

Suddenly, said prince looked over and saw Cindy, and for a moment, she could've sworn there was fear in his eyes. Then he dropped the other princess, and, with one last, looooong kiss, grabbed his horse and fled.

Cindy had eyes only for the girl sitting in the dirt. She glared, took a deep breath to muster her courage, and went to confront the witch.