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Ally's POV
I ran until I couldn't run anymore, I had lost my right shoe somewhere close to the ball and my feet were sore. I got to my house and realized my shoe was still a glass slipper. I hid it in my room and then checked my stepsiblings' rooms to find them completely clean. I went to the kitchen and swept to make it look like I had been cleaning and I used my dirty rag from the fireplaces earlier to rub soot and dirt all over me. Minutes later my family arrived home.
"Cinderally, come here!" my stepmother called. I entered the living room and she took in the sight of me. "The ball was a hit and we were so getting checked out by the Prince!" Tilly giggled. I sighed "The chores are done, what is it?" "I see that and I want you to take our belongings and put them up we're bushed." she raised an eyebrow at me. I grabbed their masks and jackets and put them in the entryway closet. "Did you dance with the Prince?" I asked. "Oh yes, five times." Milly beamed. "Me too, until some masked princess came along." Tilly's smile turned to a grimace. "I suppose she danced with the prince. It sounds like he was preoccupied by her." I looked at my stepsisters who grimaced. "Yeah, he wouldn't even let this other guy dance with her and she stomped on the poor guy's foot, some princess she is." Milly growled. "I don't think she was a princess, a princess would act much better, anyways he'll choose one of your sisters for sure. He seemed to like them better anyways." my stepmother walked off "Girls, bedtime we need to be up early enough for our spa hour and back in time for your special day."
I felt pleased that my sisters were upset over me even if they didn't know it. I knew I should have told Austin it was me looking back, but I was afraid after finding out that he was the prince. I had said things to him that weren't too pleasant about his life style. I was surprised and unsure why he was searching, hoping I was there last night. Every time I had a chance to admit who I was I choke, but it didn't matter. He had met plenty of girls; he'd surely choose someone else. I slowly walked up to my room dismissing my feelings I had formed for Austin, deciding to start anew finding someone else.
Austin's POV (The Next Day)
I searched with Dez all over town as girls tried to squeeze their feet into this slipper of glass. Girls whose feet were too small, big, or fat, but never the right size. I still hadn't found Ally, she wasn't at Sonic Boom and I hadn't seen her around town at all. This house was my last hope. I knocked on the door while Dez held the shoe. A woman opened the door surprised "Yes, Prince?" She let us in. "We're searching for a girl. This is her slipper do you have any daughters here?" I sighed. "Yes, Milly, Tilly, the Prince is here to see you!" There was a racket upstairs and then two girls I recognized hurried down the stairs.
Ally's sisters stared at me and then looked at each other. "What brings you here, your highness?" the girl, Tilly I later realized answered. "I'm looking for the owner to this shoe." I pointed to Dez who was spinning it on his finger. "Oh that's mine!" Milly grinned stealing it and quickly trying to shove it on her foot. Dez gagged at the stench of her foot as he took the shoe away seeing as half her foot stuck out of the shoe. Tilly rolled her eyes "Anyone could see the shoe is mine." Tilly grabbed the shoe before Dez could recover from Milly and slipped it on her foot. "See it's mine!" Tilly smiled her mother was excited and I glared "Impossible!" Then when Dez knelt down and removed her hand her foot was too small. I sighed "Where is your sister?" "Our sister, we don't know who you're talking about." Milly glared. Their mother sighed "I met you at the mall the other day, my other daughter is usually there, but this morning I punished her for snapping at me. She's locked in her room, I won't deny it, but if you must know. She wasn't at the ball last night. She was home doing chores.
"Take me to her, now." I said calmly and she led us upstairs to a door with cracked paint. She unlocked the door and I stepped in the room. Ally wasn't there, but there was a note sitting on her pillow. Her stepmother stared wide eyed at the empty room. "She was locked in here, I made sure of that. She must have climbed down the drain pipe, but she's not that capable." her stepmother gasped. "Nothing is impossible." I smiled reading the letter which made me frown "She's at the airport she's leaving here, to get away from you guys." I glared at the three people huddled behind Dez. "I'm sorry, but discipline is how to get through to your kid and raise them well. I care about Ally, I just want her to use her full potential and make something of herself. Chores and punishment create character." Ally's stepmother defended herself. I pushed past her "If you cared you wouldn't have been so rotten toward her. Your caring is twisted."
Dez followed me "Dude, what if we don't catch her!" "Dez, we have to and if I know Ally, well enough from the past week she'll be there still. She isn't one to give in and runaway so easily. She stayed there this long with her family, why leave now?" I got in my car; I refused to rely on a limo today. Dez slid in just as I peeled away from the curb and he pulled the door completely shut shouting "Are you nuts? My ham, gingerbread family, and I would be injured!" he pointed to the bag on his back. I sighed "Sorry buddy, I just have to catch her! She can't leave me without an explanation!" Dez looked at me "Leaving you? Man do you have it bad! I thought you were joking, but you're chummier with that girl than me and my gingerbread wife." I looked at him "It made since up until the gingerbread wife." Dez rolled his eyes "Forget it, I met this girl at the ball and made a gingerbread wife that looks like her." He pulled out a turkey leg and nibbled on it. I didn't even want to know what he had in his backpack; I just decided to focus on finding Ally. I had to find out why she was leaving and if it was her last night. I sped up faster.
I decided to add a twist and now it's a race against time to get to Ally! I hope everyone is enjoying it so far and don't forget to review.