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A Majority of the chapter is a revisit of the Disney's Cinderella movie.
Saturday Night (7 PM)
For the last two days Kitty stayed in the abandoned apartment with Kathy; eating sandwiches and drinking lots of water for breakfast, lunch and dinner. She had decided that now Phil had cooled down and thus be ready to return home.
The drive home her arms were in pain. Still kind of throbbing from her recent harm to herself on her arms. She was a pale and bloody red zebra, line after line one after another on her arms. Wrist to the top of the forearm on the underpart of the skin that's always so soft. Vertical and horizontal. She loathed them, every scar reminded her of the pain she had felt and wanted to rid of and the only way to do so was by sharp objects. Knives, old pieces of glass, a broken razor—anything at all!
At 7 Kitty home and saw that Phil was out of the house. Kitty took Kathy inside and brought the little girl upstairs. Once in her nightgown Kitty settled her sister into bed.
"Book." Kathy said, quietly.
"Alright." Kitty said. She got up and went over to her book stand and began looking for a book. After a few seconds she found her favorite fairy tale from when she was around Kathy's age. "My favorite." She took the book out and went back to the bed, settling herself next to Kathy.
"Once upon a time in a far away land lived a little girl named Cinderella. Cinderella's mother died soon after her birth so her father raised her as a single parent. Cinderella lived in a beautiful home with wild flowers and rainbows of all sorts. Cinderella was a compassionate soul with her father, her animal friends and her friends in the village. Her father, though, wanted Cinderella to have a mother in her life and so Cinderella's father married a wealthy woman with two daughters of her own, both the same age as Cinderella. This woman, her stepmother, had proper manners and had a high rank in the village. A few years later when Cinderella was nine, her father died. From that point forward her stepmother and her stepsisters became cruel.
"Cinderella became a servant to her stepmother and her stepsisters. Making breakfast, serving them their breakfast, feed the barn animals, clean the floors of the mansion size home, clean the windows, dust the windows, broom the floors, clean up the breakfast, make the beds, make lunch, serve lunch, clean up lunch, clean the bathrooms, make dinner, serve dinner, do the laundry, clean up dinner. She did everything for her stepmother and stepsisters for years. Cinderella's only friends were the mice, the blue birds, the horse and the dog that all lived in the barn.
"Years of being a servant to her stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella dreamed of marrying a prince and living a beautiful life. Once day a horse and carriage came up to their mansion. A letter with a gold stamp with the imprinted letters of RF was handed to Cinderella. Cinderella gave the letter to her mother. The local King was giving a royal ball for his son, the Prince. At the ball the Prince was to, hopefully, find a girl to marry and become his bride. All girls in the village were invited to the ball. Cinderella's stepsisters were overjoyed and excited to attend, eagerly running back to their rooms to find the perfect ballroom dresses. Cinderella's Stepmother told Cinderella, 'If you can finish your chores and find a pleasing dress in time, you may come along.' Cinderella was so excited she began to work hard to finish her chores.
"However her Stepsisters gave Cinderella silly chores, as to keep Cinderella from finding the time to make her ballgown dress. Cinderella was so sad. Cinderella's mice and bird friends loved Cinderella so much and wanted Cinderella to have a magical night; decided to make her a ballgown. A beautiful dress was made from various of pink threads and white threads and bows and blue necklaces and sashes around the house. By night time Cinderella had returned to her room, after informing her Stepmother that she would not attend the ball. Cinderella was presented with the dress and thanked her friends. She got dressed and made it downstairs, only to have her stepsisters rip it to threads.
"Cinderella ran away to the garden and cried at the fountain. Then a magically fairy came down to Cinderella. It was Cinderella's Fairy God Mother. The Fairy God Mother gave Cinderella a beautiful blue dress, glass slippers, a horse and carriage and everything else she deserved for her night. Until the twelfth stroke of midnight, when all of her magic would be gone. Cinderella thanked her and went to the ball. There she met the prince and together they danced until midnight stroked. Rapidly in love with each other, Cinderella and the prince almost kissed. Midnight struck. Cinderella ran away, being chased by the guards, and managed to hide in the bushes to avoid them by the time her blue gown died away. Though luckily she had one glass slipper to keep as a memory.
"The next day, the Prince sent two of his best men to find the girl he had fell in love and danced with. She had lost her glass slipper when running away. The girl was in this village. Every women was to put the slipper on and the one that fitted perfect, was his bride. Every woman tried the slipper, but it was either too big, too small, to narrow or to wide. At Cinderella's home the stepsisters tried them on, but failed. Cinderella, who had been locked in her room by her Stepmother, because the stepmother knew it was Cinderella at the ball, didn't want Cinderella to live a happy life. Cinderella came down the stairs asking to try the glass slipper on. The man who carried the slipper on the pillow ran to her, only to be tripped by the Stepmother. When all hope was lost, Cinderella still had the other shoe.
"It fitted perfectly, of course, and Cinderella was married to her Prince. Cinderella and the Prince got married and together they drove away in horse and carriage. Cinderella was happy. Cinderella and her Prince lived happily ever after. The end."
When Kitty finished the classic story, she tucked the sleeping Kathy (who had fallen asleep halfway into the story), into the bed. She kissed Kathy and dimmed the light in the room. Kitty went over and placed the book away. She sat on her window bench and looked up at the sky, finding the brightest star. She smiled faintly, tears making her green eyes glow.
"Heavenly angel named Princess Faith of Hope and Dreams, I want the Cinderella life. I mean, I'm living the Cinderella life now. Being abused by Phil, aka the Step parent in my life, and Kathy is actually a nice stepsister...if you have to call her that. But I don't want that life, I want what Cinderella got in the end. Heavenly angel named Princess Faith of Hope and Dreams, please give me that glass slipper. I want to live happily ever after life. Please help me achieve that dream when the school year ends. It's almost January so we have a few more months to go, Heavenly Angel, so please watch over Kathy and I. More so Kathy if not me."
Kitty cried at the end, she curled herself into a ball and cried into her chest. She hated her life. She wanted every pain in her body to go away.
She remembered Marley. Marley was so kind to her the other day and what did Kitty do? Bitch at her, like always. Sometimes Kitty didn't want to be a bitch, but all the pain from her un-perfect home life since she was born got to her and she had to bitch at those who have a perfect life. A perfect mom. A perfect face. A perfect persona. A perfect musical tone. A perfect body.
Perfect. Just always, always, always perfect.
She lived the abused Cinderella life.
Marley lived the married Cinderella life.
She wanted that life.
A Marley Rose life.