The Cinderella story has our main character Cinderella, her two stepsisters and step mother. If I'm the eldest step sister Anastasia then I have to face my mother, my own sister Drizella and step sister Cinderella.
Anastasia is arrogant, stupid, and... Ugly??
I mean just look at this face, it has just some acne and acne marks and a little tanned. Its really basic skin problem which can be treated with skincare and diet.
"I wish I had my skincare kit then these wouldn't be a problem anymore."
But I know DIY so it will be fine.
I think in actual Cinderella I don't know anything about the stepsisters just because they were the villains. Only there bad traits were shown.
But here I learned about them quite a bit.
So everything is same as the story-
Stepmother is married twice and Cinderella's father died when he went for a business trip. And everyone is treating Cinderella badly just like the story. But the mother is different, she is so scary nagging all the time.
"In the movies she never scolded her children and always supported them while bullying. But here she is always nagging."
"Anastasia sit straight."
"Anastasia speak slowly."
"Anastasia don't run."
"Anastasia don't laugh loudly."
"Anastasia this, Anastasia that... She really needs a husband to keep her busy or maybe its her menopause."
*Sigh*
I lay down on bed and relaxed a bit. Everything is so peaceful, far away from the hustle and bustle of my town.
"But I'm so bored. I'm glad there is no need to go to school anymore but I wish I had my phone."
Suddenly someone barged inside my room and lay down right beside me.
"Anne, what are you doing?"
"Drizzy, you came at the right time. I'm bored. Let's do something."
"Like what?"
"Like making mother angry. She is always angry when we are happy."
We started laughing loudly.
Right, I never knew the stepsisters had this kind of bonding between them. Why not, after all they are blood related.
Drizella is the second stepsister, in the story she was useless like Anastasia but in real it was totally opposite. She is really sweet and friendly. She was a little distant with me at first even if she talked with me but after I had a sleepover with her in her room and opened up myself a little bit she got comfortable with me really quick.
That day I went to her room with my pillow...
"Drizella, let's have a sleepover."
She was definitely surprised but never opposed to it. I went straight to her bed and hopped on to lie down. I patted beside me, indicating her to lie down too.
She was hesitant at first but did as I said.
That night we talked a lot. About our past, our present, our future, our mother, Cinderella and our feelings.
I realized she isn't a bad girl like in the story. She just needed someone to open up.
She was really worried about her mother and how her mother always keeps worrying about marrying us off to some rich guy. She is also a little angry at Cinderella but mostly due to her father whose death ruined our life.
I mean really, it was already hard for their mother to decide about second marriage and look what happened to that newly wed guy. HE DIED.... Good job.
I'm worried that everyone will think that she is the bad luck who killed her husband.
And now she has to take care of her two daughters and another extra thanks to her so-called husband. I can understand why they are angry at Cinderella but it's not her fault right?
Four of these girls in this household have their own problems but at least I will be able to amend one life.
Drizzy loves reading and writing, she also writes stories and poems, she even told me one, about the moon. She has few others but she wouldn't dare to show someone else, she only told me when I asked her about her favorite hobby and she made swear that I'll never tell anyone about it.
We also snicked into the kitchen for some cookies and milk.
We were almost got caught by mother but thankfully we escaped narrowly. We had fun and grew closer. We also decided to give each other a pet name but only when we are alone cause
according to mother this isn't lady like and from then on our bonding keeps increasing.
While thinking all these Drizzy said,
"Let's go outside, maybe to the garden. Everything happened so quickly we never got a chance to explore the house."
"Good idea. Let's go."
I agreed with her and we both went to the garden.
There is a garden in front of the house with all kinds of flowers and the back of the house has stable for horses, hencoop and a small well where Cinderella does all the washing.
There is an area to sit with shades in the middle of the garden I told Drizzy to go ahead and I will follow her with some drinks.
I went to the kitchen where Cinderella was preparing for the lunch.
"Ohh Cinderella, what are you doing? "
She is stirring the pot and simply ignored my question.
Unlike the story where Cinderella is either happy or sad, in reality she can get angry to but her anger is always ruled over by our mother's anger.
I didn't mind that she ignored me. I know it will take time for us to be on a good term.
I went straight to prepare a cool drink like lemonade or something to drink outside.
"If you need anything just tell me. Don't make a mess for me to clean up."
That's how she talks with me when no one is around, I'm used to it now. I'm glad she can show her true emotions in front of me.
"No need, you continue what you are doing. I'm fine. I won't make a mess I promise."
I gave a smile and went on what I was doing.
She kept staring for while then she went back to what she was doing. After a few minutes, I completed making lemonade with ice and cleaned up the area.
I took a tray and put two glasses of lemonade on it.
There is another one, which I made for Cinderella. I approached her to give it.
"Umm... Cinderella!! Here, take it."
She looked at me and then towards the glass. I bent down beside her put the glass in the ground.
"I made some chilly lemonade for us. This one is for you. Have a taste."
After that I went out with the tray. I hope she will give that a try.
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Cinderella got a little supried when suddenly Anastasia came and gave her a glass of what she made. She knows very well that has lemonade in it and it is safe to drink because even if it looks like she is ignoring Anastasia but in real she was keeping an eye on her for any misshape or some prank.
But surprisingly everything was normal and Anastasia really did made lemonade for three of them without any secret motive and also cleaned up her own mess.
It was the first time when Anastasia didn't order her like some maid and did everything by herself.
She was still a little reluctant to believe her but however she took the glass and had a sip.
"It is actually a lemonade."
She kept staring for awhile and then drink the whole glass. It was really refreshing after sitting in the kitchen for so long.
"She must have something on her mind. After all she is her daughter."
She put the glass aside and went on with her cooking. After all, it will take some time for her to accept this kindness after how badly she was treated by her.
Anastasia and Drizella enjoyed the garden with the drink, plucked flowers, followed butterflies.
"Anne, when did you learn to make this. It's so tasty and refreshing."
"Don't worry, I'll teach you the recipe later."
"Hmm...okay."
It was so long since they did what they wanted and had fun.
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SIDE NOTE: I'm portraying myself in Anastasia to show how a lazy modern day girl can be. Sorry to say I'm too lazy to do house work and can only make few easy food like tea, instant noodles etc. 😅
Too pampered by my parents I guess.
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