Cinderella is Evil by Jamie Campbell

Cinderella is Evil by Jamie Campbell

Author:Jamie Campbell
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, cinderella, fairy tale, Love, prince
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER 5

I was dragged from my nightmares by someone shoving at me. For the few precious hours of sleep I managed to get, my mind had swirled with laughing faces of everyone in the town. Their taunts and teasing still echoed in my head, even when I was trying to awaken.

“Anna, get up this minute.” It was Mother, she was standing by my bedside and insisting I follow her commands.

“Mother, what is it?” I sat up in bed and rubbed my eyes, trying to make the world un-blur.

“Prince Charming is here, he’s visiting every house in the kingdom.”

“Why would he do that?” Now I knew it was the prince waking me from my slumber, I was even more annoyed by it.

“He’s talking something about a shoe. Get up, make yourself presentable, and get downstairs. We can’t leave him waiting.” Mother threw a dress on the bed before leaving me with one last warning look.

As much as I didn’t want to get up, or care about damn Prince Charming, I obeyed my orders. I quickly wriggled into my dress, ran a brush through my hair and took one last look in the mirror. I wasn’t exactly royal family worthy, but I would do. I doubted any more time or effort would have improved my appearance.

I hurried down the stairs to see Mother and Zelly already waiting. The Prince was with his valet and he held a shoe tightly in his hands, like it might slip away from his grasp.

The memories from the previous night came tumbling back at seeing him. Like the events were photographs in my mind, they flashed through it like lightning. The teasing, the prince embarrassing me, the way he pushed me aside to dance with Cinderella, the coach, my step-sister running away, and then the shoe.

I knew immediately the slipper held by Prince Charming belonged to Cinderella. What I didn’t know was why he was standing in our reception hall holding it with such veracity.

“This is all of us now,” Mother prompted. I looked around, Cinderella wasn’t anywhere in sight. I gave Mother a questioning look and she just shrugged. She was probably sulking in her room like she normally did. We couldn’t insult the prince by telling him she wouldn’t come down.

The prince looked around as if just as suspicious as I was. “Okay then. I fell in love with a woman last night, one that I danced with. But at the stroke of midnight she ran from the ball without giving me her name. All I have is this slipper that she dropped. I need to find her so I’m going door to door until I try every maiden’s foot in the kingdom. I must find my love.”

“How romantic,” Zelly swooned. “Perhaps I am your fair maiden?”

I had to suppress a laugh. Zelly was completely wonderful in her own right, but her big foot would never fit inside that little, delicate slipper. Anyone would be able to tell that just by looking at the thing.

“Oh, do try it on Zelly first,” Mother commanded, trying not to sound too excited.



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