Charmed, I'm Sure by Sarah Darer Littman

Author:Sarah Darer Littman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

Chapter Nine

AFTER TEXTING KATIE AND NICOLE to see if they want to go to the soccer game tomorrow, I spend most of the evening in my room looking in the Mirror. I want to know what went wrong. I have to figure out why Mystery Shakespeare Boy was immune to my Fairest in the Land Charmingosity when most other boys seemed enchanted by it.

Magic Mirror, can you tell

Why the boy I like so well

Does not seem to bat an eye

When the fab new me walks by?

I look at my reflection from various angles as I wait for the Mirror to reply.

Fret not, Princess, you are Fair.

Over those small spots do not despair.

This serf is not the prince for you.

He is not fit to kiss your shoe.

Wow. That’s seriously harsh. I might be mad at Mystery Shakespeare Boy, but calling him a serf is totally OTT. The Mirror is old. Maybe it doesn’t understand that things are more PC these days. All men are created free and equal and all that.

Mirror, Mirror, family treasure,

I honor you beyond all measure.

But you can’t just call a guy a serf.

These days we all have the same worth.

Oh no! Is that a zit on my nose now? I swear that just appeared out of nowhere. I wonder if the Mirror is giving me pimples as punishment.

Princess Rosie, you ignorant girl.

How little you know about the world.

You are the Princess, The Fairest, The One

And those who are not, they are just . . . scum.

I slam the compact shut.

All those stories I’ve heard about my stepgrandmother’s vanity and cruelty—that was the voice I heard just now from the Mirror.

It takes me a long time to fall asleep that night, and when I do, I dream of being buried under an avalanche of poisoned apples, but when I call for help, all I hear is the Mirror, laughing.

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