"Once Upon A Time"

“Once upon a time…”  

Once upon a time there lived a beautiful stepmother

Who lived with her caring daughters

They had it all; fame, fortune, everything to live a simple life.

Until one day everything was taken from them.

Their jobs, their house, even their poor father and husband

Time pasted and the stepmother grieved for her husband and now starving children

She could not think of another way out except to marry again.

Cinderella’s father met the stepmother and they fell in love.

Cinderella was envious of her new stepmother who cared so deeply for the poor girl.

One night Cinderella devised a plan to make her stepmother regret marring her father,

She took a knife behind her back ever-so quietly,

She met her stepmother in the kitchen and acted as if she were having a nightmare.

Concerned, the stepmother bent down just enough to give Cinderella a hug and just as she did…

“You will never be my mother!”

Cinderella’s father rushed downstairs as he heard the screaming and looked down in complete awe.

There laid his baby daughter on the floor covered in blood, knife on the floor.

The stepmother could not do anything for she was stunned.

As Cinderella’s father starts trying to clean up, he asks her who did this.

She pointed to her stepmother with tears trailing down her face.

The stepmother felt betrayed,

She vowed to get revenge on her stepdaughter.

No matter what it took.

By: Haley Leann Mullins