Prologue
Magic is the enemy in this story.
Everyone knows the original Cinderella story. Cinderella grows up with her father after her mom dies. Her father ends up remarrying to an evil woman, who becomes her evil stepmother. Her evil stepmother- Regina- has two ugly, evil daughters- Anastasia and Tresamiane - with blackened souls as dark as the night- they become her evil stepsisters. They are all selfish, and cruel, and hate anything or anyone that doesn’t make them rich.
Her father dies not too long after he marries her new stepmother, under ‘suspicious’ circumstances and she becomes the housemaid for the evil family. She does their chores and work, for a small price: a room and food and the hope that she will one day live her dreams.
One day, the night of the ball, she discovers she has a fairy godmother, and escapes with a little help from her, clad in a beautiful ball gown and glass slippers. Attached to her is a promise: to be home before midnight, when everything would slip away. The dress: gone. The carriage: turns back into a pumpkin. The shoes: Well, one gets left behind. She gets there late, attracting the prince. They dance, they talk, and they even sneak a kiss-and then the bell rings signaling her time is up and she must leave no matter what or he will know the truth. Her shoe is left behind-on accident of course. The prince vows to find that girl and marry her after finding the glass slipper that only fits her. He tries it on every girl in town, the foot either being too big, too small, too wide or too narrow, but he eventually finds her. Cinderella then gets her happy ever that she has always dreamed of.
But what ever happened to the ‘evil’ family? What if they were never even evil- or one of them wasn’t at least? What if that wasn’t how the story actually went? What if one of the sisters was Cinderella’s friend, and was kind, and wanted to help her escape? What if…Cinderella was the real evil one? Because, this is a fairy tale gone wrong.
