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Cinderella and the Fat Prince

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there was a horrendous, and terribly fat girl named Cinderella. But, apart from her looks, Cinderella had a beautiful soul, and she was so kind that even animals loved her.

Cinderella lived with her cruel stepmother, and amazingly gorgeous stepsister. They both treated Cinderella like a servant, and always made fun of her.

Cinderella hated the fact that she had to do all the work and they never did anything, besides shop and gossip, oh and make fun of her.
One day, a royal messenger stopped right outside their door, and said:
“Hear ye, hear ye, all women in this house, and in all the kingdom, are invited to a royal ball, hosted by the king himself! The purpose of this ball is to find a beautiful woman to marry the prince, and to be the next queen!!” then he rode off on his horse, to the next house.
“That means I can go!” Cinderella cried.
Her stepsister and stepmother burst with laughter.
“Imagine, Cinderella dancing with the prince! Plus, remember what the messenger said, “the purpose of the ball is to find a beautiful woman! You? Beautiful? Never!” cackled her stepsister “I can only think of one who would dance with you, the broom!!”
“But the letter says that every girl is invited,” Cinderella begged.
“So it does,” the stepmother agreed, “You may go- if you get all the work done. And, if you find something to wear!”
“Oh, thank you!” said Cinderella. She dashed up the stairs to her room.
Cinderella pulled a big, and simple dress out of her trunk.
“This was my mother’s dress,” she told the mice.
“Isn’t it pretty? It just needs some fixing up… But it will even fit me! My mother looked just like me, that’s what my father always used to say.”The animals had never seen her this ecstatic before!
A skinny mouse named Jaq thought Cinderella would have the most beautiful gown at the ball, but wasn’t sure about her natural look and size. A fat mouse named Gus agreed, but thought her size would be fine.
Cinderella took out her sewing kit.
“I’ll need a sash and some beads,” she said.
Just then her stepmother shouted, “Cinderella! Cinderella!”
Cinderella rushed downstairs, disappointed.
“Cinderella, do your work,” her stepmother ordered, “And dust the drapes and clean the windows and finish the sewing.”
The mice felt sorry for Cinderella.
“Cinderelly, do this! Cinderelly, do that!” Jaq mocked the cruel stepmother.
“Cinderelly will never be able to fix her dress. Then her stepmother won’t have to let her go to the ball” Gus said.
“Poor Cinderelly,” all the mice agreed.
Someone had an idea.
“Why don’t we fix the dress for Cinderelly? We can fix it!”
Everyone wanted to help finish the dress. Gus and Jaq tip toed into the stepsister’s room. She was busy getting ready for the ball.
“This sash is old,” she yelled.
“You can’t wear these beads, they’re disgusting!” hollered the stepmother. She threw them away. Gus and Jaq took the sash and the beads.
“Pretty, pretty!” Gus whispered in awe.
“Shhh!” Jaq hissed, while he snuck back to the attic.
Soon everyone was busy, measuring, cutting, sewing, working hard, all for Cinderella.
Soon it was time to leave for the ball.
“My, my, Cinderella,” the stepmother sneered. “You are not quite ready, what a pity.”
Cinderella slowly walked up the stairs to her room.
“Oh, well, it's just a royal ball,” she said. “It would be boring, and dull…” Cinderella sighed, “And amazingly fun!”
“Surprize!” shrieked the animals as Cinderella entered.
"Oh, it's amazing! Beautiful! Thank you!" Cinderella cried.
"All for you!" the mice replied as Cinderella was changing.
She rushed downstairs, just in time for them to leave.
"Look! Look! I have a dress! I can go to the ball!" Cinderella shouted with joy.
"Well, well, you do… but Cinderella, really, that ugly fat face would never be fit for the prince. You may come, but double chores tomorrow."
"And," her stepsister said eagerly, "You stole that, and that, and that! These are my clothes, do you understand? Mine, mine, mine! Not yours!" she tore the sashes and beads from Cinderella's dress, leaving her in a big mess of big, dirty rags, they left without another word.
"I don’t understand.." Cinderella sniffed, while she ran outside, onto the bench, "Why.. sniff.. they..sniff.. have to be so cruel to me..sniff.."
Suddenly, a bright light shun in Cinderella's eyes, and a plump, old woman popped out of nowhere!
"Who are you?" asked Cinderella, "And how did you get here? Just, so unexpectedly!"
"Well… for your first question, I am your fairy godmother, for your second, I have one answer, well two actually, magic, and fairy school!" replied the fairy godmother.
"Umm, not trying to be rude, but what are you going to do to me exactly?" said Cinderella, shyly.
"Well, that is 100% up to you, honey, you may have whatever you want!"
"Would it be too much to ask to be skinny and beautiful for once?" said Cinderella, politely.
"Not too much at all," replied the fairy godmother, "And for transportation, that pumpkin will do, and those four mice… yes, yes, that seems right, and also, if you don’t mind, the horse, and dog will make fine coach men!" said the fairy godmother, mostly to herself.
"Oh, thankyou! It has always been my wish to be beautiful, for I am always made fun of for my looks… Even if it only lasts awhile, which reminds me, how long will it last?" said Cinderella.
"Well, you see, none of my spells are permanent, so you will have to be back by midnight, that is when the spell will run out and you will return to your normal, self," responded the fairy godmother.
"That will do, I guess," Cinderella whispered.
"Then off you go to the royal ball! Good bye, Cinderella, good bye!"
"Goodbye! And thank you!"
Cinderella was already in the pumpkin, on her way, when she saw her reflection in a pond across the road, she was beautiful, prettier than her stepsister! This was all her dreams, come true! She was filled with joy, and then she saw it, the glorious, huge, majestic castle, right before her eyes. She ran up the stairs, and outside the ballroom, excited already. As she entered, she felt many eyes on her. She heard things like:
"Beautiful! Magnificent! Glorious!"
Also, she distinctly heard her stepmother say, "Doesn’t she look familiar?" and, "I swear I've seen her before!"
When she finally got past all the staring eyes, she ran straight for the prince, who by now was looking very bored, but when she came to him he light up immediately.
"Would you like to dance?" said the prince to Cinderella, shyly.
"Why, yes, yes I would like to dance with you," replied Cinderella.
They started to dance, and then laugh, and even sing together along with their favorite songs, and they were having an amazing time, until the clock suddenly struck midnight.
"Oh, I must go now, I'm so sorry!" said Cinderella
"Why do you have to go so suddenly?" asked the prince, startled.
"No time to explain, but I had a wonderful time, just wonderful! Good night!" she called after her shoulder.
"But Cinderella!" the prince ran and ran, but could not find her, after looking for awhile, he found a glass slipper, very petite and thin, but beautiful, and he knew two things: it belonged to Cinderella, and he needed to find her right away.
The next day, the prince preformed a search for the one girl who's foot fit perfectly in the slipper, and he would marry her, for he would know it was Cinderella. When Cinderella's stepmother found out about this, at first, she wanted to lock Cinderella up, but then thought:
"She's way too big to fit anyway, so I might as well let her embarrass herself in front of the prince!"
When the prince arrived, Cinderella was first to the door. She tried the slipper on right away, knowing that it was her who had danced with the prince, and was so excited! She closed her eyes, too afraid to look, and then slowly, slowly, inch by inch, she put her chubby toes into the slipper, then her whole foot, but wait, it was stuck! She couldn’t get her foot in! Cinderella was so upset, she wanted to burst with tears!
"Let me try it on now!" snapped the stepsister, "I'm sure it will fit me!"
"Ok, here now, I can just try to slip it right on you now," mumbled the prince, "Oh, my! Oh, my! It fits! It fits! The slipper fits! You, fair maiden, are to be my wife, wedded to me by next week, tomorrow even! Yes! We'll have it tomorrow, be ready by 10:00 am, everyone is invited, even servants!" the prince said, grinning, "You will be the new princess!"
Cinderella ran up to her room sobbing, she was supposed to be the princess! she was the one who danced with the prince and fell in love with him! And now she had to go off and watch him marry someone else, whom she hated.
Just then, her stepmother called, "Cinderella! Oh, Cinderella! Come help your stepsister find a dress for her wedding! And start setting up the party room for tomorrow night! Chop, chop‼"
"Coming!" Cinderella yelled, as she wiped all the tears from her face, even though it was probably still reddened.
"Cinderella, why were you crying? Do you have an issue with the marriage arrangement? Even you know that you would never be standing up there, about to marry a prince! You probably won't even ever marry with those terrible looks!" bragged the stepmother, "But no time for talking now, get to work!"
Cinderella fitted the dress, and cleaned the palace, and finally was done all the work, when she realized the wedding was in an hour and she had nothing to wear, and didn’t think anything besides rags would ever fit her. So she made a decision, she would wear the rags of the dress she was planning on wearing to the ball, she didn’t care if it was ripped, she had no one to impress, and no one to love.
At the wedding, after the ceremonies, both families had lunch together, to get to know each other. At first Cinderella didn’t feel like family, but she thought,
"If my stepmother will allow me, then I should allow myself!" and she went along with this thought until she saw how beautiful and handsome everyone in the royal family was. She felt so intimidated, that she was about to get up and leave, when suddenly she saw a fat, ugly man, but he was wearing a royal crown! She couldn’t believe her eyes, a fat and ugly prince? It couldn’t be!
"Umm, would you like to dance?" whispered Cinderella, very shyly.
"Would I? I mean yes, I would love to," he said, awkwardly.
So they danced and danced, and after awhile, Cinderella fell in love with him, she also found out that he is the prince's stepbrother, and was not treated as well as him, for he was ugly and fat. After she heard this she said, "So, you are royal, but because you are not blood related family, or good looking, they treat you badly?"
"Well, yes, that’s it," replied the fat prince.
"Then you know exactly how I feel! Because I am the new princess's stepsister, and she and her mother treat me badly, just because I'm ugly!"
"Then I do know how you feel, and you know how I feel, and that’s never happened to me before," said the fat prince, "Umm, Cinderella, I've also never felt so in love with someone before, I don’t care how you look, I just love you for who you are! So Cinderella, will you marry me?" asked the fat prince.
"Yes, I will, yes, I am delighted! We will live somewhere far away, and yes! Oh, yes! I love you too!" replied Cinderella.
"Really? Well, why don’t we have the wedding as soon as possible then, it doesn’t have to be a royal one, just a small ceremony, maybe not even with our family! umm, does that sound ok to you?"
"Well, I would like some friends to be there, well their not even people, but they do talk, um, my animals, mice and birds, that’s all really," said Cinderella, "I can't believe it, me? a princess? Oh, my!"
So the next year, just to make sure they wanted it, they got married, far, far away, with all the animals.
And they lived together, happily ever after.

Joelle 6a