Chapter 9
"We have arrived!" Stefan sang from the front seat pulling into a parking lot.
He lifted Aurora out of her car seat while Leah got the picnic basket out of the boot of the car and held her hand while she jumped up and down excitedly in her sparkly pink sandals.
They walked through the park for a bit until they reached the spot they always went to, and Leah dug out a pastel pink sticky note from her pocket and crouched down beside her daughter, "Alright, here's the first clue, princess."
Aurora hunched over it for several minutes, her eyebrows furrowed in concentration, her chubby fingers stabbing at each individual letter. "S-W-I-N-G! Swing! Look, I did it mummy!"
"That's right! Well done! Leah clapped her hands together and they ran over to the swings together while Stefan spread the picnic blanket on the ground.
When Leah and Aurora got to the swings, there was a small chocolate egg wrapped in blue foil, along with a bubblegum pink sticky note which had another word on it. Aurora giggled with delight, and clapped her hands together. She spelled out the second word and then went running to the sandpit, her parents following behind her so that the sunlight bathed the family in a bright golden glow.
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Aurora sat cross-legged on her bed watching as Jasmine dyed Ariel's hair, "You're making a right mess of that."
Ariel immediately made a grab for her phone, chewing her lip anxiously as she turned on the camera.
"It'll look good when it's finished," Jasmine side-eyed Aurora, "Have a bit of faith."
Ariel closed the camera and began to play Candy Crush, "I believe in you, Jasmine, but remember, I've got to go to my ceremony thingy in a few weeks."
Jasmine gasped, "Oh, yeah! Aurora, Ariel is gonna have a title in a couple of weeks because she's turning 16, so her official title will be Lady Ariel of Atlantica, isn't that cool?"
"Oh wow, that's really..." Aurora hoisted her suitcase on top of her bed and tipped everything out, pausing when a sheet of pink paper fluttered down. "...cool."
She picked up the paper, and frowned. The handwriting could only belong to one person, but it was the paper that the words were written on that really confirmed who wrote it.
"And when they gave her ashes, she made herself a flame.
This is how Cinderella came to earn her name."
~ Katie Anne Dylan
"What's the matter?" Jasmine asked
"My Aunt Mavis left this note in my suitcase, but I'm not sure what it means."
Jasmine shrugged, "Maybe it was an accident?"
"Well I don't know, because she always uses this paper whenever she does Easter egg hunts... She wasn't able to do one this year, I reckon she's trying to make up for it."
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Heavy is the Head
FanfictionA story set in the modern day with the Disney Princesses as the main characters living life as 'normal' teenagers. Their paths eventually cross when they all go to a prestigious boarding school called Northuldra Academy together where secrets are re...
