Our story -A different POV in the famous stories.

Chapter I - Cinderella

Anastasias Pov (4 years before Lady Tremaine marries Cinderellas dad)

I woke up in the mansion of Drizellas snoring. She is my sister and I love her, but I could wish I didn't have to share room with her. We are the second richest around here with plenty of rooms. The only family richer is the Gertrudes. Dad is a friend and ally with Sir Gertrude, and mom... She had another kind of affair with him. At least until he found out she was Dads wife. He didn't wanted to ruin his friendship and knew that dad would listen to mom instead of him, so he kept quiet. But mom has charm, and I think he still likes her. She would kill me if she found out I knew.

Literally

I got out from bed and changed clothes. Then I sneaked over to dads office. "Anastasia, good morning. I put your breakfast on your desk." Dad went over to a cabinet and opened it. In there was a hole to the best place in the universe, also called my secret office.

I went in and looked around. I had a bookshelf covering the wall in front of me and a desk in front of the giant window you could see out from, but not in. In a corner it was a blue comfy chair with a lamp over and a little table. In another corner was my microscope and telescope. It was also a pin board on the wall with my research and notes. What did i researched, you wondering? Stars.

According to my books Anaxagoras suggested that stars actually was suns long away, but no one belived him and he was banished from Athens. Later Giordano Bruno suggested the same thing. He got burned at a stake. But today, I will research the same thing and make it. Without dying. I was working with adjusting the telescope for tonight when I heard horses and wheels.

It was the Gertrudes. Lady Gertrude died in an accident two years ago, so it was only Sir Gertrude and his daughter, Ella. Ella was about my age and really nice. She is my best friend. I ran out of the room and to the entrance. Dad was already there and I saw mom yell at a servant around the corner before she plastered a smile on and went over to us. Drizella was still asleep.

Ella was wearing a beautiful blue dress with white flowers. She also used a matching hairband. Mom scowled of the sight of Ella. She does not exactly like her. Ella went over to me and gave me a hug. Dad let us go inside. We played chess and talked about random stuff for a while. "Ella! Please come down now, we have to head home," Sir Gertrude said from the stairs. Ella sighed, silently gave me a hug and left.

I went down to the kitchen to get something to eat. Mom was there. That was strange since she never goes down there, but instead scream to a servant for food. She had a dreamy look on her eyes and an evil grin. I should have at least considered this being suspicious, but instead I put it aside. Big mistake.

I found some cookies and went to the library and found a book about butterflies. I had already read most of the books about stars, and if I wanted to find more, I would need to search for hours. The book had a lot of different kinds of butterflies, including a beautiful blue one I loved. That was the last moment of happiness in my life before it all went wrong.

I was just finishing my drawing of the blue butterfly when the little dinner bell rang, meaning it was ten minutes until dinner. I went to my office and pinned the butterfly on the wall before I went to the dining room.

Drizzella, who had finnaly woke up was already sitting there and pinned her knife in the table. Mom and dad came a minute later just as the servants came with the food. It was roasted beaf with mashed potatos and Caldeirada stew.

Drizzella and I got tea, while the servants poured wine to dad. When they went over to mom she just said "No thanks, I will take water" and smiled. Dad looked at her, a little bit shocked, but quickly hid it with a smile.

I was done with eating when it happened. Dad started coughing "Excuse me," he said, and ran out of the door. Drizzella looked confused, mom just kept eating like nothing had happened and I ran after dad. He hadn't got far. I saw him sitting on the floor while he coughed up blood. A lot.

"Help!" I shouted. I don't really know what I thought would happened, since no one was there. I kneeled beside that and tried to come up with something that could help. But the thing was, I was not a doctor. I had no idea what to do, and my dad would die because I didn't care about medicines.

But dad just smiled. He was pale, coughing up blood and lying on the floor, but he just smiled. He fumbled with his pocket and took up a tiny little thing. It was a necklace with a pendant formed as a star and a beautiful blue gem inside of it.

"Anastasia, your mother is a complete idiot."

Yeah. That was what dad said.

"Promise me this, Anastasia. Take care of your sister, continue your dreams, and do not get fooled of your mother. Keep your hopes up, like a butterfly heeding for the stars."

"I promise" That was all I needed to say. I had officially said everything I ever would to my dad.

"Good. Now, for the sake of peanut butter, let me sleep" Wow, dad.

That was one week ago. His death has been investigated a lot, but no one knows how he died. No one except for me and Lady Tremaine. We was going to the funeral today when a little blue butterfly came and sat on my shoulder. Normally, a butterfly would rarely do that, let alone stay there, but this one did.

"Hey, Beautiful." The butterfly stayed at my shoulder the trough the entire funeral. When we were done, the butterfly sat on my nose before it flew away.

"Heed for the stars, Beautiful."

So, what do you think? Was it bad, was it good, was it short, was it long? Please tell me.

Disclaimer: The original Cinderella story was made of this Greek dude thousands of years ago, the Grimm brothers have made a Cinderella story close to the version used today, and Disney have made the version that I used. About the star stuff, I was really going to find out which source I used, but I don't remember. So if you ever have made a website about it you might have been an important part of Our Story. Yeah, that is all.

Published 1. November 2022

Edited 16. November 2023

Word count: 1165