Dreams Come True

chapter 1

Felicity tugged her mother's pant leg as she was at her writing desk.

"Felicity, for the last time, your father and I are very busy..." Cherry told her daughter who was very bored at home with nothing to do.

"But whhhy?" Felicity whined, sounding like a true child now. 

Cherry sighed, then had an idea as she remembered that Akito, Estelle, and Vincent were bored too. "Why don't you go to the town square?" she suggested. "Your cousins are going to visit Cinderella's castle... You remember me telling you about her, don't you? I heard Fairy Godmother is there to tell stories to the mice and Cinderella's children."

"Can I go?" Felicity asked her parents, not sounding so bored then.

"Yes, of course you can, dear," Forte said. "You can even go right now."

"Okay..." Felicity was about to go off.

"Wait a minute..." Cherry checked her for anything stray like any mother would, then let her go. "Alright."

Felicity smiled and she dashed off.

In enough time, Felicity met with her cousins as they were trying to look for Cinderella's castle. After greeting each other, the kids were still puzzled.

"Do you know where Cinderella lives, Felicity?" Estelle asked.

"Oui, follow moi..." Felicity decided to be the line-leader.

"Lead the way." Akito said.

Felicity walked with them. The guards glanced to the kids, but allowed them to pass by. While the kids were going, there were two familiar mice making their way, even passing the prince's pet cat who was named Pom-Pom. 

They all walked into the storybook room, just as Fairy Godmother was finishing a story for the mice and two children, a black-haired girl in a shiny blue dress and a dirty blonde-haired boy in a darker blue uniform. 

"'Cinderella and the Prince lived happily ever after... The End'." the Fairy Godmother shut the book, finishing the story, making the two mice and four kids groan.

"We missed it?" Jaq whined.

The girl named Charity looked over to them and nodded. "Mm-hmm."

"Oh, dang it." Akito groaned.

"Maybe you could read another one?" Gus suggested.

"I'm sorry, Gus, but that's the only Cinderella book there is." Fairy Godmother smiled apologetically.

"Yeah, Gus Gus, you heard her, the end, that's all!" Jaq huffed in defeat.

"That is the darnedest shame..." Felicity pouted.

"Hey, that's it!" Vincent had an idea. "What if we made up another Cinderella book?"

"We could tell the stories!" Mary the mouse looked excited.

"And make the drawings!" Akito sounded excited. 

The mice liked this idea.

"Think we can make stories like Maman does?" Felicity wondered. 

"Yeah, let's do it!" Charity giggled, agreeing with her new friends.

"Yeah!" Charles, the son of Cinderella and Prince Charming, said.

"What an excellent idea." Fairy Godmother smiled at this.

"No, no, wait a minute!" Jaq stopped their celebrations. "Who'd wanna read a book made by mice!?"

"Mama might read it." Charity reminded them with a smile, she was just as gracious and carefree as her mother, but she was more of a dreamer and tended to space out, especially whenever she would be tutored. 

"She has a point, dear," Fairy Godmother smiled. "And if you made it, I know she'd love it."

"One problem..." Akito rubbed his arm nervously. "We don't know how to make a book."

"First, we need a cover for the story." Vincent said.

"Oh, don't worry, dears, I think I can help..." Fairy Godmother took out her wand, then sang her Bibbibi-Bobbibi-Boo song as she summoned ways to make a storybook cover for them, including some pages with crayons, scissors, paint, glitter, glue, and several other art supplies to help them make their own second Cinderella story. 

Two female mice sewed and stitched the pages together before they would get started.

"This is so very much exciting!" Felicity was thrilled. 

"We need a story from you." Fairy Godmother started them off.

"Who, us?" Jaq felt lost. 

Charity picked up her younger brother and helped him to the table. "This'll be fun, Charles and I here could learn about stories before we were born! I heard that Akito, Vincent, and Estelle's dad and Felicity's mom helped my mom with you guys to become princess of the castle!"

That reminded Gus of something as he had a crayon drawing. "Oh, wait, wait! How's about... First day at castle?" he suggested to be the first story for their new book.

"Yeah, that sounds like the perfect start of the story." Charles said.

"Yeah, it's a good one." Jaq smiled at the boy.

Fairy Godmother chuckled. "I'd love to hear all about it."

"Indeed." Felicity agreed.

"Tell us, guys." Akito and Estelle said together.

"It was right after Cinderelly and the Prince got married," Jaq told them all as they started the first story of their Cinderella 'sequel'. "Mice-Mice, Cherry, and Atty moved to the big castle, we had it all to ourselves and we were having the time of our lives..." he started to narrate.