Finding My Happily Ever After (A Multifandom Fanfic) | ON HOLD

Chapter Two - The Ball

Cinderella quickly ran back to her wicked family, holding all the garments she held in hand, and stopped in front, holding her head down. 

"I do say Ella, could you be any slower?" Her recently widowed mother, Kang Sook stated.

"Did you drop our dresses?" The older sister Jessica whined.

"How dare you! You know how much mother paid for these!" Krystal, Jessica's younger sister yelled, staring deep into the head of Cinderella. She quickly did a small bow towards her family.

"I am sorry, mother and sisters. I shall clean them when we get home." Her voice quiet, one of her sisters scoffed. Normally, Cinderella would have cried at such harsh tones and words but she has grown immune to such, as her daily life is filled with them.

"You better." Krystal spat. Jessica linked arms with her joining in.

"I have to look beautiful tonight so make sure to make it spotless. Or do you want to go through what happened last night again?" Cinderella raised her head, and shook it quickly, her hands gripping tighter on the smooth gowns in her hands.

"Come now, my darlings. We must make it home to get you ready for the ball tonight. Carry on!" Kang sook, called out walking away without waiting for them. The two sisters gave one last look to Cinderella before they followed, snickering about her as they went on.

Tailing behind, she followed them to the end of the road, maintaining a fair distance as they reached their house.

She quickly ran up to her room above, bringing her sister's dresses with her as she scrubbed them clean. But what her family didn't know was that she had been working on one of her own.

Stitch by stitch, she fashioned a pink dress most beautiful. It was not yet complete tonight for the ball but after cleaning the dirt off of theirs she was determined to do so. She was sure that with all of her hard work that she had done for them lately that they would let her go. Since they were going, if they even let her come it would be a blessing, even if only to watch from afar.

Gently washing with care, she then hung the dresses in the front of the house, letting the sun doing the drying for her.

She proceeded to go back to her room and immediately pulled out her dress smiling at the thought of dancing in it at the ball. She held it with one hand against her as she held the other out in front of her, pretending to dance as she moved around her small space. 

However, when she thought she was alone, little did she know that Krystal was watching her, silently laughing at the spectacle. She then ran to tell her sister, Jessica mortified at the thought of seeing her tonight on her night. They then vowed to do whatever they could do to make sure that she was never to dream of such a thing again : they had decided to destroy her gown. 

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"So," Jinwoon started trying to rake around everything I had told him. "You mean to tell me...that we are in France?" I nodded. We had decided to sit down at a local bar near the castle to talk things through and get something to eat before the ball began.

"At least that is where the story takes place." I added, taking a bit of the cheese in front of us and spreading it on the cracker in my hand. I then placed it in my mouth, completely satisfied at how it tasted. Jinwoon had ordered a beer and was sipping on it as we talked.

"So what happens at the end of the story?" He ponders, looking at me with his big curious eyes.

"Basically, the Prince goes to every house in the town and outside of the town to find the owner of the slipper. He eventually finds Cinderella and when the shoe fits, they get married, almost right away." Jinwoon choked on his drink, coughing as I told him that.