Tale as Old as Time | ✓

Cinderella

Ella smiled at her father as she placed the cup of tea on the table. Her stepmother, Lady Tremaine sat next to her father on the sofa and read the newspaper.

"There you go, Papa." Ella said as she sat next to him. Her father was in the middle of signing another business deal and he smiled at her as he put the papers down. He stretched his hands and twirled his neck before picking up the tea cup from the table. He took a sip and sighed in delight as the tea helped him relax from the working stress.

The room felt afresh due to the recent sprinkling of the rose water, Ella had just done. Ella fidgeted in her seat as she slowly turned towards her father and asked, "How is it, Papa?" Ella saw her stepmother roll her eyes in her peripheral vision, but, she ignored her as she focused on her father.

"Ahh, darling." Her father began and then released a pleasing sigh, "It's lovely as ever and the taste is sweet as you are. Thank you for this, my love." He said as he turned around in his place to face her and placed a hand on her head to pat her lovingly.

Her stepmother cleared her throat breaking the lovely moment between the father-daughter duo, and began, "Ella, darling. Why don't you bring your father the cookies you baked?" She said slightly nodding her head towards Ella.

Upon hearing this, Ella jumped to her feet as she almost forgot about those cookies, "Yes, Papa." She said as she walked towards the kitchens, "I'll be back in a second." Her father smiled at her and she exited through the doors. As she left the room, she could see her stepmother talking to her father in hushed tones.

Ella's face scrunched in confusion but, nonetheless she continued walking towards the kitchens. As she walked towards her kitchen, she heard some soft mumbling and thudding coming from the staircase leading to her room, she walked in the direction only to find Jaq and Gus fighting each other over a piece of cheese.

Ella laughed lightly at their little fight and this seemed to break them apart, they both look at Ella in horror as they realized they had been found. Ella tried to excel a stern look without doubling over with laughter and it worked but, then she lost her control and laughed loudly. Jaq and Gus, scratched their head nervously and Ella bent down to pat their heads, she placed her palm on the ground for them to climb up and they do it without hesitation.

She turned towards the kitchen and began, "What have I told you both?" She asks them with a stern gaze and they shy away from her question, "You know better than to fight over food." She reached the kitchens while scolding them and as she entered, a loud thud sounds from the cabinet and Ella stopped in her tracks.

Jaq and Gus both turn their heads to look for the source of sound and Ella walked faster further into the kitchen. As she rounded the kitchen island, she saw Anastasia and Drizella bent down on the ground haphazardly trying to gather the cookie crumb off the kitchen floor. Their dresses are covered in cookie batter and their hair is sticking out in every direction as they had been fighting.

They are still unaware of Ella's presence and Ella smiled amusingly at the mice, they smirk back at her. Ella folded her hands as she waited for them to finish up clearing the evidence.

"What are you doing, idiot?" Anastasia mumbled to Drizella, "We weren't supposed to finish it all off!" She bangs Drizella's head against the drawers and Drizella winces at the pain and smacks Anastasia's hands off her head.

"It's all your fault." Drizella spoke with annoyance in her tone, "Your pretty head doesn't know that its dumb. You just couldn't stop eating it." She exclaimed as she gathered the crumb together to pick them up.

"What was I supposed to do, ugly head?" Anastasia replied with a sigh and she looked at the cookie crumb with adoration, "They are just so good." She stopped collecting them and just looked at them, "Why did she have to make them so tasty?" She cried hysterically.