Artemis's Hunter

"Scrub Harder!" My evil stepsister Elizabeth yelled at me.

"Why am I scrubbing the floor again?" I asked, "I didn't see anything on the ground in the first place,"

"I saw what I saw, and if you don't clean it then I'm telling mom," she sneered. I know this seems like a 5 year old threating to tell mom but Elizabeth is acually 17, the same age as me. I hate her. She has blue eyes, blonde hair, and a wart on the side of her face. I would tease her about it but then my stepmother, Martha, would give me extra chores for a week. And I already have to clean the floors, wash the dishes, feed the animals, cook the food, wash the windows, clean up after the animals, and all the other things to do. Basically, I'm almost their maid. A scream broke me out of my thoughts. I got up and rushed into the dining room from where the screech came from. It was my other stepsister Natilie.

"Look at this!" she sceeched point to her cup, "its a spot! On my cup!" I leaned closer trying to see it.

"I don't see anything," I replied, taking the glass and peering into it.

"ARE YOU BLIND?!!!!" she screamed at me, "ITS RIGHT THERE!!!!" I rolled my eyes.

"Whats going on here?" Martha stepped in the room glaring at me like she already knows that I did something wrong.

"Maria didn't clean a spot on this cup and now I could die from dirt!" Natilie whined.

"I was cleaning it!" I objected, " I was just saying that I didn't see anything in the first place!" Martha narrowed her eyes at me.

"Extra chores for a week," My sisters both sneered at me which was creepy considering that there twins and they look exactly the same.

"Yes, Martha," I said looking at the floor.

"You will call me Ms. Martha, since you refuse to call me mother and Henry father," she smiled, "though I think we're much better than YOUR parents,"

"You can never replace mother and father!" I yelled at her.

"What ever happened to them anyway?" asked Elizabeth, " I want to know so I can brag about how I have parents and you don't!"

*Flashback*

"Maria!" my father called in a weak voice, " Come here darling," I ran up to my fathers bed as quick as I could, for the doctor said that he would die soon, but the doctor did not know I was listening.

"Yes father?" I asked in a weak voice. His face was pale and he was weak.

"Maria, I am dying," he said slowly, " I want you to take care of your Mother,"

"Mothers dead," I answered, " And Martha will never be a mother to me," He smiled slightly

"So stuborn. Just like your mother,"

"Father, please don't go!" I pleaded, "Your all I have. I can't go on without you!"

"It is my time, darling. I am to weak,"

"No! Please don't go!" I pleaded. I tried not to cry because would be the last time I saw him. He took my hand and placed it in his.

"I'm sorry," he whispered, and his hand fell.

"No! Please come back!" A tear streamed down my face and soon I was full on sobbing by his bed. Martha walked in.

"Oh, he's gone," she shrugged, "Without him I don't have to pretend to be nice to you," I looked up into her cold hard eyes and decided at that moment that she had no heart.

"Welcome," she sneered, "To your personel Hell,"

Hi guys!!!! So this is my new story, and as I said before I already know the whole plot so it won't take forever for me to upload..... I really hope you like it!!!!!

-TextingQueen321