Cinderella: The Ugly Start

  Once upon a time, there was a girl named Cinderella. She was ugly and thus, no one liked her. One day, news came that the prince was going to host a ball. However, Cinderella was too ashamed of her looks to go to the ball, and thus locked herself in her room and cried while her sister and mother went to the ball. Suddenly, her Faerie Godmother appeared. She teleported her just outside of her house. She created a beautiful boat by enlarging a banana from her house and carving out the interior. This was later known as the ‘banana boat’ (People later tried replicating it, but all attempts failed) She turned two seahorses into horses of the sea. Finally, she turned a fish into a coachman. (P.S. This was a river city, like venice. Also, the journey was lengthened because she bought cookies on the way. Cookies were not allowed in the ball, thus she had to eat them all) After eating the cookiesx she found out that her faerie godmother had changed her appearance. As she left for the ball, her faerie godmother told Cinderella to leave as the clock strikes 12, or the prince would know how she really looked like. At the ball, the prince spotted her and was charmed by her looks. He requested that she dance with him, in which she agreed. They danced and danced and soon the clock striked 12. Upon hearing the bell, she ran off, without even a proper goodbye, leaving nothing of her trace but a single glass slipper. She hurriedly swam back to her house. The next day, the prince, determined to find his first love, set out to find the person whom he had dance with the previous night. He eventually reached Cinderella’s house. She recognised him, but as she knew that she had changed back to her original looks, the prince wouldn't know she was her. She hence locked herself in her room and cried. The prince fitted the glass slipper onto her sister’s. It was a perfect match! He brought her back to his palace and started the preparations for the wedding, leaving our dear Cinderella behind. However, as the wedding day drew nearer, he started to notice something was amiss...
(To be continued)