(Chapter 2) - Cinderella

1.2 Cinderella

“Where are we?” said Luna.
“I don’t know, we’re still in the forest. I think.” answered Jack.
“No. I think we’re in a different kind of forest. Look around you. Where’s the rock? Or worse, where’s the book?” Luna’s face was showing an expression that she’s actually freaking out.
“Did you hear that?” said Jack.
“Yes. Sounds like someone was shouting madly. Obviously.” Jack and Luna went to find the source from where the sound came. There was a river, they came to a stop and saw a small cottage with little chimney across the river. There were four women outside the cottage; one of the women was kneeling holding a wooden bucket filled with water. The other three women were shouting and cursing to the unfortunate young woman on the ground.
“You filthy, lazy, unworthy slut! What took you so long to bring in the water for me?! I have a function to attend to and you’re wasting my time doing one job slowly!” Said the woman in a yellow dress. She looked a little bit older, the lines on her face and her graying hair showed that she’s probably in her late forty’s.
“I’m sorry Lady Mitzell, I was doing three works at the same time.” answered the poor young lady. Her face was dirty from the black ashes and she looked really tired, maybe from doing a lot of house chores.
“No excuses! You’re just lazy! And you haven’t iron my red dress yet! How am I going to see the royals, with me using the same dress as yesterday?!” The girl in the green dress hitting the poor lady on the head several times with her right hand.
“Enough Gazelle! Just use this dress, we don’t have much time left.” said Lady Mitzell.
“Mother! She hasn’t done the breakfast yet! I am really hungry!” said the girl in a purple dress.
“We will eat later there at the royals Dazelle sweetheart. Am sure the food there is so much better than her cooking. And for you Cinder, I want everything is done by the time I come home, understood?” said Lady Mitzell.
“Yes, Lady Mitzell.” replied the girl.
“Oh, also as punishment. Do not eat your lunch. I will know if you did.” The poor young lady was only nodding and stayed in the same position until the three women left by the carriage they rode on. The unfortunate girl then broke up and sobbing sadly.
“Oh father, why did you have to go too? I missed you.” From across the river, Jack and Luna was hiding, watching from behind a big tree and were very irritated to see the poor lady was bullied.
“Seriously Jack, if you didn’t hold me back I would have run over there and defend her!”
“Seriously Luna, you need think before you act. You’d have make things worse.” Luna was only rolling her eyes out from Jack’s glare and folded her arms on her chest. Not far from where they were, there was a little bridge built to cross the river. They decided to go there and to meet the poor lady.
“Hello there.” said Luna. The poor lady was startled and stopped crying.
“Who are you? What do you want?”
“I’m Luna and this is my brother Jack. We saw what they did to you and we come here to help.” Jack pulled Luna’s arm and she was taking a step back.
“What do you mean by ‘help’?” said Jack.
“Well obviously we need to help her to do all the work before those witches comeback. Come on Jack, this is probably what we need to do. We need to help her.” After thinking for a moment Jack agreed.
“Thank you for your generous offer. I am really grateful someone would come to my rescue.”
“No problem. We will do it immediately together!” answered Luna.
“Wonderful!” replied the poor lady.
“By the way, may I know your name?” asked Luna.
“Oh I’m Cinder, Cinderella.” Jack and Luna was frozen still, jaw dropped mouth opened, amazed by the surprise they saw in front of their faces.