" I woke up the other night from a dream where I was flying like a bird. I don't remember how. I felt free. That is what I was thinking. That it was so easy and painless. I was graceful and I looked so seamless. Like a professional ballet dancer. When I woke up I felt refreshed as though I had emerged from a deep sleep after practically losing my mind to the mad states of insomnia. I won my battles and I was never to be a passenger in the arms of insanity again. The truth will set you free. " - JS
Mirror Slippers
By Jessica Singleton
Anne was sitting on her bed with crayons spilled all around her. She was coloring in a coloring book. Her cat was sleeping by her side. Her mother was cleaning the kitchen. Anne wanted a cookie. Her mother had a beautiful glass cookie jar that sat on the kitchen counter. The cookie jar was filled with sugar cookies and homemade gumdrops.
So Anne went into the kitchen. Anne's mother was in the other room on the telephone. The cookie jar glistened like frosted crystal in the twinkling sunlight. Anne climbed into a chair and she reached into the cookie jar. Somehow she accidentally knocked the cookie jar off the counter. The cookie jar shattered into a lot of pieces when it clanked to the floor. Anne's mother came into the kitchen.
Anne what are you doing?
I'm sorry mommy, I broke the jar.
Oh Anne , let me help you away from there so you don't get cut.
I'm sorry.
Well it's just cookies but they are covered in glass and now you can't eat them. We can make new cookies that are not dirty. Cookies don't matter. You matter. But next time ask. I made those cookies for you. No one else is going to eat your cookies. You don't have to be in such a hurry. But Anne, you have to be careful with things that you care about. Because if you break anything in life that you care about, then it's destroyed and broken. Once you break something, you lose it forever.
Yes I understand now.
Anne's mother took her back to her coloring books and crayons.
2
Anne woke up from a bad dream again. She kept having the same dream. In her dream she was standing in a skyscraper building, staring out a mirrored window. She was waiting on something she did not understand. When she saw her mother in the parking lot below. Anne's mother could not see her standing up in the window. Anne looked over and she saw an airplane with something wrong with it. The plan was going to crash and it looked like it would hit her mother. The frantic of paranoia slammed hard and made her throat feel tight and dry. Anne started to wave and scream for her mothers attention but her mother couldn't see Anne's warning. Nor could Anne's mother hear her. The moment of death is without a doubt breathless and it is in the blink of an eye . Anne had to watch her mother die. The dream sadly for Anne was a memory.
Something Anne will never forget.
Not for the rest of her life.
Anne lived with her father and her stepmother. Her father remarried about five years after her mother died. Her stepmother was a snobby uptight perfectionist. Her father was always away working and did not care what happened in his own house as long as it did not interfere with his schedule. Anne's father had a lot of money due to lawsuits that he won. Anne's father had a net worth of 900 billion dollars a year for a take home income.
Anne had a jewelry box that sat on her Chester drawers. The jewelry box was white with tiny kittens on it. It had a dancing ballerina inside. Most of Anne's jewelry was plastic but she did own a rare locket. The locket had been in Anne's mothers side of her family for a long time. The name on the locket was Nouveau. Anne had her own room. Her five step sisters shared a room upstairs. Her step sisters had nothing to do with Anne. They were jealous of her. They hated her because they were pitiful and obnoxious. One sister was ugly and stupid. One of her stepsisters was thin and looked like a flag should hang from her ears. The other sister acted like a human mirror. She was more like the family dog. Always trying to mimic something in hopes to pull some fleet of magic. But her sister was not magical and you can never be two different people at one time. So her tricks never worked.
Her stepmother would watch how cruel her daughters were to Anne and she would laugh and she would look away. Anne's father was never home enough to notice. Then one day Anne came home and her stepmother told her bad news. Anne's father died of health problems. Anne's mother tried to rob Anne of her inheritance. Anne's mother allowed her other daughters to steal to. Anne was eventually turned into a maid in her own house. Her stepmother would make comments about how much everyone did for Anne. How she was a burden on everyone. It was a job to take care of a person that is not related to you. And they could all just throw Anne into state care. Then she would be poorly threaded until they threw her out on the street. Sometimes her stepmother would say weird things to her. She would say that if Anne ever were handed into state care that Anne would probably die.
Anne stopped speaking until she said yes or no. No one had much to do with her anyway. Not until they yelled for Anne to jump into their approval. Anne hurried to get her chores done. Then she would run to her room and read books. She would listen to music. Her favorite band was Tool and Marilyn Manson. Anne's favorite movie was 1408. Anne's favorite color was purple. And her favorite author was Margery Williams and Anne O'Brian.
Anne had a poster above her bed of Escher 's hand with the glass ball.
She had a stuffed teddy bear and a stuffed rabbit on her bookshelf. Her bookshelf was over loaded with novels.
3
Anne was walking down the hallway towards the lunch room. Her dumb sisters were talking loudly again with their friends. Sometimes Anne thought that her sisters talked so loudly for everyone else's benefit rather than their own. Which would explain their empty conversations. They just wanted to be seen.
Anne had two friends.
They thank goodness were nothing like her sisters. There was a boy that everyone thought was cute. He was tall with dark hair. His name was William. Anne thought that he was cute too but she did not have anything to say to him. Besides she wanted to work hard so she could get a scholarship to go to college. Even though her father had money. Anne was not going to bet on her stepmother.
When everyone was seated in the lunch room eating, Anne had to get up to get a fork. Anne's dumb sister tripped her so she would fall. But Anne accidentally bumped into William. William hardly spilled a tiny splash of water on a girl he liked named cheo. Cheo was upset. Although cheo was a moron who would probably be upset if the wind blew. William spun around and he yelled loudly enough to draw everyone's attention to Anne.
What is wrong with you? You like hitting people? You practically injured cheo and you almost destroyed my lunch. Other people have to eat. You are horrible to everyone and you have upset me and cheo. I think you owe us an apology.
Anne stood up and she just walked out and she went to the bathroom.
There was a dance that fall. It was for everyone who was in the tenth grade. Anne had money but her stepmother never gave it to her. Her stepmother took her daughters out to buy them experience dresses for a dance that would be pointless for them to attend. No one wanted them and they were just going to stand around talking loudly in hopes anyone would find them important.
Anne stayed home with a Batchman book and a Diet Pepsi.
Anne's friend Heather called her from her cellphone. She told her something that made Anne laugh.
You should have come to the dance. Oh you really missed out. You know how your sisters are always talking for other people to hear it?
Yeah.
Like it's just Ass kissing and bs so they can fit in?
Yeah.
Well they were standing to close to the stage in the gymnasium. And they were about to announce something on the microphone.
Jimmy shell was holding the mic and Carlo Michael is bossing him around. I don't understand that part but jimmy is holding the microphone and he puts his arms down while he leans over to talk to Carlo. The mic was by your sisters. They were finally talking low. I guess they tell the truth when they don't think people can hear them. Well the whole school heard their real truth. Everyone was laughing at them. They really are a load.
Thank you.
4
When Anne graduated high school she lived on her own. It did not take long for the truth to catch-up with her stepmother and stepsisters.
Anne was looked up by a lawyer. Anne was the heir to a throne and a wealthy woman. Her stepsisters and stepmother assumed they would steal Anne's birth right again. No chance of that. All the royalty was on her biological mothers side of her family. The truth came out about her childhood and how her stepmother handled her fathers money. The bank was required to give Anne back one hundred percent of the stolen money. No one could steal from Anne again. Anne's father left her 300 trillion dollars. Then on her mothers side Anne was the only living heir to a French and then an English throne. The French money that Anne received was well over 100 trillion dollars. Anne's best gift was receiving redemption and freedom from being abused and humiliated constantly by the idiot collection around her. Anne lost a lot of weight. She got her life back. No one killed Anne or lied later on about her birth right just to rob her again .
Anne met a man who did not yell at her and she lived happily ever after.
Her stepmother and stepsisters went to jail for money laundering and identity theft.
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