🍩➢ continued from fromglassandashes :
Ella’s dress was getting dirty but in that moment as like others in her passed she didn’t care. Nothing in that moment mattered but her parents. She till didnt understand not truley how her parents even died. It didn’t make sense.. or maybe that part of her still didn’t want to accept it. She didn’t think she ever would. How can someone accept it? Ella had overcome many strife in her life and to anyone it might seem perfect but nothing was perfect but she knew she always had a lot to be thankful for especially in a hard time like this.
Wiping her eyes she looked to her left to see a familiar face. “Anastasia.” She called out standing up carefully and brushing her hands together to wipe the dirt off and the flower petal that fell off and cling to her hand. “Are you alright?” She asked softly making her way over stepping cautiously and being mindful of the other graves. Despite their rocky history Ella still cared for her step sister and always would.
The Tremaine house, ever since Sir Francis’ untimely death, had always been rocky. Without him, Lady Tremaine had become something entirely different than what Anastasia and Drizella had been used to.
And after Cinderella’s departure from the house, she had forced her two daughters to do most of the chores and still expected them to marry wealthy Lords.
Anastasia, perhaps not wanting to provoke her mother’s fury, rarely spoke her mind. Perhaps also because she rarely thought on her own, after all. Her destiny had always been in her mother’s hands. But upon being told at tea time that they were to receive the visit of yet another pair of suitors, Anastasia just felt... completely defeated.
Because no matter how hard she tried, none of these suitors ever came back.
To Lady Tremaine’s follow-up letter, the men all replied something along the lines of the Tremaine girls simply being too plain for their tastes, or they didn’t think they could hear themselves think if they kept hearing Drizella play the harpsichord in the background or—
Bottom line? Anastasia had ran. For she was exhausted of being rejected. And she had to come to the conclusion that...
“I’ll never find True Love, will I?”
Those were the exact words that she had pronounced, as her entire form was hunched over the stone of her father’s grave. Oh, how she missed him...
There were tears. And these were the tears of a girl that had held in her grief for far too long, all for the sake of not disappointing her mother in public. But she was alone now, wasn’t she...? The cemetery was a safe place in a way... right...?
Anastasia... Are you alright?
That voice. She recognized it. It was way too perfect. Way too graceful to belong to anybody other than... Cinderella.
Before she turned her head to face the blonde, Anastasia sniffled, and tried her best to dry her tears. Then, she looked over at the kingdom’s new princess. She was still so... beautiful. And... and everything the Tremaine girl was not.
Anastasia could already feel her jealousy r i s i n g.
“What do you want?” the redhead asked.