A/N: Hello! :] This is Terru! How is everyone doing? Anyway, I was inspired by a buddy here in FanFiction by her great fanfics! Check out Lingeron's profile and if u're La Corda D'Oro fans, u'll LOVE her stories. I'm sorry the first chapter is short. Also this will have few chapters but not that many, and it's for TouyaRima24! Belated, as in REALLY belated Happy Birthday! I'm sorry if it came out not that good T^T but I did my best! Also not beta-ed.. Please enjoy reading!^^ and anyone is welcome to leave a review :D (P.S. I'm sorry if my sense of humor is outdated.. T^T)

Chapter 1:

Once a princess, now a maid

Once upon a time, there was a story of a young rich lady who lost her father at the age of seven. Her stepmother who her father remarried took her in but she wasn't nice to her at all, together with her two daughters, they only treated her as their maid. And from the rich young girl she was, turned into a poor maid serving her stepmother and two stepsisters. But she was a very sweet and loving lady that she always forgave them no matter what they did to her. Then one day, a ball party was announced all over the whole city, and every maiden were invited.

She dearly wished to go but her evil stepmother and stepsisters wouldn't let her, and so she was left all alone that night of the party. Suddenly, a fairy godmother appeared before her and granted her wish to go to the ball. But there was a time limit, she must leave the party before twelve o'clock midnight because the magic will disappear and she'd be back to the poor young lady she was.

When she met the prince, they both fell in love at first sight. They wanted the time to stop for only both of them but it flew fast instead. She had to leave the prince and so she ran away from the ball party as fast as she could.

Several days had passed and a new announcement was declared. They were looking for the maiden whom the prince met and fell in love with, that night.

Then he found her. With the help of the crystal glass shoe that only matched her small foot's size. And they lived happily ever after.

~ X ~ X ~ X ~

Applying this magical story in modern life, a sixteen-year-old, orange haired girl named Rima Touya had a very similar situation as Cinderella had. That, except for her attitude which was far from Cinderella's loving personality and the ending which she didn't know about yet... And here she was, innocently scrubbing the floor of her own house, until it would become clean and shiny as ever. She knew that her stepmother and two stepsisters would start nagging again if they didn't see the tiles get very shiny like a jewel stone. Ahh how she really wanted to rest and eat her favorite snack, pocky.

Scrubbing the floor harder, Rima imagined that boxes of pockies were waiting for her in her room. Wait for me, pocky, I'll be finished here soon. Thinking that after few more scrubs, she'd be done, suddenly a cat of mixed black, white, orange, brown and ..pink? color ran past the floor with a mud in its paws. Rima widened her eyes and glared at the cat. Wait, pink?

Scratch that.. ".. Ahh! You.. Stupid.. rainbow cat, wait!" Rima threw away the dirty towel she was just holding a while ago and ran after the cat. Why was it that everyone and almost everything in that house was evil? Her stepmother, two stepsisters, their cat perhaps, and then the furniture which had no cooperation whenever she cleaned them that after just one hour would be full of dirt again. Little did she know that it was her two stepsisters' schemes.

After moments of running after the cat, Rima found herself huffing out. She was so going to get that damn cat pay for what it did. But, she couldn't find the rainbow cat anywhere.

"Why is there a cat in here anyway?" Rima asked herself while looking around. Oh she's had enough. She would go scrub the floor again later, for now, she only wanted to get a taste of her pocky. After all, her stepmother and two stepsisters wouldn't be coming home soon. Or so she thought.

~ X ~ X ~ X ~

Arriving back at home, Rima's stepmother, Nanri opened the door to their castle-like house. Her two daughters; Hanari and Nanami following her. Normally, a maid slacking on her job would be the one to welcome their arrival but this time, not a slacking maid but an even worse welcome to them; a floor full of mud-steps of ..dog's prints? Cat's prints?

Nanri's face turned red in madness and exhaustion. There was only one person in her mind that time and she was absolutely going to double her jobs and give her a punishment she deserved.

"Riimaaaaaa!"

The way Nanri called Rima was creepy enough to make her choked on her snack. She coughed few times and covered her mouth with her palm. "Oh no, they came back earlier than I thought."

To be continued..

How was it everyone? I hope it was ok x] I swear, I had fun writing this fanfic with the fact that it's Shiki and Rima story XD Please let me know if u spot errors! ^^ I'd appreciate it a lot.

Well then, have a good day and good night! :D

~Terru