Ethanerella.... not Cinderella.

Short Story
By Heather Whitman

Once upon a time there was this boy whose name was Ethan. He lives with his evil stepfather whose name was Pete and his evil stepbrothers Brock and Trent. They are jocks and jerks. His evil stepfather makes him do very hard yard work like taking care of the lawn and making the grass stay green everyday, and mowing it every other day. He has other chores like painting the house so it stays white, washing the dishes, cleaning the house every day, taking out the trash, cleaning the gutters, under the stoves and couches, cleaning the very dirty bathrooms (which haven’t been cleaned in a long time and takes a long time to clean) so he cleans it everyday till it is spick and span, cleaning really greasy stuff like car parts, around the kitchen, chopping wood, and whatever else.

When he’s working in the yard the only friends that he has are the animals that come to see him like birds, sometimes rabbits, all the little crawly things, dogs, and cats. Ethan goes to a high school in New York City. He has no friends at the high school and no one talks with him maybe except a few students that ask him for help with home work, like papers, math, and other subjects they need help with. After completing 11th grade, he got tired of what he had to do at home and started to get depressed.

The way he finds out that he has a genie is he goes up in the attic and finds some stuff that was never given to him. So when he goes though them, he finds a really old Coca Cola glass bottle that has writing on it. He tries to make out what it says and when he can’t read what it says the genie comes out. He asks the genie how he got there. The genie says that Ethan was trying to read something he couldn’t read and he comes out. The genie tells him that he has ten wishes to make. But he also has to use them wisely. When he meets his genie he grants Ethan more then three wishes. Ethan asks for help to go to the prom but so that no one will know who he is. The genie makes him a special mask to cover his face.

Luckily the theme of the prom was a costume ball. He asks to go to the prom with the head cheerleader Becca and she says no. Ethan is really sad but he goes anyways. The Genie says that he only has a limited time to be at the prom and get back home. He has to get home was by twelve midnight or else it will all fall apart.

Now in his new Genie wishes cool tuxedo he impresses Becca and she says she will dance with him, not knowing whom it really is. When he is dancing with her he is having so much fun that he forgets about the time.

Then he notices the clock and says, “I have to go!”

Becca was pretty up set that he had to go so soon. After he left the head cheerleader and other people helped clean up the next day.

The next day Becca is on clean up duty and she finds a cool pimping hat that the mysterious dance partner had left behind. The next Monday at school she goes though every one of the guys in the school and checks if it fit any one of them and it doesn’t fit anyone. After school while getting math help from Ethan she realizes she never tried the hat on him. When she puts the pimpin’ hat on Ethan, she realizes that she was with him at the prom. She never did notice him and she really liked him now because it was him the whole time.

After she finds out that it was he, she apologizes to him. He says that was okay and that it was okay for them to start a relationship. When he tells his evil stepfather that he has told the authorities what he has been making him do the father, they make the evil stepfather and evil stepbrother go to a place that teaches them to be better parents and brothers. They go to the same college after high school and live HAPPILY EVER AFTER!!!