Violet Lockwood: A Short Story

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Violet Lockwood. She lived a life of sorrow and loss. When she was only a child her mother passed away from a terrible disease and not only a year later her father remarried to a horrific woman, who already had two children of her own. Her new stepmother, Esther, and her new stepsisters, Doris and Margot, treated her like she was their maid. When Esther and her daughters moved into Violets home, Esther made her move her room into the attic. They began to treat Violet like she was their maid, they made her clean the house, make their clothes, and even cook them food.

When Violet reached the age of eighteen, her father fell ill. He died only a few days later. He left everything he had to Esther and Esther took advantage of that fact, she made Violet work for anything and everything. Violet was only allowed out of the house to perform chores, she was only allowed to wear …show more content…
While she knew it was silly, Violet had to clean the cellar anyway as part of her chores. So she thought why not? She rummaged through all the boxes and found the one her mom was talking about in her dream. In it, there were many photos from Violets childhood, as well as stuff that used to be her mom’s. It took a while but she eventually found the ring and was awestruck by its beauty. Instantly she put on. An indescribable feeling came over her, like suddenly she could conquer anything.

She wondered what the ring could do. Violet remembered her mom told her to just believe, so that’s what she did. Nothing seemed to happen right away, slightly lowering Violets spirits about the “magic” of the ring. Though the ring didn’t seem to work it didn’t waver her feeling of power, that she could still manage to get to the ball, even though it was basically