1 Awakened Inside the Novel

"Erella! Erella! Wake up!" Sandy faintly heard a lady angrily calling for someone. Her eyebrows started to furrow while her eyes were closed. She wanted to open her eyes, but they felt heavy. Her body, not just her eyes, felt heavy too. Maybe because her muscles all over her body felt sore.

'Arghhhhh...Am I still alive? Hmmmmmm... But that would be impossible. For sure, the mortician couldn't recognize my body because it would already be in tiny pieces.' Sandy thought.

She knew that she had already died because of the gas tank explosion that happened in her home. So she was baffled as to why she could still feel her body aching.

"DAMMIT! I said, wake up!" The lady shouted angrily. Sandy felt irritated at the lady's voice. She turned her sick body to the right side so she couldn't hear the irritating voice of that lady. But when she was about to turn, suddenly a bucket of water poured onto her face, and it made her choke painfully. She quickly sat on the bed.

COUGH! COUGH! COUGH! She painfully covered her mouth and nose while coughing. Then she hardly opened her eyes to see who did it to her. But she couldn't see her very well; only her bright orange curly hair was visible to her eyes.

"Why is my dress still not yet ironed? Also, my shoes are still not yet polished. You know that I need to go to Lady Ashley's home to have a tea party. Argh!" The lady exclaimed angrily.

"DAMN IT! You pour water on my face just to tell me those absurd things! Who the hell are you to order me around?" Sandy wanted to yell at the lady, but only a murmur came out of her mouth while glaring at the lady in front of her. The lady flinched and stepped backward. She didn't expect that Sandy would look at her like that.

"Who the heck are you?!" Sandy asked crossly. Suddenly, the lady gasped, and her eyes widened.

"Y----Y--YOU! How dare you talk to me like that!"The lady shouted. Sandy wanted to fight back, but her body felt weak. And her head hurts like it was about to break. She touched her forehead. Her forehead was burning like hell! She realized she had a fever. She looked at the lady once again, but the lady became more blurry in her eyes. Then, all of a sudden, she fell back onto the bed and lost consciousness.

Three days later...

"Hmmmmmm." Sandy groaned when she felt someone putting a wet towel on her forehead.

"Dear! Dear! I think Erella is waking up!" Sandy heard a tiny, squeaky voice next to her ear. Then another one spoke.

"Thank goodness! Her fever is gone."

"Curses to those three ugly women! Because of them, our dear Erella got sick!" Another tiny, meaty-throated voice was heard. She felt confused once more.

'Who's Erella? Who are these people talking next to my ear?' She thought, then slowly opened her eyes to see them. But when she opened her eyes, she couldn't see anyone inside the room.

"Is it just a dream?" She whispered weakly.

"OH YES! Thank heavens! Our dear Erella just woke up!" A happy, tiny, squeaky voice was heard again next to her ear. And she felt something jumping on the bed. She turned to her left side to look at who they were. She gasped, and her eyes and nose went wide.

"R----R----RATS!!!!!! KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" She yelped. Then jumped out from the bed. She was very scared of rats.

"Excuse me, young lady, we are not rats! We are mice." The fat mouse corrected her with his tiny little hands on its waist while tilting its head up.

"What's wrong, dear? It seems that this is the first time you see us." Another mouse, who was wearing a yellow dress, talked to her. The thin mouse that was next to her agreed.

'WHAAAAATTTTT?????!!!!!!! Mice can talk?' She was flabbergasted. She wanted to run away, but suddenly, memories flowed into her head like a river stream.

"Arghhhh!" She groaned while holding her head. The three mice looked at her worriedly and asked in unison.

"Are you ok, dear?" The mouse with a yellow dress asked.

"Are you still sick, Erella?" The fat mouse asked.

"Is your head aching?" The thin mouse asked.

Sandy didn't answer them. Her attention was on the memories that flowed through her head.

'What the heck?! I really died on the earth! And now I am reincarnated inside the novel that I am not fond of watching or listening to?' Sandy was really stupefied. She couldn't believe that the famous fairytale story that every kid in their neighborhood loved to hear and watch when she was young had become the place where she reincarnated now. And worst of all, she became the heroine, who is Cinderella. This story is about a kindhearted girl whose father and stepmother got married and became a family of five with her two stepsisters. The poor girl was cast out by her stepmother and stepsisters when her father died. Then they made her work all day long so they could torment her.

And this heroine never fights back against those three bitches! Sandy really hated it because she was the kind of person who always fights back if someone wants to bully her.

"DARN IT!!!! WHY HER?! It's better to be a villainess than the heroine!" She exclaimed disappointingly.