• "AAH!!" shouted 12 year old Ellette Marionette as she slipped in a puddle of water. "Ow~....stupid brother...". Ellette slowly got up on her feet and whimpered, "I think i just cracked my back...". Suddenly someone pushed Ellette on the back and she fell face down. "HA! You also broke your face!" shouted a voice behind her. Ellette looked to where the voice came from. It was, of course, her stepbrother Joshua who is 11 years old. "Why can't you pick on Hannah, she looks like shes having a great time, why don't you ruin her day?!" said Ellette. "Because your my stepsister of course. Hannah is a blood related sister, unlike you!" Joshua remarked as he stuck out his tongue and left Ellette all alone.
    Ellette stopped speaking as she silently thought about how her dearest mother was hit by a speeding motorcycle one night in a gloomy rainy Sunday. The driver probably couldn't see in all that rain. Ellette thought she was the most miserable girl in the world to have a mother who died an unfortunate death. Not very long after her mother had died, Ellette's father, Curtis Marionette, dated a thin and beautiful super model who coincidentally met her father in a laundromat. At first Ellette thought it was fishy for her father to meet a super model in a cheap laundromat.
    Ellette stood back up and sighed, "I just KNOW there is something fishy about this woman, i mean, what kind of "super model" would go to a laundromat in a boring neighborhood?" she whispered quietly to herself. She skipped back to her room and glanced at her calender. "In two days its Christmas...the day of mother's birthday." Ellette said sadly. Her green eyes, the color of watermelons, slowly were filled with clear tears.....