Once Upon Another Time

Well hello, I’m the Queen…actually not; the past Queen Grimhilde. You should know my name for how good my time in the crown was, or maybe because of that dumb kid named Snow White and the story she invented about her life, which, in fact, ended up ruining MY entire life. And she didn’t even say half of the things that happened! In reality, she lied about numerous things. But what can I do, right? Would you believe me if I tell you something different? NO! Clearly not because who would even listen to the supposed witch of the story? If I am the bad one in here, right? Yeah, sadly everyone will listen to a little 13-year-old girl that claims to be the victim. Like… people, wake up! There is always a second side of every story, but noooo, you will only care about the first spread and most famous one. I haven’t even had the chance to tell my side!! So listen to me and don’t you dare to interrupt or judge me before I end my story.

So, this little girl is my ex-husband´s daughter, the dead king Philip. But before I give you every detail, I will explain really briefly the story that snow white spread. Basically, she says that everything started when her dad died. Of course, me, being her step mom, took her as my own and we were living in the castle. I was ruling and clearly didn’t have much free time! Meaning that I couldn’t have much quality time with my stepdaughter. She says that she had to do millions of chores and that she was cleaning and bla bla bla. That’s not true at all. Of course she had to do some chores in the house because that’s part of people´s life! She only did 3 or 4 things a day. She had to learn how to maintain herself. But anyways, for her, those were “too much” and she couldn’t do anything. One day, she met a prince but then he left. Then the worst part comes because she says that I sent a guard to kill her in the woods! I’m not capable of killing an ant and you think I would kill her. Keep in mind that she was the only thing that I had left from my lovely Philip. Then, she met the seven Dwarfs and stayed with them. And then all the talking with the animals, living in there with her new friends, and then supposedly I appeared as an old woman and poisoned her with an apple and then the prince she met before kissed her to wake her up and the lived a happy ever after.

Now listen to what actually happened and my story.

Before I met Philip, I lived in a house where, if you weren’t pretty, you were literally sentenced to be a disaster in life. And sadly, I have a younger sister that is pretty. However, EVERYONE have said that I am the prettiest, not her, but my parents didn’t care and Rose was the perfect girl. Even with all that comparison, we loved each other and care about the other, we were sisters after all. Actually, she was the first person to know about my boyfriend of that time, Gabriel. But everything ended up really bad.

This boyfriend of mine, Gabriel, was 3 years older than me and we met at the store. We talked a lot and ended up falling in love with each other. I didn’t tell my parents in the beginning because if it didn’t work out, then they would have been more disappointed and repeating it to me for the rest of my life. So, when we were like 3 months together, I brought him home to have dinner and everything went perfect. We were pretty serious and we wanted to get married, or that’s what I thought. After 2 years of relationship, I ended up pregnant at 15 and had my beautiful daughter Maggie. Oh, I forgot to mention that Gabriel was rich and perfect as my parents wanted, so everything was perfect. Until, on Maggie’s 3 birthday, I found Rose and Gabriel kissing in the back of the house. I was broken and speechless. They didn’t notice me in there, but I let them know I knew.

After the party, I went home before Gabriel and threw all of his cloth and stuff he had to the street and threw him out of my house. I know he had paid for our home, but I didn’t care and was not going anywhere. When he arrived, he was pissed and confused but, after I told him what I saw, he was speechless. He didn’t know what to say but couldn’t denied it either. I saw what I was not supposed to see and his perfect plan was ruined.

After that, I went to my parents’ house were Maggie and Rose were, and started yelling at her. She is my sister! The only person that was there for me and that listened to me! I did everything I could to be with her every time she needed someone and that was how she was grateful? I was not letting that happen. So when I saw her I punched her in the face.

She was alone in her room so no one saw as but I was far from being done. I started screaming and shouting and was historically at her. After a bit, my parents came, and I told them what had happened. And guess what, they LAUGHTED at me. They couldn’t stop and then told me that they knew. They told my sister to at least try and take MY boyfriend so that she had the perfect life I was having. And that was the last time I spoke to any of them.

After that event, Rose came to my house multiple times to check on me and to try to talk to me but of course I was not going to talk to that girl. And she didn’t stop until I moved out to Philip’s house actually.

And if you thought that was the worst, you are wrong. My beautiful daughter Maggie was literally perfect. And my parents even told some people that she was the perfect of the perfect and better than Rose, which made me love her even more. But, when she was 6, his stupid dad wanted to go with her to have a beautiful day outside with his now wife Rose, and dumb me I let him. He came back without her, and told me that Maggie felt from a tree and was dead. Can you imagine how was I feeling? I didn’t have a reason to be here anymore. Everything that I loved was gone.

I closed myself in my house for years. Rose came everyday crying and begging me to forgive her. One day I snapped and told her that I was NEVER going to forgive that she took from me everything I had, she let my daughter die and took the love of my life. But she never gave up and continued going there.

3 years later I was in a relationship with this guy named Philip, the king. His wife died a year before and was searching for a new one, and lucky him, I wanted a new boyfriend. So, when we were 1 year together, I moved out with him to the castle and spent a lot of time with his daughter Snow White. But, I hadn’t passed my obsession of been the prettiest person so that everyone could shut their mouths and see that I was the perfect girl, not my sister. I would have let Maggie be the prettiest, but she was gone.

Then Philip died, and I was left with Snow White. So I was in charge of the kingdom and this child, a part of maintaining the castle. It was more than what I thought it would be but I could handle it.

However, there was a little problem, someone was starting to become more beautiful than me. You may wonder how do I know that, but most of you should know the answer too. My magical mirror.

I found it when Maggie died, it was standing there by the side of my daughters bed. When I went to see myself in it, another creature´s face appeared. I jumped and was starting to run, but there was a voice that told me that it wasn’t harmful and was there to help me. So a listened to it and looked at it closely. Then he told me what I wanted to know, and the first thing that came to my mind was who is the most beautiful person in the world, and obviously, he said me. It became an obsession to me knowing that I was the prettiest person but couldn’t tell anyone about the mirror because think about it, no one would have believed me. But well, I took it with me and now that I was the queen, the mirror would refer to me as his queen.

Maybe you are thinking, who in the world can be prettier than me? I thought the same people, I thought the same. But sadly the answer was Snow White. Of course I was mad and heartbroken, but I wasn’t thinking of doing anything. But, one day, Snow White broke a really expensive jar. And that was the thing that made me explode. She had already been disrespectful to me, broken multiple things, took my cloth without asking and cut it, and multiple other things. So her broking my most important jar was the end for me.

But I didn’t send anyone to kill anyone. The guard was supposed to go into the woods and stay with her for a week without new cloth or something so that she learned the lesson that she had to earn her stuff. But it looks like she didn’t get it and thought he was going to kill her and scape.

Could you imagine how stressed and scared I was? She was my daughter now, the only person I had left and was lost in the forest. I spent days looking for her and didn’t find her. Of course I had to use some of the tricks that the mirror had given me over the years so that no one would recognize me and I could be everywhere. So I looked like an old woman, but still looked like myself.

And guess what, I FOUND HER. I was beyond grateful for being able to take her back home but she wouldn’t come with me. So I had a plan B. It wasn’t a poison; it was a sleep medicine so that I could carry her home without problems. But, those stupid birds and animals came after me and I had to leave Snow in that weird house. I was coming for her later. However, when I came back, she was gone. So I started walking around to find her, and that’s when the dwarfs found me and started chasing me. I had to jump off a cliff so that they wouldn’t kill me, but I used a magic trick so that the landing wouldn’t hurt.

After that, I had to stay undercover because I knew they wouldn’t believe me. So that’s what I did. I stayed in a house I built for 20 years. But those dwarfs found me and took me to the police. Which actually was more than hurtful for me, like, I was the queen and that was how they were grateful? Thank you.

Anyways, that’s how I ended up in here. I will be sentenced to death for a crime that I didn’t even commit. This is my last chance to talk with somebody because I will be killed tomorrow morning in front of all the people that live in my kingdom. I really hope that Snow White continues to have a good life and that they live their “happily ever after”. And I will be under the ground baby so be careful were you put your feet, because I will not assure you that you will be able to walk after stepping in the wrong place.

Kisses for everyone and I hope you are all happy. I’m out.