BY CHESSIE FERRY AND JANE SCARBOUOUGH

Once apon a time, there was a princess called Ella. She lived in a pink and purple castle with a beutiful garden. She lived with her Mummy and Daddy. Ella was born on March 15 1981. In 1991 when Ella was 10 her Mummy died, so her Daddy had to go away to find a new wife.

"Daddy, why do you have to find a new wife?" questioned Ella. "Wern't we coping alright with just you and me in the familly?"

"I thought you and I might want to be a complete familly." said her Dad "Won't that be nice?"

"Not as nice as having my own Mummy. But it's worth a try."

Now, despite being a royal familly, they wern't bossing everyone about, wanting all the most expensive, precious things they could possably have. In fact the most precious thing in their life was their faith. They were Christians and every night before she went to bed, Ella would pray that whoever her Dad chose to be his wife would be a Christian. Unfortainatly, the woman her Daddy chose wasn't a Christain at all.

"Daddy!!" Ella cried in shock and disbelief. "You know that the Bible says 'Do not be unevenly yoked!!'

"I'm sorry." said her Dad. " I couldn't help it. "She just looked so beautiful!! She looks just like you and her voice is so calming. She's got a beautiful singing voice just like you and she's given you a bonus of 3 older sisters. Jasmine who's 14, Jodie who's 16 and Gemma who's 18. I thought that would be nice for you because then they can look after you."

"No excuse for that sort of behaviour!!!!"" she shouted. And she stormed up to her room, and cried.

As if that wasn't enough her Step-Mum and her Step-Sisters expected and forced Ella to do all their chores.8.30 - 6.00. That's from when her Daddy left home to when her Daddy came home. Ella didn't have a Fairy-Godmother. But she DID have God and every day and every night she prayed that her Step-Mum would become a Christian.

"Ella, we've told you time and time again that we DO NOT want the Bible read to us!! And we don't want YOU trying to convert us either!!"

Soon it was Christmas. Ella's Step-Mum, Jasmine, Jodie and Gemma had been abusing her and lying about her that year and they didn't even give her Christmas presents, not even a card, not even one saying:

To Ella

MERRY CHRISTMAS

From

Mum, Jasmine, Jodie and Gemma

Dispite this and dispite them not wanting to know about Jesus, Ella gave them a card saying:

and for presents she bought Jasmine a pink stress ball with a smiley face on it saying "Smile! Jesus loves you!" She bought Jodie a book called "You matter" Gemma a Gideons Bible and her step-Mum a propper bible.

From that day on, they all read the books and whenever Jasmine felt stessed she got our her stress ball and said to herself "Smile! Jesus loves you!" and they always listened to Ella and her Dad when they told them about Jesus!! Gradually they became Christians!!

And they all lived happilly ever after!

THE END