Snow white retelling

 Once upon a time in a busy city on the top floor of an apartment building lived a husband and his wife. Their names were Jasper and Meredith. They longed to have a little baby girl. Every night Meredith would sit on the rocking chair by the windowsill watching the rain trickle down telling Jasper about how she would love her daughter to have the fairest white skin like the snow on the tops of houses, crimson red lips, and jet black hair. One afternoon Meredith gave birth to a little girl who was everything she had ever asked for and more. They decided to name her Ruby due to the astonishing colour of her lips. Ruby had a very fun life with her mum and dad. They always made the most of their tiny apartment and to them it was more than enough. Countless nights were spent pillow fighting, building blanket forts and toasting marshmallows by the fireplace whilst cuddled up on the sofa.. When Ruby turned five her mother unfortunately passed away. Their house grew very dark and the fun life and happiness was stolen in the blink of an eye. On Ruby’s thirteenth birthday her and her dad moved houses. As they were driving their car broke down in front of this extraordinary palace. Jasper bravely went and knocked on the door to ask for a place to stay for the night. A queen opened the door and let them inside. Ruby and her dad ended up overstaying their visit longer than they had intended as the queen fell in love with Jasper. Ruby’s dad decided to ask the queen to marry him as he could not afford to live without her hand in marriage and without some of her wealthy heritage for him and Ruby. Ruby’s stepmom nicknamed her Snow white.

The queen was very suspicious and quite an odd woman. She was crazily obsessed with herself and being the most beautiful woman in all the land. She owned a lot of pets but the weird part was that they all talked and were forced to praise her and remind her of her beauty every day. Ruby’s step mother also had this massive mirror that when you talked to it, it spoke back but it was cursed so it was incapable of lying. When the animal's admiration wasn’t enough for the queen she would go to the mirror and ask these exact words “mirror, mirror on the wall who’s the fairest of them all”. Everytime the mirror would reply “You are the fairest of the land my queen”. On Ruby’s sixteenth birthday the queen asked the same question to the mirror but this time the reply was different. “Ruby, Ruby is the most beautiful person in the land with pale skin, bright red lips and jet black hair”. The queen raged at the idea of this and jealousy boiled through her skin. The queen was furious and ordered her pet wolf to hunt down Snow white and kill her. One day when snow white was skipping around in the forest she was approached by a big angry looking wolf. In terror she stepped backwards tripping over a tree stump and falling backwards. The wolf pounced on her but after looking into her eyes he fell in love with Snow white and didn’t have the guts to kill her. So instead he introduced himself to her and warned her about the queen and what she had planned to do. The wolf’s name was Leo.

 Snow white ran deep into the forest until she got tired and realized that the sun was slowly setting so she decided to sit down. As she was sitting on a log catching her breath she noticed a cute little cottage surrounded by mushrooms and flowers and a tire swing. She saw a little man coming out of the house then another man followed after and another and another, each led out in a single file line following after the first. Snow white quickly hid behind the log and watched. In the end there were a total of seven tiny men. They all walked out into the woods humming and singing a song. She made sure that they were long gone and then came out from behind the log and decided to have a look around their house. She struggled a bit to get through the tiny door but managed to get herself through. She looks around the very cosy cottage and sees seven little doors each with a name engraved in it. Sleepy, sneezy, bashful, happy, grumpy, dopey, and doc who had the biggest bed so Snow white assumed he must've been the leader. There was this massive rocking chair beside the window and Snow white sat in it and dozed off in a dream about her mother and father and everything they used to do together as a family. Suddenly seven little men barged through the door one after the other. They noticed Snow white and were amazed by the beautiful young lady asleep in their chair. When she awoke she explained everything to them and they felt sorry for the young girl and they kindly offered her a place to stay in their small cottage. She happily accepted and made a promise to them that she would always help out with the chores and work. The first chore they did was make an extension on the door so she could come and go more easily through the house. 

Many years later up in the castle the queen once again said her famous saying to the magic mirror but in her shock the mirror replied with “ You are not the fairest in the land my queen, a beautiful young lady by the name of Ruby, holds the title”. The queen was astonished and went pale in the face. She had been betrayed and lied to by her own animal. When she went to see the wolf he was happy to hear she was still alive and well but he was sentenced with a punishment of being human. The queen needed to find Snow white so she could kill her herself but she didn’t know how she ever would. She went into Snow’s old room and grabbed a handkerchief from her wardrobe and ordered the wolf to sniff it and track her scent through the forest. When they arrived at the cottage the queen transformed herself and Leo into disguise. She then had to teach Leo how to walk probably. After they were all properly disguised they went and knocked on the door. Little did the queen know that Leo had a different plan. When Snow white opened the door the queen tried so desperately to stay in character and not let the jealousy show through. The queen pretended to be Leo’s wife and told Snow that they were bakers and wanted to bring her some of their famous cupcakes. Snow white didn’t want to be rude so she took a cupcake from the plate. Little did she know the queen had poisoned half the batch. As Snow white took a bite of the cupcake she dropped to the floor. Leo suggested that as a celebration of her death him and the queen shall eat the remaining cupcakes. The queen was so happy that she forgot all about the poisonous cupcakes and she ate it cluelessly and then she too dropped to the floor. 

Leo; still being human, walked over to Snow whites lifeless body and he and the seven men lifted her up and placed her into a beautiful clear casket filled with flowers and a silk pillow. As they put her casket down in the forest Leo bent down and kissed her softly on the lips and suddenly she was revived and everyone was happy. Leo was so confused but then remembered that only half the batter of cupcakes was deathly poisonous and some of them were just faintly poisoned and the rest were safe. Leo came to the conclusion that she must’ve gotten the wrong cupcake and was just put into a deep sleep. As she stood out from the casket and everyone wiped away the last of their tears Leo asked Snow white to be his bride and she said yes. The little men waved their goodbyes and Snow thanked them for their kindness and gave them all a small kiss on the head. Snow white and Leo went back to the castle and got all of Snow's old things and decided to build their house in the forest and become neighbours with the seven little men. They all lived happily ever after the end.