Upon hearing that the wicked witch Mrs. Ouest was not going to keep her promise, Cinderella's temper rose again.
"How dare you break your own promise, you heartless old woman," snapped Cinderella, who remembered how Ms. Vandertramp once broke her promise to reward Cinderella with some cranberry cheese cake, which was Cinderella's favourite dessert, if she was able to stick to her diet plans for the whole week. In her utmost fury, Cinderella grabbed a jar of Taiwanese Oolong tea, which was cooling on a stove beside her, and emptied its contents on the wicked witch's face, wetting her from head to foot.
Instantaneously, Mrs. Ouest gave a deafening, shrill scream as if in agony, and then, as Cinderella stared at her in amazement, the evil enchantress covered her face and began sobbing. "Oh no! My make-up, my beauty, my magical powers!"
"What's wrong with you? Stop faking, I didn't do anything to you," said Cinderella as she rushed towards the wicked witch and ruthlessly tore away the witch's now wrinkly hands which were covering up her face. Only then did Cinderella suddenly realise that the wicked woman's appearance was completely transformed from an attractive lady into the wrinkled face of an old woman with grey hair. In fact, the wicked witch was as old as the forest, but her vanity prompted her to enhance her appearance by using her magical powers.
"Look what you've done, you violent girl!" screamed Mrs. Ouest in a despairing voice as she caressed her wrinkled face with her hands. "You knew that I was afraid of tea and it would wash away all my magical powers and, yet, you poured that pot of tea over my face! You....you naughty girl!"
"Ahahahaha!" Cinderella broke into a violent fit of laughter as she couldn't control herself any longer. "How should I know you're afraid of tea? If so, why did you put a pot of Taiwanese Oolong tea on the stove for?"
"They're for the guests, you stupid girl!" wailed Mrs. Ouest desperately. "You've ruined my shop and my life! Now, get out! I don't want to see you or your silly friends ever again! GET LOST!!"
In her shame of losing all her magical powers, the wicked witch disappeared in a puff of green smoke and were never seen again.
Bewildered by Mrs. Ouest's overreaction but extremely glad of the fact that she and her friends were free again, Cinderella ran downstairs to tell her friends that the wicked witch Mrs. Ouest had disappeared.
Upon arriving downstairs, Cinderella was drowned by questions and concerns of her kind-hearted friends.
"What happened to you? What did that evil woman do to you?" enquired the scarecrow.
"We were so anxious for you, ye know, Ms. Cinderella," said Mr. Knight.
"We tried to go upstairs to save you but we were prevented by that evil enchantress' spell," exclaimed the Wolf.
After hearing Cinderella's elucidation of the entire event, the three friends let out a sigh of relief.
"Well, that was very close," said the scarecrow. "Why were you so confident that you would be able to win the bet?"
"Because my father once said that my tummy is a black hole that can never be filled," chuckled Cinderella as she thought of her father.
"How did you know that the tea would wash away all of the witch's magical powers?" queried Mr. Knight.
"Actually I didn't, I was just so mad that she decided to break her words that I just had to fling something at her," answered Cinderella, shrugging, as the four friends walked out of the restaurant, back on the Golden Brick Road. "And that pot of tea happened to be the closest thing I could reach, other than the empty plates on the table, which would be too dangerous to throw at someone, even if she is an evil witch."
The friends laughed together.
~To be Continued~
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