From Rags to Riches to Rags - Original Writing

From Rags to Riches to Rags - Original Writing

Once upon a time, in a far away land lived a beautiful young

princess...Well, actually that's a slight exaggertaion. In the centre

of town in Birmingham, in a dingy, ancient bed-sit lived a scruffy,

lonely teenage girl named Marigold. Marigold had ruined her chance of

ever leading a lavish lifestyle when one day she went too far and

ended up on the streets. Marigold, like all teenagers,craved attention

but she often took things a step too far, like the time she dyed her

hair electric blue and had the sides shaved off, or like the time she

thought that taking her Mothers clapped out old vauxhall to the park

for a spin would create some excitement, or like the time she put a

live mouse in her sisters shoe...but the day she played a dreadful,

spiteful prank was the day things went to the extreme point of being

wrong. This prank changed Marigold's life for ever, it made her

homeless and left her alone and frightened. This is Marigold's story;

"Muuuummm, the electricity meter has ran out again!" Marigold yelled

to her Mother from the smelly old cupboard which housed the meter.

Marigold was a scruffy little child who was on the brink of becoming a

teenager, she shared her one-bedroom, ancient, rotting flat with her

extremely bright, animal-loving sister Lily and their eccentric

Bohemian Mother, Daisy. The home they shared was a far cry from being

normal with their Mother's foul smelling scented candles lit in every

room in the house, incense sticks wafted ghastly odours to the

entrance of the flat and rainbow coloured flower motifs domineered

every wall in the house. Life for Marigold and her family was

painfully hard, with Daisy being a single, unemployed parent, money

was very tight and the family lived on a poor diet of bread, beans,

rice, the occasional Pot Noodle and the cheap juice that the woman

next door always brought round on a Friday afternoon as a treat for

them. However, the situation had not always been as bad.