Narrator's POV

By the end of the week, it was easy for Ciel to say his stepsisters were utter brats.

When the three girls were in front of their father and stepmother, they behaved perfectly polite.

But when with anyone else, they were horrible.

Alois tripped servants and made their lives purposefully harder; Lizzy 'accidentally' cut up one of the prettier maid's dresses while fencing; and Sieglinde mocked the fact that the servants were mostly illiterate.

The blunette tried to warn his stepmother about their rotten behavior, but she would have none of it and accused him of being jealous of his stepsisters.

Angela believed that he was jealous that Elizabeth, Alois and Sieglinde were stronger, better at dancing and smarter than him, respectively.

So, knowing he had no help, he decided to confront his stepsisters himself.

To get back at them for being mean to the people around them, Ciel planned to sabotage their day.

That night he hid all of Lizzy's fencing swords and cut up her embroidery thread, he poured oil all over the floor Alois danced in and poured ink in Sieglinde's sketchbooks.

***

The following morning, Elizabeth walked into the fencing room, already dressed in her white fencing uniform and holding her mesh mask.

Beginning to stretch, she got ready for a rigorous training session.

The blonde then opened the drawer that held her swords.

None of them were there, the sabres and the foils and the épées were all gone.

Thinking a servant might have taken them to be polished, she decided to be productive and spend the morning embroidering.

So she walked back to her bedroom and opened her basket of embroidery floss to continue her current project.

Picking up the roll of emerald green floss to continue the white chemise she was customizing for Sieglinde'a birthday present, the roll fell apart.

Picking up another roll, she found it had been cut up as well.

All of her floss was ruined!

She began to go find daddy.

***

Alois hummed the tune of the 'Sugar Plum Fairy' as she entered the dance room.

The blonde was dressed in her practice outfit of a black bodice and matching tulle tutu and laced up his black ballet slippers.

Beginning the dance he was practicing for 'the Nutcracker', she immediately slipped.

Thinking she might have lost her balance, she began to start over.

But no matter how often she tried, she kept falling down.

On the twenty time falling, she then noticed how shiny the floors were.

Swiping her fingers across the wooden floor, she saw how much oil was on it.

Upset, she got up and walked to find daddy.

***

Tired after her morning walk around the garden, Sieglinde walked to the library and cuddled onto her favorite plush chair.

She opened the nearby drawer and pulled out her sketchbooks and pastels.

Opening it, she was supposed to see the pages oozing with ink.

Throwing the book to the ground to avoid the ink staining her emerald green dress, she began to tear up.

A whole year of drawings and sketches were gone, all of her hard work was ruined.

Wiping her eyes, she got up and went to find daddy.

***

Ciel was in his room studying when a servant came in and said the Countess and the Duke wanted to see him.

Gulping, he went to the drawing room where his stepmother, second stepfather and his stepsisters were waiting.

He began to sweat nervously when he noticed Lizzy holding the basket of ruined embroidery floss, Sieglinde holding the dripping sketchbook and Alois covered in bruises.

"You called for me?" Ciel asked, playing innocent

Angela nodded, "We did. What do you have to say for yourself?"

"About what?" The blunette asked

Her lavender eyes narrowed, "You have been terribly mean to your stepsisters."

"How so? I have done nothing to them?" The teenage boy denied

"You hid my fencing swords and cut up my embroidery floss!" Lizzy stated

"And ruined my sketchbook!" Sieglinde added

"And covered the dancing room in oil!" Alois finished

"You started it!" Ciel shot back, covering his mouth with his hands when he realized he inadvertently confessed

Sebastian raised an eyebrow, "So you did do it? Why have you been mean to my sweet daughters?"

"They is nothing sweet about them! They are horribly rude to everyone behind both of your backs and they are cruel to the servants!" Ciel replied

Angel rolled her eyes, "This again, Ciel? You keep accusing these polite young ladies of horrible things when you are the only one acting like a brat. You claim you want to help the servants but you are the one making their lives harder. A servant has to clean off the oil from the dancing room and clean ink out of the library drawers."

Ciel's mouth parted a bit in shock, he had not thought of the cleaning up of the sabotages, it had not even dawned on him someone else would have to clean up the mess.

"And what is worse is that Alois could have broken her legs like that." Sebastian added, "If she had fallen the wrong way her legs would have been broken and perhaps even left her crippled. You could have ruined her life in this cruel tantrum."

The blunette's mismatched eyes welled up with tears, he had not thought of that either.

He would not have been able to live with himself if Alois had broken her legs much less become crippled.

"To make it up to them, you will buy Elizabeth new embroidery floss and Sieglinde a new sketchbook out of your allowance and you will massage Alois' bruised arms and legs." Angela decided

Ciel sighed snd agreed.

Lizzy piped up, asking, "Also, where did you hide my fencing swords?"

"Under the pool table in the game room." Ciel answered

The Duke and his three daughters left the room, leaving Ciel alone with his stepmother.

"You have greatly embarrassed me, Ciel." Angela said, "I have been married to Sebastian for little over a week and you seek to be sabotaging it. At this rate I would not be surprised if he began thinking about divorcing me over your behavior!"

"I am sorry, stepmother." Ciel apologized

"Go to your room, I do not want to see you for the rest of the day." Angela punished

***

Ciel sobbed as he closed the door to his bedroom, laying on his bed.

His stepsisters were the mean ones, why did no one believe him?

Sure he had done something mean back to them but they started it!

Maybe he had gone a little bit over the top...