My Rotten Stepbrother Ruined Aladdin

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Chapter 1 For once Maddie didn’t need her alarm clock to wake her up She rose with the sun perky and full of life and she got out of bed without a single groan of protest In a matter of minutes she had showered brushed her hair and put on her favorite dress the one with the blue floral pattern and the bright red sash She sat down at the kitchen table to find that her dad had already whipped her up a plate of strawberry waffles her favorite She wasn’t normally a morning person but this was a morning worth waking up for her birthday It had always been her favorite day of the year Haffy birfday to me sang a familiar voice coming from down the hall Haffy BIRFFFFFFFFDAY TOOOO MEEEEEEE Maddie groaned Today was also her rotten stepbrother Holden’s birthday He had annoyingly been born on the same day she had and now that their parents were married Maddie had to share her special day with her least favorite person on Earth Even as he brushed his teeth he couldn’t help singing a garbled off-key version of Happy Birthday in his own honor As she took her first bite of waffle Maddie seriously considered using her birthday wish to make tomorrow come ASAP She tried to remind herself that Holden would be gone for most of the day off zip lining at an adventure park with three of his goony friends So at least it would be a quiet birthday Then that night she was going to have the most awesome sleepover party ever and their parents had made Holden promise not to ruin it This was the upside of Maddie’s dad remarrying He never liked parties himself but his new wife Carol lived for them In the old days Maddie’s dad would blow up a few balloons and stick some candles in an ice cream cake from the grocery store Everything was done at the last minute But Carol had been planning for months She and Maddie decided on an Aladdin theme and Carol had gone all-out She helped Maddie make