Ella's father took in a new wife almost immediately her mother died and she wasn't very pleased with the idea and to add to her misery her step mother's daughter Ann sees everything she does as a competition and is always trying to be better than Ella especially since Clair Ella's step mother died 5 years after marrying Ella's dad, Ann was trying her best to impress her step father in order not to get kicked out Untill Leo showed up in thier lives and intensify the competition.