What If?

                We’ve all heard the stories; the ones with epic battles, damsels in distress, inner struggles and impossible odds. We know how they turn out. The prince defeats his inner demons, finds strength within himself, tackles his foes and saves the princess; and they all live happily ever after. The classic stories of Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast are especially predominant in our society today. However, these stories and plights arouse some interesting questions.

                Let’s say that we were to switch around some key elements in the tales. What if, for example, the princess really wasn’t a princess, but just a normal girl, lacking an angelically beautiful face? Would the prince give up and turn home?

                What if the evil stepmother wasn’t truly evil, just misunderstanding? Would there be really be a villain?

                What if there was no handsome prince, but, rather, he was the villain that the non-princess needed to be rescued from? How would that affect the anticipated “Happily ever after” of the story?

                What if the Beast’s curse fell on the shoulders of a young girl, for absolutely no reason whatsoever?

                Welcome to the story of my life. A life where the question of “Why?” is always foremost on my lips. Why; why do these things happen to me? What horrible crime or unmentionable sin could I have committed to deserve such a fate? I’ll tell you.

                Absolutely nothing.

                I’m merely here, I merely existed. Fate just decided to single me out of the rat race we call life. I’m the experimental rodent, the one that Fate doesn’t care what happens to it, as long as it gets the results it needs. What those results may be is still a mystery.

                I’m sure some people out there would say “This is for your own good. It’ll mold your character, and then everything will turn out alright in the end.”

Will it really? I find that hard to believe.

I don’t think this story will have a happy ending; in fact, I highly doubt it. There is no prince in sight to come riding up on his noble steed and whisk me away to safety; no magical spell to turn the tables and make everything right again. There’s nothing out there to help me.

So, if you’ve picked up this book thinking, “Oh, no matter what happens, everything will turn out alright in the end.”  let me just warn you; it may not end in the way you expected. But, then again, maybe it will.

You’re now left with a choice. You can either close this book now and completely bypass the risk of reading a sad, if not depressing and tragic, ending; or you can stick through to the end, and see where it leads you.

If you haven’t closed this book yet, let me ask you one more question before you start on this trail of tears and broken hearts.

What if the Beast’s curse couldn’t be broken?

Author's Note

Meh... I need an off switch for my brain so that I can stop new ideas from coming in and somehow be able to work on the ones I already have. :P

This is just an experiment; we'll see how far it goes.

Reviews

[Alex Crow]

Wonderful A.L, I think we've all seen this point of view at some point or another. True love doesn't always win in the end, the villians are often not slain and damsals in destress are never rescued in real life.