Week 2 Story: Beauty and the Lonely Boy

Once upon a time there was three brothers: John, Jake, and Jack.  John and Jake were twins, while Jack was the youngest, who always got picked on and told he would never find love.  One rainy afternoon, the boys were bored and asked their father to run out and grab a few things at the store.  Their father then mentioned that he had to go to a meeting today to look for potential wives for his boys to marry; the twins immediately listed off qualifications they wanted for their potential wives: pretty, pretty, and pretty.  The younger brother, Jack, simply said he wanted a woman who could be his best friend, and that looks were not of major concern to him.

After hearing all the boys' requests, the father went out to find potential wives for his sons.  While at the gathering, the father ran into several girls he believed would be the perfect fit for his twins, but he could not seem to find one for Jack.  After trading information with two young women for his twins, the father, discouraged, began to head home to tell his unfortunate news to Jack: he could not find anyone for him at the gathering.  On the father's way home, he ran into a pumpkin carriage. Inside the carriage he found a fairy god-mother, and a young woman covered in rags complaining about a lost shoe.  They offered the father a ride home, and the father accepted.  Upon his arrival home, he told the twins they would be meeting their future wives the next day, and could not seem to find Jack.  After several hours of searching, the father had found Jack down the street from their house at a shoe store.  When asked why he had wandered off from home, Jack said he was visited by a fairy god-mother who told him to go purchase one single glass-slipper.  After purchasing this slipper, Jack walked outside and saw the same woman that was in the pumpkin carriage, the same woman who had given his father a ride home.  The woman slowly pulled up her dress to show she was wearing only one shoe, and that the shoe Jack was holding was the missing one.

Jack quickly bent down to put the shoe on, which was a moment that changed his life forever.  Right when the shoe was placed on this woman, she immediately turned into a beautiful princess wearing a beautiful white wedding gown.  Jack had always believed in love at first sight, and this was it, the woman in front of him was going to be his best friend, the woman he wanted to be with for the rest of his life.

One thing quickly led to another, and the young woman agreed to be Jack's future wife.  Shocked by the success of their younger brother's findings, the twins were reluctant to support the relationship because of their own jealousy.  The disapproval of his brothers was not of any concern to Jack; the only thing he was concerned about was that he was happy and had found his best friend.  It goes to show you that the best things in life come out of nowhere; the best things in life come from listening to your mind and following your heart.

Jack and the young woman lived happily ever after!

(Glass Slipper; Photo from Wikipedia Commons)

Author's Note: Hello everyone! I took the original story of Beauty and the Basilisk, and the main change I made was the gender of the main characters.  The original story had three girls, the mom went out to look for the things they wanted, and the overlooked sister got traded for a rose to a basilisk.  My version of the story was three boys who all asked for wives to bring home, except for one who asked for a best friend.  This added a special extra romance twist to the story; it makes for a twist on Cinderella as well.

*This is my first time doing creative writing, so bare with me!*

Bibliography: Story source: Beauty and the Basilisk from The Key of Gold by Josef Baudis (1922).