Our Tragic Fairy Tale

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A flower's beauty

Is the cost of one's patience

Pay attention to her voice

And you'll hear

Her silent cries

The writer smiles lovingly at her characters as they fall in love. She wonders who this year she will fall in love with. The thought sadden her. She was so in love with one to learn that he was just another person, she was torn apart. She believed he was the one. He was different, so different. Yet, he is the complete same as everyone else.

He could see the tears she cried out last night even though she washed them away. He noticed every little thing, the changes in her voice, the word choices she uses, and her mood. He knew that the happier she sounded, the sadder she is. However, he used his spells and made her experince true happiness. She laughed and smiled without a sweat.

But then, he is the same as everyone else. He smile as she tells him her scars until he is hit in the most sensitive spot. Not considering her feelings at all, he spilled out his bitter words and left her to be lost and alone again.

The writer looks at her phone waiting for him. He finallys messages her, "How are you?"

She smiles, " I'm doing fine"

There is a forbidden forest you are not allowed to enter. However, one autumn day, a man wondered into the forest without a care. He was curious. The forest was so beautiful and he wanted to see what was so forbidden about the forest. The man came upon a crsytal clear lake and sees beautiful creatures swimming in it. Bright, vribrant flowers are floating on the lake. The man look closer and his eyes widen.

He finds a young girl in the lake, asleep inside of a crystal. He takes out his notebook and a pencil and begin to sketch the girl, getting every detail possible. He's taken a picture of her in his mind.

He begins to hear a voice singing soulfully. He follows this beautiful voice and finds a girl sitting on a tree, singing. She looks like the girl in the lake. The girls looks like she's apart of the tree. Her clothes are made of the colorful leaves of the tree. Her hair is a dark brown that's been merged to the tree. He stares at the beauty and with every word she sang, it stabbed his heart and his tears begin to fall. He walks up to the beauty and touches her foot.

She stops singing and looks at the man. She blushes and pulls her feet off and travel up the tree. The man climbs the tree and follows her. He reachs to the top of the tree where she is hiding.

He asks why she is running away and she gives him a smile. She apologizes and asks him to leave. He reaches for her but she flinch. He backs away and leaves.

The young girl watches the man leave. She climbs down and begin to sing again.

The next day the man walks back to the young gir singing. He sits and listens. Once again, he cries from her voice. The girl is confused. Why is he crying. She jumps off the tree and slowly crawl towards the man but she stops. She is limited to how far she can go. He walks towards her instead and she looks at him closely. She wipes his tears and while she did he noticed something cruel. Scars are left all over her body. He quickly pulls her into a hug. This surprises her but she couldn't do anything. She liked it, but the feeling of fear pushed him away.

She runs to the tree and hides once again.

He is not the first to have seen her. The first few tried to convince her to leave with them. Then one tried to pull her out. The next sang with her but scarred her and left.

She became frighten of mankind but her heart was still soft and kind. The man leaves once again but came the next day. She she sings, he rested under the tree and read a book. He continued the same routine day after day. One day, when he fell asleep while reading, she quietly climb down the tree and sit beside him. She observe him and touch his hair and face. She takes his book and flip through the pages.

She then grabs his hand and lets go immediately. She pokes his hand and climbs back up. The next day, the man visit girl again but carried a guitar instead of his book. He sits comfortably and begin to play his guitar as she sing. They were in perfect haramony.

She gets off the tree and sits beside him. He stops playing and she stops singing. She looks at him and he smiles. He takes her hand and he begin to sing as he dances with her. She is confused but sang back and the next thing she knew was she enjoyed it.

She begin to laugh and sing of happiness. This time, he knew she is happy for he did not shed a tear once but smiled. They became closer as autumn ended. Winter came but no matter how freezing it is, he still visits her. He blushes as he sees her.

The leaves on her body have fallen and what's left is her bare, pale body. She smiles and jumps off the tree and run as far as possible to him. He makes his way to her quickly and wrap his jacket around her.

He begins to shiver from the cold. She notices and gives him back his jacket. She tells him she doesn't need it. Winter was long but loving. They warm each other up with one another's warmth. They satisfied each other's needs and then shared a kiss. Spring came and flowers have wrapped her bare body up. Her sweet smell seduced the man's heart.

He's fallen for her more. As they fall deeper for each other, the girl's desire to break free from the tree became bigger. The man's desire to take her home grew. They both wanted each other but couldn't.

He then asks her about her scars. She hesitated but told him everything. With each word she said, the crystal in the lake begin to crack. He was loving and caring at first but the moment he heard about the other men he became dark. Not because of jealously but because he knew the pain of rejection. The pain the men have brought upon her was ignored by the man and all he could hear was rejection. Rejection, yes, a word that has haunted him for years. He begins to pity the men who have been rejected and turn against her.

They two argue.

The man leaves.

The girl hides in the tree.

He stops showing up.

The crystal in the lake thickens and the girl sleeping in it falls deeper into a dream.

However, once in a while, the man would come to listen to her song at a distance where she can't see him, but she always could see his shadow from far away.

More rumors about the forest begin to spread by the man. The forbidden forest truly is dangerous.

It's strange how we fall in love so quickly but at the same time be broken down so fast. The strange part is how the pain lasts so long and lingers in our hearts.