Monday, April 5, 2010

The Other Blog for Another Time: A Fairy Tale Love Story

Since I raved about my love of books AND I said I would tell more on how Billy & I met, I thought I'd deliver on my promise.  But, I need to tell you in Fairy Tale mode, since, well, Billy is pretty much my Knight.  So here goes.  Enjoy.


Once upon a time, there was a girl named Mandy.  Mandy was a fair lass (meaning she was fair-skinned, but I guess she's kinda pretty too).  Mandy married what she thought was a minor Lord.  See, he wasn't quite Prince Charming, but he was no evil villain either.  The girl fell in love and married her Lord, became a Lady and had three beautiful little Ladies.  But-a few years after getting married, the Lord and Lady separated and divorced and the Lady found  herself all alone for the first time.  But she was a brave girl and had good friends helping her through the rough times.  


And then one day, Queen Joy, a friendly, good Queen, who was also Lady Mandy's best friend, decided the Lady shouldn't be alone.  You see, Queen Joy had met a prince, who was nice and sweet and charming...and single.  Hmmm...thought Queen Joy, this prince needs a princess.  


So, being the queen that she is, Queen Joy ordered the Lady to go on a blind date with the prince.  No, really, she ordered it, maybe even threatened death.  I think the head was even involved.  


"No, please!" she exclaimed.  "I am happy alone, I have my little girls and we're content."


But Queen Joy set up the date and luckily Princess JillPrince Jeff and King Wes all came along so the Lady didn't have to go alone.  


And then-Queen Joy turned into a fairy godmother and worked her magic and turned the simple Lady into a beautiful Princess for the night.  But don't worry, instead of a pumpkin, they drove the horse-less carriage; that way they wouldn't lose their ride.


While the Queen Joy Fairy Godmother worked the final magic touches on the Lady, the castle door bell rang.  


Upon laying her eyes on him, she felt those little butterflies in her stomach.  The Prince was tall and sweet and boyishly cute!  Gasp!  He even had good teeth!


So they left the castle to a neighboring kingdom named Santa Monica Pier(Land).  They all strolled through the small kingdom, enjoying the food and stopped in one of the pubs to hear their friend, who was a traveling bard (OK, he played drums) play in one of the pubs.  The Prince and the Lady were both shy, so they didn't speak much, but the Lady thought the Prince to be kind and generous.  


After a pleasant evening, they all headed back to Queen Joy's castle.  Prince Jeff and Princess Jill went to their respective castles and King Wes retired for the night.


Queen Joy, Prince Charming and Lady Mandy all stayed up, enjoying each other's company.  Upon seeing the sun was about to rise, Prince Charming explained that he had to leave, he was supposed to be somewhere within an hour.


Prince Charming left and Queen Joy and Lady Mandy also retired for the night...uhhh...day.


Lady went back to her normal schedule, but after three days of not hearing from the Prince, the Lady figured he has second thoughts or decided he didn't really like the girl that much, so she brushed it away and didn't let it bother her.  


But then the next day, after returning from work, her magical communication device was blinking, indicating there was a message.  Pushing the button, she listened anxiously.  Who was it?  Who could call?  She didn't get calls very often during the middle of the week.  But then she only heard a click, showing that someone hung up on the device.  


"How rude!" she thought.  After a few second of debate, wondering who it was that called her (never occurring that maybe Prince Charming was finally calling her) her pushed the 3 magic buttons on her magical communication device (*69.  Remember that?) and listened to see who called her.


It was Prince Charming!!  She recognized his voice right away.  "Did you call my house and hang up on my machine?" she asked.


"Well, I don't like to talk on the machines..." he stated.  


Taking pity on the Prince, Lady Mandy dropped the issue.  They proceeded to talk about small issues, like the weather and such.


Six hours later...(yes SIX HOURS) they finally hung up, both knowing they'll be sorry in the morning.  They proceeded to talk for the next two days after work, six hours each night.  The Lady knew that the Prince would become one of her best friends, even if they never dated.  


Being bold, about a week or so later, the Lady invited the Prince to her small castle to watch a classic scary movie called Psycho after the little Ladies went to bed.  


They enjoyed the movie, ending up cuddled in a corner of an old couch.  After some time of some good old-fashioned snuggling, the Prince became bold and gave the Lady a quick (but sweet) peck on the cheek.  Knowing the Prince was too shy to make a move (*wink wink*) Lady Mandy stated, "I dare you to do that again."  The Prince went in for another cheek peck, but the Lady (being o so daring) quickly turned her head and the kiss landed on the lips.


(This is where we have a cut scene!  He he.  Fade to black)


They dated for a year and after the Lady threatened death to the Prince (no not really, but he did get a ticket to drive a Nascar car and just in case he died...he wanted her to know he wanted to marry her).  


So the Prince took the Lady back to Santa Monica Pier(Land), pretending to be just taking the Lady on a date.  After riding on the roller coaster many many times, going on the DragonSwing many many times and taking pictures in the photo booth, the Prince suggested taking a stroll on the beach before heading to the horseless carriage to go home.  


As they stood in the moonlight on the sand, holding each other tight, the Prince stepped back and dropped to one knee and asked the most beautiful question in the world...




"Will you marry me?"

And they're living happily ever after...