Week 11 Story: True Love Has a Way
There's always that one person – everyone has them, you know who they are, and you can't ever get them out of your head. They're more than just a little crush, they're definitely your love.
The thing with this story is, two different boys had these feelings for the same girl, and she never knew how one got to the point of not talking to her anymore, and she'll never know.
These two boys knew one another and knew that each of them shared the feelings for this girl. After months of talking to the girl and not getting anywhere because she was caught up on which one of them to choose, the boys decided to take matters into their own hands.
What that looked like was the boys setting up little challenges and then determining who "won" each challenge with the girl – whoever won the most challenges "won" the girl.
The challenges were things like: she has to compliment you, meet a requirement on her bucket list, have a deep conversation, meet her family and get a kiss, among others.
Each boy asked the girl on dates. After each boy completed one to two of the tasks, one of the boys didn't feel right about the situation with the girl. He saw the way she talked and looked at the other boy, and felt that it was right if he gave up on the challenges and let the other boy pursue her.
After a couple of months, the boy and the girl started dating, then got engaged and finally got married. But, don't worry about the other boy, he's now in a happy relationship with hopes to get engaged soon.
The girl never knew about the competition going on between the boys, and hopefully she'll never find out. True love does always have it's way, it just sometimes takes a little letting go to be able to find it.
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Author's Note: This story was based off of the story "The Race Between the Crane and the Hummingbird" in the Native American Unit. The story is about a crane and a hummingbird who both love the same girl, but the girl is only into the hummingbird. To get the crane to leave her alone, she challenges the boys to fly around the world and whoever makes it to her first wins, assuming in her mind that the hummingbird would win. Long story short, the crane won the race, but the girl chose not to marry him because she did not want to spend her life with an ugly bird, so she chose to stay single. For my story, I changed the animals to humans and kept it about two boys and one girl with the competition aspect. Instead of one boy winning and the girl choosing to be single, I changed the story to be that one boy notices the love the girl has for the other boy, and the two live happily after after together – a true romance story NOT like the story I based it off of. I hope you enjoy!
Hello Sara,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this story. It is a short and sweet love triangle. Its neat that you changed the characters from animals to humans. What made you decide to change them? It's great that all of the characters were able to live their lives happily. I wonder why the boys never told her about their competition. I am curious to read the original story now.
Hey Sara,
ReplyDeleteI do like your take on the Native American tale, it is a short and simple story that conveys emotions which everyone experiences. That's something that is often very difficult to enclose in such few words, but you did so very well! I was curious what was the impetus which prompted you to change the story around where the ending was so drastically different? Was it merely dissatisfaction with the original tale or something else? I'm curious to see what else you have to write in the future!
Sara,
ReplyDeleteI really like your rendition of the story. I think your change from animals to boys in the story competing for a girl really made the story have more of a modern feel. I also like how the story ending in a positive way for both of the boys. I thought you did a great job of allowing the story to be short yet still be impactful. Great job!