Storytelling for Week 3: Sad love story

Here continues the story of three sisters Mary, Ally and Sarah.

So, Mary continued, “Not all love stories have a happy ending. There is always an antagonist in the story, which we did not encounter in our last bedtime story. Let’s meet him this time, sisters.”

After a year, Mickey and Minnie were blessed with one cute little daughter named Micmin. Her name was formed by the combination of the first three letters of their names. One day while having dinner, Mickey told Minnie about his one and only best friend, Pete. Mickey described Pete as a short, handsome guy. Pete was really close to Mickey and was planning on visiting them. When he arrived, Mickey introduced Pete to Minnie and since Minnie was very beautiful, Pete kept staring at her and said to himself, “Wow, Mickey has got a beautiful wife. She has gorgeous eyes and perfect figure.” After spending a great week with Mickey and Minnie, Pete was so impressed with Minnie that he wanted to make her his own wife.

Ally interrupted, “What an evil friend!”

Yes, Pete was not a good friend, but an evil personality who wanted to get his best friend’s wife without considering that Minnie was his friend’s life. Pete wanted to confess his love to Minnie, but he could not find a right time to express it. Luckily for Pete, Mickey was out for work and Minnie was home alone. She was in the kitchen making scrambled eggs for breakfast for Pete and herself. While sitting at the breakfast table, Pete started the conversation about his personal life.

He said, “I want to marry someone just like you, Minnie.” 

Minnie just took that as a compliment and said, “Yes, you will definitely find someone even better than me.” 

Suddenly, Pete shouted “NO, I ONLY WANT YOU YOU YOU AND JUST YOU” while slamming his hands on the table. At that moment, Minnie did not know where to go or even what to do because she could no longer stay there with that crazy man. 

Then, Pete followed Minnie into the room and while holding her, he said, “Let’s marry and I can promise you I will keep you even more  happy than Mickey.” 

Minnie said, “What are you talking about? I love Mickey and cannot think of anyone else except for him.” After listening to all this Pete picked her up on his shoulder and took her away. After a couple of hours Mickey came home and looked for Minnie, but he could not find her. Then he anxiously yelled “Pete, Pete” and then he heard Micmin's cry and he ran into the bedroom. After a few minutes, Mickey tried to calm himself down and called Minnie and Pete, but they did not answer. At the end, Mickey was never able to find Minnie even though he looked for her for a very long time. 

Mary said, “Here the story ends, where Mickey stayed alone with his daughter and was never able to find Minnie."

Ally was very disappointed with Mary’s bedtime story and she said, “Mary, next time come up with a better story. This is going to be a horrible night for me.”

Then, Mary said, “Ally, it was just a story. Don’t be sad.”

Minnie and Pete by Source: Flickr

Author's Note:   For this storytelling, I used bedtime story style again because I wanted to continue on with the same concept story of three sisters: Mary, Ally and Sarah. Like in a previous bedtime story, Mickey played as Rama and Minnie as Sita. As compared to the original Ramayana, there was an antagonist named Ravana, who was played by Pete, in the retold story. I decided to make Pete Mickey's friend at first and then later reveal Pete's real and evil personality. The reason for that was to give a story little twist where an actual identity of a character is hidden, which was different from the Ramayana. My retold story continues on after a year. Mickey and Minnie had one cute little daughter. In the Ramayana, Sita and Rama had two sons. They grew up with Sita in the forest, where Sita was sent by Rama because he was not willing to accept Sita pure. Unlike the Ramayana, to show Mickey and Minnie's love and strong bond, I decided to give Mickey and Minnie a baby before being kidnapped. However, Pete kidnaps Minnie and Mickey was never able to find her even though he looked for her for a very long time. Finally, I made the ending different from the original story. In the original story, Earth takes Sita while in my storytelling Pete takes her. The entire setting was different compared to the Ramayana and my story. The entire story took place in a modern house, rather than in a forest place.

Bibliography: "Public Domain Edition of the Ramayana" by Public Domain Edition. Website: Image library for MLLL-4993, Epics of Ancient India