It is a story of three sisters: Mary, Ally and Sarah. Mary was oldest of all. Every day they would have bedtime story time in their huge pink room, where they had queen-sized beds parallel to each other. Ally being the youngest one would every day have a special demand for her choice of story from her oldest sister Mary. As they all were lying comfortably on the beds, Ally said in her very cute little soft voice, “Mary, today I wish to hear a story about Minnie and Mickey.”
When Sarah agreed, Mary started. Mary continued the story while turning off the lights and switching on the nightlight.
Once upon a time there was a prince named Mickey. He was clothed in a yellow coat. His chest was shining with big pearls; curly hair peeped out from under his cap. He carried bows and arrows in his hands. He was the king of Ayodhya city, where he was known to be a very strong ruler and people would praise him for his greatness. Mickey was very soft-hearted and valued his family. Since Mickey had a great amount of love for his parents, one day he decided to have a surprise party for his parents. Soon he announced his parents' fiftieth anniversary would be taking place in a gigantic room, which was part of their palace. He wanted to make that day memorable for his parents, so along with the relatives he invited the entire city of Ayodhya. There he saw a beautiful, stunning girl named Minnie and fell in love with her. As he was standing by his window and while looking at the moon he said, “The queen of night is not so fair as Minnie." That is what we call love at first sight and at that point he decided to marry her while he said to himself, “Minnie is my heart's love. I cannot live without her.”
As it was 11:00 pm, suddenly Mary stopped and said, “We will continue this story tomorrow. We all should sleep now.” On the other side, Ally and Sarah were so into the story and were very impatient to know the end of the story. Ally said in a harsh voice, “NO, finish it. I cannot wait to know the ending.” Then, Mary agreed to continue on.
Then the next day, Mickey in an aggressive voice ordered his younger brother, Kyle, that he wanted to meet that girl, but they did not know anything about her. At that very moment, Kyle ordered servants to search for Minnie and report every single piece of information about her as soon as possible. After an hour, servants informed him that Minnie was a daughter of King Blaze.
Without thinking of anything else Mickey announced that he wanted to marry Minnie. The parents agreed.
Blaze liked that proposal and said, “Peerless is Rama, the noble one, and he shall be given for wife my daughter Minnie, who is dearer to me than life.” Then, Minnie and Mickey got married and they lived happily ever after.
Ally and Sarah said, "Great story and goodnight, Mary."
Author's Note: I
chose to retell the story as the bedtime story and focused on Rama and Sita’s
love story as played by Mickey and Minnie in my retold story. Brother Laskhmana
as Kyle was involved as well, but not as much in my story. The story of Mickey
and Minnie is based on the original story of Ramayana which was the story about
Rama and Sita. In the original story, Rama and Sita's love story was not that
short and quick, but rather filled with struggles and problems that they
encountered in every step of their life. For Rama and Sita marrying each other
was not much of a problem, but rather life afterwards was harsh. Mickey
did not have to pass any test in order to marry Minnie, while Rama had to prove
himself as a condition to marry Sita. In addition to that, Rama saw Sita for the first time in the garden and
wanted to marry. In my story, it was not the same setting. In my story, I
covered until Rama and Sita get married and then I declared it as a happy
ending. I like happy endings, so I managed to make it happy.
Bibliography: "Public Domain Edition of the Ramayana" by Public Domain Edition. Website:
Image library for MLLL-4993, Epics of Ancient India
