Fairy Tales Can Come True

Alas, I still live.

I fell in love, and now, I am alone again. I have one baby instead of two.

Her name is Sunshine, she is still small.

Today, I have decided to move on with my life and to be happy even while missing a baby and a girlfriend.

I know I have the babies but I can’t do this anymore.

Everything everywhere is so bad. Nothing is happy.

I’m ready for it to end

Once upon a time, there was a princess who was exiled from her kingdom. She took her two perfect babies with her, and they lived happily in the wilderness.

The devil came knocking one day. He left his mark, and the princess knew that she didn’t have much time before the devil would claim her babies.

Cassie was happy after the babies were born. The doctor had a plan for fixing a particularly pressing health issue, her girlfriend would go on a vacation with her after the trauma program was completed, and the babies would grow up in a castle somewhere, never expected to do a single chore. They would not be sold or given away.

Everyone would be happy and the world would be rainbows.

Then she overheard Alex and his not girlfriend speaking. Cassie liked her too, to the point of a small crush.

They were talking about the babies. About the arrangements. She wasn’t happy with it- and automatically, she blamed herself. She asked him to take the babies names back and he said yes. The deal was off.

Instead of knocking gently, asking if they wanted to see the babies, Cassie quickly put them in a stroller and left. She refused to stay anywhere she didn’t feel wanted or welcome.

“We’re losing her!”

“Code blue! Sir, ma’am,clear the area!”

Cassie could hear them, she just didn’t care. She wanted to drift away into the clouds.

The cry of a baby snapped her back- the cry of two babies.

It would be more than a week before she opened her eyes and saw them.

Cassie laughed, then removed the diamond ring from her finger “The baby isn’t yours and I want a divorce.”

“Oh dear! Well, the twenty minute marriage was nice, but my heart belongs to another.” Alex laughed as well as he removed the band from his finger.

“I think mine does too” Cassie smiles to herself “She’s lovely”

“Once you’re cleared by doctors, Cassandra. Your end of the bargain is to help me fool my family, and to be happy and healthy”

“My friend makes me happy. My freedom“

“You’re free to invite them to the infusion center, but from your reaction, I know you’ve not told anyone”

“That’s not part of the deal. Your family is fooled- and I need you to hold up your end”

“What’s the building today?”

“A hostel, please. You only need to flirt with the girl at the counter, just enough to distract her for twenty minutes. Then collect the rent and deposit it into the Party Planning account”

“When you want to drop whatever this is, please let me know, and after you’re healthy, I expect you to go on a long holiday with your girlfriend”

“I can’t drop my kingdom. My subjects all need me”

“Yes, Princess.”

“Queen! You’re still a prince”

“Yes, my Queen of. Rainbows and giant hellhounds”

“Have a good day, Prince of parties and Hallmark”

Once upon a time, there was a world in a snowglobe. A goose girl worked with geese, and her friend Conrad would steal her hat to look at her beautiful hair.

Conrad went to the king and complained about her, and the king desired the princess for himself. She was actually a lost princess, which only the king knew about.

He pursued the princess, but instead of marrying him, she ran through a magic mirror. She met a beautiful woman who stole her heart, and the king no longer had a chance with her. They married and moved into a cottage in the woods, where the goose girl princess had twin girls who she named Summer and Sunshine. And they lived happily ever after.

She just wanted to sleep. To dream, and be happy. The people- the love. It was all so, so, so nice.

Tonight they planned a wedding, fairy lights, and a honeymoon trip. Cassie wanted that life more than anything.

She was snatched out of the dream by cold. Cold, wet, and someone calling her name.

“Cassie! Cassandra!”

She opened her eyes, a handsome man with a three day beard stared at her.

“Alex? Did you finally sleep with me?”

“No.” He sighs, runs his hand through his hair “You’re in one of my bathtubs... I covered you with a towel, but I nearly called emergency. I still might, You’re in a bad way”

“No!” Cassie jumped up, and realized that all she had on was a wet towel. The man looked away and offered her another. “What did you do??”

“To the person who brought you in here?” Alex shakes his head “That’s your call. I can have him arrested or take care of the situation myself. You’re alive, which is good for him, but you really should get to a hospital.”

“I just need... work” Cassie blinks a few times. “It’s safe there.”

“You’re shivering” Alex says, looking at her quickly, making sure she wasn’t dripping blood or covered in wounds. “He had pills on him, and-“

“No!” Cassie exclaimed, loudly “I’m going to work, now!! Give me my clothes!”

Alex sighs, and leaves the room. Cassie can hear the sounds of a struggle, some fighting. A third against the wall.

“They’re ripped. Take these” Alex offers her a dress still on a hanger and a pair of flip-flops. They were literally the first thing he saw that looked like it would fit.

Cassie blacked out again after that. The next time she woke up, she was Awake. Sure of herself. She knew where the dreams would lead.