Cursed To Love

I sat at the south end of the large oak dinning table.

This is such a stupid idea, I don’t even know why I let Louise talk me into doing this,

I’m not even looking for a wife right now.

I thought to myself as I look down the table at all the women of all different shapes and sizes conversating amongst each other, ever so often glancing at me.

I sat there quietly picking at my dinner when Louise (one of my personal servants) approached me, she cleared her throat before speaking. “Excuse me Mr.Wes, have you chosen a bride yet? You know it was in your father’s will to have you married by the year marking his death.”

“I cannot love any of these women Louise, they are all unloveable. Too common, that’s what they are.”

I stand up from the table, the room falls silent as everyone’s eyes fall on me waiting for me to speak.“I’m going to have to ask everyone to leave, thank you all for coming but there will be no chosing of a bride tonight, so you all must leave now.” I demanded. As soon as the women got up to leave the giant glass window behind me explodes into a million pieces.

A man in a long black cloak that blacked out his face stood at the bottom of the window frame. As I whip around to face this intruder and he is standing right in front of me. A ball of light brighter than the sun emerges from him as he yells “THEY ARE NOT THE PROBLEM, IT IS YOU ELI WES WHO IS THE UNLOVEABLE. AS A LESSON, YOU SHALL BE AN OUTCAST TO ALL BEINGS EXCEPT ONE, THIS CURSE SHALL BE ETERNAL UNLESS YOU CAN SUCCESSFULLY AQUIRE LOVE WITH ANOTHER.” With that a single flash of white light he disappears, along with the women who were crowding the room moments ago.

I stand there for a few moments longer trying to gather my thoughts and process what just happened, when I couldn’t come up with a logical conclusion I turn to Louise. She was still standing there behind my chair frozen in fear,“Stop standing around and start cleaning this mess up, I’m going to bed.” I bark. Louise snaps out of her trance and scurries out searching for Samuel and Penelope to help her clean. I retire to my bedroom and as I grab the doorknob a sharp pain shoots through my chest, I stumble into my room with my hand on my chest and slam the door shut behind me. I fall onto the silk black sheets of my bed while my body aches.

It starts out as a heat like fire spreading from my chest throughout my body then the sound of cloth ripping and a sting shoots down my spine, next my head starts pounding, and finally I feel two sharp stabs in my upper jaw. The heated pain slowly cools and I am finally able to stand, I catch a glance at my reflection in the giant mirror hanging on the east wall and I almost faint.

My bleach blonde hair has grown at least two inches and these soft snow white fluffy wolf ears were peaking out of the shaggy mess of hair on top of my head. I then feel something hit my right leg, I look down and see a matching fluffy wolf tail. I look back at the mirror, there are two little white triangles pressing against my slim pale pink lips, I part my lips to reveal that my canine teeth have grown an inch and a half.

I run down the grand staircase, “LOUISE!! CHARLES!! SAMUEL!! PENELOPE!!” I scream. I run into the dining room, the window is boarded up and the glass is gone, there is a salt and a pepper shaker at the feet of a suit of armor. When did we get a suit of armor? I think to myself. All of a sudden I hear Louise “oh no, this is not good not good...” She rants

“Louise! Louise! Where are you?” I call. All of a sudden I am hit by a golden dove, the dove hovers in front of me mid-air.” Mr Wes! It’s Louise, The curse is real!!! The salt and pepper are Samuel and Penelope and Charles is the suit of armor! I don’t understand any of this Sir.” I am overwhelmed with all this information and my head starts spinning, I must sit down before I pass out.

I sat at the south end of the large oak dinning table. This is such a stupid idea, I don’t even know why I let Louise talk me into doing this, I’m not even looking for a wife right now. I thought to myself as I look down the table at all the women of all different shapes and sizes conversating amongst each other, ever so often glancing at me.

I sat there quietly picking at my dinner when Louise (one of my personal servants) approached me, she cleared her throat before speaking. “Excuse me Mr.Wes, have y“I cannot love any of these women Louise, they are all unloveable. Too common, that’s what they are.”

I stand up from the table, the room falls silent as everyone’s eyes fall on me waiting for me to speak.“I’m going to have to ask everyone to leave, thank you all for coming but there will be no chosing of a bride tonight, so you all must leave now.” I demanded. As soon as the women got up to leave the giant glass window behind me explodes into a million pieces.

A man in a long black cloak that blacked out his face stood at the bottom of the window frame. As I whip around to face this intruder and he is standing right in front of me. A ball of light brighter than the sun emerges from him as he yells “THEY ARE NOT THE PROBLEM, IT IS YOU ELI WES WHO IS THE UNLOVEABLE. AS A LESSON, YOU SHALL BE AN OUTCAST TO ALL BEINGS EXCEPT ONE, THIS CURSE SHALL BE ETERNAL UNLESS YOU CAN SUCCESSFULLY AQUIRE LOVE WITH ANOTHER.” With that a single flash of white light he disappears, along with the women who were crowding the room moments ago.

I stand there for a few moments longer trying to gather my thoughts and process what just happened, when I couldn’t come up with a logical conclusion I turn to Louise. She was still standing there behind my chair frozen in fear,“Stop standing around and start cleaning this mess up, I’m going to bed.” I bark. Louise snaps out of her trance and scurries out searching for Samuel and Penelope to help her clean. I retire to my bedroom and as I grab the doorknob a sharp pain shoots through my chest, I stumble into my room with my hand on my chest and slam the door shut behind me. I fall onto the silk black sheets of my bed while my body aches.

It starts out as a heat like fire spreading from my chest throughout my body then the sound of cloth ripping and a sting shoots down my spine, next my head starts pounding, and finally I feel two sharp stabs in my upper jaw. The heated pain slowly cools and I am finally able to stan, I catch a glance at my reflection in the giant mirror hanging on the east wall and I almost faint.

My bleach blonde hair has grown at least two inches and these soft snow white fluffy wolf ears were peaking out of the shaggy mess of hair on top of my head. I then feel something hit my right leg, I look down and see a matching fluffy wolf tail. I look back at the mirror, there are two little white triangles pressing against my slim pale pink lips, I part my lips to reveal that my canine teeth have grown an inch and a half.

I run down the grand staircase, “LOUISE!! CHARLES!! SAMUEL!! PENELOPE!!” I scream. I run into the dining room, the window is boarded up and the glass is gone, there is a salt and a pepper shaker at the feet of a suit of armor. When did we get a suit of armor? I think to myself. All of a sudden I hear Louise “oh no, this is not good not good...” She rants

“Louise! Louise! Where are you?” I call. All of a sudden I am hit by a golden dove, the dove hovers in front of me mid-air.” Mr Wes! It’s Louise, The curse is real!!! The salt and pepper are Samuel and Penelope and Charles is the suit of armor! I don’t understand any of this Sir.” I am overwhelmed with all this information and my head starts spinning, I must sit down before I pass out