True Love's Kiss

Let me start by saying, everyone is a villain in someone else’s story. There’s no avoiding that no matter how wonderful you are. It's a truth that makes every love story and fairy tale sad.

I mean I see where everyone thinks they are wonderful; the guy getting the girl, the princess being rescued from a terrible evil, true love’s kiss… but what about the villains? What about what happens after the kiss? What if bad isn’t always bad? What if the villains aren’t really villains? Not bad and evil and twisted but instead-

No.

There are no buts are there? No pondering or wondering. They simply are just pure evil, ruled by their envy or petty jealousy.

I used to believe that too, until I realized that maybe things weren’t so black and white. That a jealous evil queen often was once a princess that was never saved and maybe just learned to rule alone. Evil witches where once good but only mistreated until they fought back. That those seeking power have in reality felt powerless for all of their lives and never wish to feel that way again.

Not to mention curses, some of the scariest results that affect hundreds of people. They are made to be broken, but what if some of them aren’t? What if some of them are made to last an eternity?

Once upon a time, I didn’t sympathize. Once upon a time, I was an ordinary princess that was pretty. Once upon a time, I was well-loved by my people and trapped in a castle by a fire-breathing dragon for someone to save me.

My true love that came and left all the same, his heart desiring another even if only for a moment. Or perhaps it wasn’t just a moment at all. What was true for me wasn’t true to him.

This is my story, a story of a curse, and evil that almost swallowed me whole, a prince’s kiss that wasn’t enough, and a heart that was broken many times over.

True love’s kiss wasn’t enough to fix this curse.