A lonely princess, Alice, was sitting in her room, thinking about her lover, a prince from nearby, her cousin as it happened. Must keep those royal bloodlines pure, after all. She was imagining what his lips felt like when he kissed her, when she heard a knocking on her window. She went to open her window and when she did she saw the very person she had just been thinking about.
"Deryk! I was just thinking about you!" she exclaimed, "How did you get up to my window?"
" The staircase outside helped." said Deryk, her cousin-lover.
"Come in, please," said Alice eagerly. Deryk climbed into her room, nearly tripping on the window pane. At that moment a frog jumped out of his pocket and onto Alice's head. She screamed and threw it against the wall, where it splattered into pieces. "Ew," she said in disgust.
At that moment her father, the king burst into the room, "Are you alright? I heard a scream." Then he saw Prince Deryk standing much closer to his daughter than he cared for him to. It didn't help that he had yet to meet his own nephew. "Who is this? What is he doing in your room?" he growled in an accusatory tone.
"Uh, he.." stammered Princess Alice, her eye glancing about furiously searching for any excuse, when she saw the remains of the frog. She then went into a fantastical tale of a prince under a curse, who was to remain a frog until he found his true love, and how she was the one he was waiting for, "... and when I kissed him, he burst out of the frog leaving its pieces all over the floor there, and that's when you came in," she finished.
The king was dubious, but there was the frog, and there was the prince, and he couldn't dispute the proof of his eyes. The years of royal incest had left him rather slow, so he was unable to come up with the truth, so he simply agreed, and went to arrange their wedding as soon as possible.
"Wait, what?" said Deryk, who was not nearly as enthusiastic about the wedding as Alice and her father.
"Don't you want to get married?" asked Alice, with a slight hint of malice in her voice.
Deryk had to choose a course of action quickly, as he stammered, searching for a response, the perfect solution crept into his brain. That was when he dove out the window, completely missing the staircase below, and hitting the ground head-first. He cracked open his skull, blood and brain leaking out, and broke his neck as well, with several vertebrae bulging beneath the elastic surface of his skin.
The End.
I liked how you wrote this, and the ending. The ending kind of made me speechless because you wouldn't expect someone to just do that. But other than that. Good job!
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