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For my Princess~
From her Prince~
Once upon a time, in a far off kingdom, there lived a beautiful princess. She was friends with a handsom prince from a nearby kingdom. Whenever they were together, they had the most wonderful time. They would laugh and play and run through the fields, and do all sorts of fun things together, and theyd each have smiles on their faces from the time they joined to the time they left at the end of the day. They were always happiest together.
Since it was hard for the prince and the princess to get together, the prince and the princess would often write letters to each other to keep the other happy, and try to bring smiles to their faces; and usually, this would work too. But one day, the prince wrote a letter that made the princess cry. The prince had missed one of the princesses words in her letter, and answered a question totally innappropriately. The princess got sad, because she thought it meant the prince didn't love her any more. She cried and cried for days and days. She never wrote the prince back, she just stayed in her room and cried.
Eventually, her tears became a river, and that river divided the two kingdoms, seperating the prince from the princess even more. When the prince heard about how the princess was sad because of what he had written, he was devastated; the last thing he'd ever wanted was to make the princess sad. So he wrote a letter to the princess, begging her forgiveness.
"Dearest Princess, please don't cry. You mean the world to me, and every tear you drop pains me like a thousand arrows."
But the princess did not stop crying. She read the letter and cried harder, now because not only was she hurt by what the prince had written earlier, she thought the prince was now outright telling her she was hurting him. Undaunted, the prince wrote another letter.
"Dearest princess, please be happy. Your happyness to me is like a warm summers day, pushing the clouds away and bringing light and joy to all the creatures in the land.”
Now the princess cried harder still, because she thought the prince had told her that her being sad was hurting everyone in the land. By this time, the princess had cried enough tears that an ocean had formed between the two kingdoms. Roaring waves beat against the castle walls of both kingdoms, and vicious sea beasts had made their homes in the ocean. Finally, the prince vowed he would right the princess one more letter, and hope it would be enough. The princess was sitting at her window, staring out at the kingdom across the ocean, when a servant entered her room and handed her the third letter. She read it:
"Dearest princess, I will not beg you to be happy. I will not try even to persuade you to stop your crying. All I am asking you in this letter is one simple favor for the man you once considered your love, and the man who still considers you his:"
The princess turned the letter over and read the last two words:
"Turn around."
Startled, the princess spun towards her door and saw, standing in its frame, the prince. He was wearing his full royal regalia, though it was soaked with the salty water from the ocean of tears. The prince had refuesed to give up on his princess, and built a boat for to reach her. He had sailed across the treacherous currents and dangerous waves to reach his love. And he stood there, looking at her sad face, with the same big kindhearted smile he always had for her. The princess leapt from her seat and ran towards the prince, leaping into his arms. He still cried, though now she cried tears of joy, and the prince cried with her, sharing in her happyness for the first time in far too long. For the rest of the evening, the two simply stood there, crying in each others arms, until at last, neither cried no more.
"I love you", the prince told the princess
"And I love you!" the princess told the smiling prince
Now, the two had kissed before. But these were friendly kisses, pecks on the cheek, that sort of thing.The had never had a kiss like this. The prince and the princess, for the first time in their lives, shared a kiss of true love. From the passion of that kiss, a rainbow was formed. It shot into the sky, and parted the clouds before the sun, and finally ended back at the princes own kingdom. It wasn't long before the sun dried up the ocean, and the two kingdoms could work together as they had before. When the valley between the kingdom was completely dried, the prince and princess got married, and their union so unified their kingdoms into one.
The rainbow still stays in the sky to this day, a symbol of their love, and any two lovers love, showing how even after the tears and the storm, the beauty of love remains.
The End
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