Thursday, December 20, 2012

Bathroom Monologue: The Sleeping Beauty Incident

The wizened fairy buzzed around The Prince’s head like a halo, shooing him into the chamber. He bowed at the threshold, taking in the musty room. A bed wide enough for ten consumed more than half its breadth, sheltering a solitary girl who couldn’t have been a day older than himself. Her slenderness, and that porcelain complexion, haunted him from first sight, because this wasn’t first sight. This was the girl from his dreams.

The Prince knelt on the covers, hands hovering over her shape, uncertain how to go about this. She was so pale, and her breathing so shallow that she could have slept in Death’s arms.

“Go on, go on,” the old fairy coaxed from the doorway. “She’s been dreaming of you, too, for so many years.”

Heart thudding against his ribs, The Prince lowered until he finally felt her breath sweeping his cheek. He took the narrow peak of her chin, holding his breath for fear an exhalation would blow her away in the breeze, and pressed his mouth to hers in a kiss he’d dreamed nightly for months. She moaned into his mouth, body arching under him, and he lowered his left arm to sweep her from the bed. Yet as soon as his hand touched the small of her back, a palm thrust into his forehead, pushing him away, and her body lurched, curling into the covers and burying her face in the pillow.

“Five more minutes,” she mumbled. “Just five more minutes…”

The Prince furrowed his brow and looked to the window. The wizened fairy was checking her watch.

8 comments:

  1. Ah, that was a great twist. I wonder if the fairy will next conjure up an alarm clock.

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  2. Ha! I know a couple of princesses who are just like this...

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  3. Oh, dear, I'm a princess and I didn't even know it! :) (although it's usually "Nine minutes more", since that's the setting on my snooze button)

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  4. Hahaha! Oh that is my everyday beg... Prefer the story like this, John, and it fits yesterdays topic. Realism indeed.

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  5. Prince schmince, you wake me early you'll get more than a palm to the forehead. :)

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  6. Anyone who wakes up a really good sleep (and a hundred years has to fall into that category) is lucky to get out alive. This is a very accommodating princess, unless she is taking the passive aggressive approach, and will ask for five more minutes with each kiss...

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  7. Hahaha! Cute and funny take on the old tale, John.

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  8. Not all Princesses do mornings. I know this well. Nice story John.

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