Adaptations Of The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

The Beautiful Girl or Abused Guy (Adaptation of "The Frog King or Iron Henry")

There was this beautiful girl that everybody looked up to. She was perfect in every way possible and everyone aspired to be her. Often, she would visit her favourite make up store to replenish her stocks. She loved make up and this is the one thing she could not live without. One day, as she was shopping for her make up, she came across an empty shelf where usually her favourite eyeliner would be. She looked next to her where this guy stood, dark straightened hair, blue eyes lined with black, band tee, skinny jeans, vans, and all things in between holding the last few eyeliners in his hand. He asks her if she needed any and says he's willing to share. She ignores him and starts to throw a tantrum about how guys don't need eyeliner and that it was a strictly girls thing. The guy waits patiently until she is finished, when he asks if she would like to have the eyeliner in his hand, only for one thing in return. The beautiful girl tells him he can have whatever he wants from her as long as he gives her the eyeliner as she wants it. The guy asks if she would be his friend as he has heard so many wondrous things about her, and if she would befriend him, he would give her the eyeliner. She agrees to become friends with him while thinking to herself: what a freak! As if she could befriend something that looks like that.
As soon as the guy hears her agree to be friends he hands over the eyeliner, the girl snatching them away before leaving the store. The guy exits after her, looking around, but to no use. Even calling out to her to get her details, she would not turn around, would not listen as she made her way home, forgetting about the guy who gave her the eyeliner.
The next day, the girl was sitting with her friends at the mall, eating her favourite vegetarian meal, when the guy from the day before walks up to her table asking if he could sit down. The girl hastily hides her disgust as she asks the guy who he is. The girl's friends see how uneasy she is and ask her if she knows this guy, to which she tells them that she would never know the likes of him. The girl's friends asks the guy what he is doing here. He tells them of the girl's promise to become friends with him after he gave her the eyeliner she is now wearing. The girl's friends move away from her to make room for the guy, gesturing for him to sit down. He asks if he can sit next to the beautiful girl who hesitantly accepts. As the day grew darker the group had moved from the mall to the girl's house, her parents out of town. The girl's friends could see how uneasy she was having the guy there and decided that if they left, he would too, so the friends left. The guy, feeling as if he has overstayed his welcome, says he should be leaving and asking if they could meet up again sometime for he would like to spend more time with this beautiful girl he has heard so many wonderful things about. The girl lashes out, leaving a red mark across the side of the guys face as she screams at him about how her social status is now lower because she mingled with him, with a lowlife, with a nobody. His dreams of them being friends laughing together, having fun shattered bit by bit as she continued to strike him across the face, verbally abusing him. But he wouldn't face the facts--he told the beautiful girl that he loved her, loved hearing wonderful things about her and couldn't wait to just be around her. She just laughed in his face, the next three strikes sounding the breaking of his heart.
He left that house, that girl, that dream, broken, bruised and swollen. Believing that what this beautiful girl had done to him was love, he never loved again.

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