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The Fallen Angel

The Fallen Angel

Fairy Tale

Once upon a time there was a girl who cared. She loved everyone she came across with all her heart. Even if they didn't deserve it. The one thing this girl did not realise, was that not everyone would return that same caring and concern. Some of these people would laugh at her. They thought she was silly to love everyone. This made the girl sad. She loved to make people happy and see the smiles on their faces, but she couldn't understand why some people didn't seem to love her back.

As a result, the girl started to shy away from people. Staying on her own helped her not to show how much she cared. When she went back to join her friends, she kept her feelings detached so she wouldn't get hurt again. Her friends didn't understand what she was doing and started to think that she was mean and cold. The girl didn't know that people lied when they couldn't explain something. She started to believe that she was evil.

No one seemed to notice as the tears fell from her eyes and pale silver lines appeared on her wrist. The girl was slowly distancing herself from the world as she started turning into an angel. She didn't know the reason yet, but the truth was that she wasn't evil at all. The heart of an angel - something so precious and pure - simply could not carry the weight of the world.

That's when the girl met a boy. He was wonderful. He understood everything the others did not. She began to show all the love and care she had kept away for so long. And when the girl saw the pale silver scattered across his arms, she began to think that they were the same. But the boy was not like the girl. He was evil and selfish. The girl was fooled by his beauty and believed the he was an angel too. She had forgotten that the devil could be so beautiful. After all, he was once God's favourite.

The boy let the girl believe that he loved her as much as she did him. But when the girl needed him most, he suddenly vanished.

Hurt and forgotten the girl became angry. In her rage she hurt a lot of people. When she finally realised what she had done, she was shocked. She could not believe it and she vowed to stay alone for the rest of eternity, so that she would never ever hurt anyone else again. So there she stayed, alone in the darkness where she waited and waited for someone to lead her to salvation, wondering if she would still be accepted after all that she had done.

And then one day, when almost everyone had forgotten about the girl, she disappeared. Up in the clouds, she laughed and smiled with people who cared and loved her the way she loved them.

Because all the best people are really just fallen angels, waiting to return home.