Is This Love?
Is this love? Am I truly in love with this...this...ogre? My heart burns for Shrek. But do I truly love him? I'm only ten, how should I know what love feels like? Whenever I am visited by the large green beast, I grow jubilant. He must feel the same.
It is the night of May Fourth, 2014, my second favorite holiday of the year: Star Wars Day. I lay on my stomach, dressed in my Super Mario Galaxy 2 footie pajamas that were given to me on Valentine's Day by Pop-Pop and his surprisingly young wife. I am also rummaging through my mix n' match Ben 10 action figurines. Each time I finish designing my character, I slap my Omnitrix with delight, and the device lets out a satisfying grunt. "Ugh!" the Omnitrix goes. Only, I didn't slap the Omnitrix that time. I hop up into my Limping Dragon attack pose that Instructor Heskey thought me at my Tao Kwon Do academy. Once my mind is aware of what happened, I begin to smile.
"Hello Shrek," I say in a lax tone. Seeing Shrek makes my heart skip a beat. Two beats. Three. My heart has stopped altogether. I collapse onto the floor. Shrek walks over to my limp body. He kneels beside me. He proceeds to repeatedly whack me with his giant ogre paws, and says, 'Rise' repeatedly. My heart once again starts. My body obeys Shrek's command as always. Sometimes I feel that the spirit of Shrek is inside of my body. Shrek stands up. He sticks out his muscular ogre hand, and begins to furiously slobber all over it with his giant squishy tongue of joy. He kneels back down beside me, and presses his wet hand on my face. He brings his moist lips millimeters from my ears. "Adolph my son," He whispers. "I must leave you now." I am heartbroken. He frantically prances over to my window, and jumps out into the peaceful night.
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Is this Love?
RomanceThe shocking tale of two unlikely lovers, who would do anything to protect the other.
