The World's Most Unlikely Romance

A/N: This is a new style I thought I'd try. I'm not too sure that I like it. :p

Have you heard the story of the world's most unlikely romance? At the center of the plot is Dorothy, a chummy girl with the rosiest cheeks you'll ever see. She'd long been in love with a tall, dark-haired Prince Charming, though he was anything but. Five years they'd been courting (not officially but everyone knew it) and never would he propose. 

Then one day he told poor Dorothy that he had to go overseas on business. Devoted little angel she was, Dorothy didn't say a word against him even though he'd been gone five months without a single letter! She eventually started to wear though, any woman with a brain would, and after a year she'd almost lost hope that he would ever return to her. She began to break apart, everyone could tell, though nothing could be done for her.

A letter did arrive though, no less than thirteen months since the man's departure! You can imagine how delighted Dorothy was. He claimed to have been in an accident, lost his memory, and was now recovering in a hospital (which turned out to be only one town away when she looked at the return address). Dorothy would have upped and gone to the hospital straight away had Prince Charming not said the place was infected with numerous diseases and he couldn't stand the thought of her risking herself. 

Their exchange carried on for quite a while; beautiful love letters, so wonderfully written that Dorothy couldn't be apart from the man any longer. She went to the hospital, and you wouldn't believe it, she had to be dragged away kicking and screaming. Her Prince Charming wasn't there, and there never had been a patient with his name! 

Dorothy locked herself away after that, folks didn't see her for weeks. No doubt she felt cheated for being lied to all that time, and confused out of her mind, I reckon. The most shocking part of this whole affair occurred when the girl heard a knock at the door and opened to find Prince Charming standing right in front of her with a bouquet of roses! It wasn't him of course, it was the man's brother (who she'd forgotten even existed). 

Shocked as poor Dorothy was, it would have been impolite to leave him outside, so the brother waltzed in and told her the most ridiculous of ridiculous stories, but every word was true. Prince Charming had long ago been arrested for murder. That's right, murder! The business trip had been nothing but a killing spree. It was all kept hushed up though, and thank goodness because the brother couldn't stand Dorothy's reputation being ruined. The brother loved her, you see, and had always been tremendously jealous of his sibling.

To save her fragile feelings, he posed as Prince Charming and wrote those letters, though every word came from his own romantic heart. The brother was a postman, you see, that's how he got the letters before they arrived at the hospital, and his plan worked well. But then he heard about Dorothy's disastrous visit, and he didn't know what to do! Of course, the only thing he could do was come clean, and that's the best decision he ever made, I reckon. 

Those poetical letters had touched young Dorothy's heart more than anything Prince Charming had ever said, and she fell in love with the brother right then and there. They were engaged a short five days after that meeting, already knowing each other well thanks to those letters. I've been told that they never quarrelled once in their marriage, not once, and lived a real fairytale of a life till the moment they died.