A Day Too Soon.

     "ALL stories start with 'Once upon a time' Aunt Cecily!" That was all this brown haired, brown eyed girl had to say for Cecily to know this wasn't the place she should have spent her day.
     "One day you will realize you want reality over make believe."
     One day. One day happened to Cecily far to young. She was thirteen when she realized the lives that people lived in were the ones that they created themselves. Cecily knew she was one of the exceptionally few who lived in reality.
     "Fairytales are NOT make believe! YOU DON'T believe in fairy tales?"
     "I'm sorry Lily, I don't. In the real world those fairy tales are just stories like... San-... like, well like ice cream mountains. It would be great if they were true, but in reality they just haven't been found."
     It's funny to think about the five year old asking this undoubtedly serious question. They were raised on magical rainbows and perfect dreams. How are "happily ever's" not guaranteed. How are princesses not guaranteed their princes? How is there no magic in this world we have surrounded ourselves in.
Who in the world would make up such vicious lies and manipulate children around the world to believe in such devilish thoughts? who could be this unworldly fiend?
      "But Aunt Cecily, if you don't believe in it, how does someone ever find true love?"
      Love, I could give her. That rationale makes sense. There are plenty of people who fall in love in this world. Plenty who believe they have found their soulmate. Have they? Is it really possible that these people found the ONLY person out of 6 plus billion, that live on this planet, that they are supposed to be with for the rest of their lives. be with... Let's be honest. The chances of that would be WORSE then winning a lottery 10 times a year.
    "True love? Lil, do you even know what true love means?"
     Cecily knew that Lily thought she was an all knowing and ever thinking five year old. But lets be honest, she didn't know the first thing about love. How could she? After all she couldn't even tell you what ten minus six was.
     "Uh huh. It's like the fairy tales Aunt Cic. It's a way that people know who they are gonna marry."
     "People get married every day, Lily."
     "YEAH! DUH! Aunt Cecily, THEY found true love! It's so simple!"
     "Marriages fail all the time, Lily. You remember Uncle Mark? He married that slu-, I mean, that sweet lady Amber. Then a year later, we stopped seeing her remember? They got divorced. Their marriage didn't work. How do you explain those marriages? Why doesn't that true love work out?"
     Surprisingly, Cecily was getting annoyed by the way the little girl was too naive to look at love the correct way. she knew her heart would one day be broken in pieces that were so broken, you couldn't even tell what they would originally make again. Poor Lily, was all that Cecily could think about.
     "Oh Aunt Cic! That's easy. Mark and slu-sweet Amber didn't believe in true love, just like you! Why do you think you haven't found it, silly Cic! It's because you don't look for it. You can't just be the sleeping part of sleeping beauty. You have to find him first. EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT. That's why you are alone."
     Who would have thought that being insulted by a five year old could possibly hurt so bad. True love doesn't exist. She was sure of it. It couldn't. She has been through too many close calls. Too many "would have been perfect lives" to realize that every prince turns into a beast and every story ends in a suicidal mix of love and hatred. This bittersweet twist to the story was one full of broken dreams and unkept promises. Not a single fairy godmother could put back the pieces of her broken hearted puzzle. True love would hurt too much in the end. God couldn't be that cruel. She wouldn't believe it.
     "Life is too hard for 'once upon a times', 'wish upon a star', and 'happily ever afters".
     "You only make it that way because you stopped believing. It is just like the Santa Claus stories." Yeah, of course the five year old went to the next undeniable simple truth. "If you believe, it will happen."
     Cecily couldn't think of a come back and was done with this conversation before she broke every dream this adorable sleek blonde haired girl believed in.
     "It doesn't have to be too hard, Aunt Cic. I will show you one day."
     One day. One day this poor little girl would have her hard dreams broken. One day she would realize the world she lives in is nothing like the one Walt Disney created and one day she was going to cry herself to sleep when she contemplated the same heartbroken suicide.