Day 258: All-Consuming Love Part 1

Here is the first of my creative pieces that I have written for school.  In this assignment, I was supposed to explain how romance through the media can affect people.  I apologize ahead of time for any weird formatting issues.

     As one might expect from twins, Maggie and Laney were as different as milk and orange juice. Maggie tended to be the more reclusive child, preferring to play inside with her dolls and help her mother bake cookies. Laney was the active one, playing softball with their older brother and attending tennis lessons. One thing that kept them close was their shared love of stories, whether they were in the form of picture books or movies. The girls soon discovered that fairy tales were their favorite kind. Maggie would stare at the pictures of the prince dancing with the princess in the story while Laney would be watching a Disney Princess movie. The sisters avidly discussed which prince was the handsomest one. They’d dress up in their princess dresses and pretend Prince Charming would visit soon to dance with each one of them. With her dolls, Maggie acted out various scenes from the movies with her sister. Every day, a different doll fell in love. Laney liked teasing the boys at her sports lessons about kissing and cooties.

     Gradually, the twins grew out of their fascination of fairy tales as the homework they were 

assigned in first grade distracted them.  They learned that the world had many other facets to it, such 

as history, geography, and science.  The twins became eager to learn how water can have three 

different forms, what kind of clothes existed a hundred years ago, and what kinds of animals live in 

Africa.  Their tastes, however, evolved again once they entered puberty, and the talk of boyfriends 

and girlfriends among their friends lured them back into love stories.