*Wednesday*
Welcome back, mermaids, to a wonderful Wednesday, once again LIVE from the
Sea-Weed Circle Auditorium! Today we have a special guest with a shocking love story!
So all my mermaids in the audience, please put your hands together and welcome our guest Crystal!
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Hello, everyone. My name is Crystal! First of all, I must say that I
don't have very good luck with mermen. After nine bad relationships
with mermen from all over the ocean, I gave up.
After my last breakup, my friends tried to cheer me up by giving me a bottle of magic potion. The magical
potion was powerful enough to give humans the ability to breathe and
talk underwater! So I figured if I found a human whom I liked, I would
make him drink the potion and marry me! So the next day I swam to the top of the
water, and started looking for a handsome man from one of the ships.
Every sailor knew that mermaids had the power
to overturn the boats, especially when they didn't get their way. So
whatever we wanted, we
got.
I was determined to find someone to fall in
love with! As every ship passed by, I would listen very closely for the
names of the men onboard.
When the captain would yell "Mark, hand me that over
there," for example I would remember the names of the men and then swim up to the
top and demand that they had to come with me.
Well, it turns out that the men on board
created a scheme of their own without me knowing. The captain would
rename the men on the ship with names of tools and objects so they
would end up throwing the tools overboard, instead of the men.
The captain would say "Yo, hammer, move
those boxes over here." And being as selfish as I was at the time, I
would
demand the hammer! I thought I would get a man - but all I got was a
hammer! I quickly caught on to their
game, but it was the captain's mistake that changed everything.
The captain forgot
to change a worker's name one day, and end up yelling for "Colby."
So I yelled "Give me Colby!" There weren't any objects named "Colby", so they had to throw
Colby overboard to me.
When I came face to face with Colby in the water, I realized how incredibly handsome he was, so I quickly
make him drink the magic potion. After he drank it, I wrapped my arms around him and swam back to my home on the sea floor.
Colby and I quickly
fell in love and got married! I had never been so happy in my entire
life, and we lived under the sea together for five wonderful years. Or
so I thought.
One day my friend Shelly had me to log onto
a new site called Mertwitter. So I created my own account and started
"tweet." I would update my status five or six times a day. I tried
to make Colby get one too, but he said he wasn't interested in such a
silly website.
The next day, I noticed that
Colby had a Mertwitter account that I didn't know about. So I looked at
his status and it said, "Out with my girl."
Funny thing was that I was his girl, but I wasn't out with him.
I started looking at the statuses of other mermaids who
lived close by. None of them seemed suspicious, until I read
Sunshine's status, which said "up to no good."
No good was right! I
knew Sunshine had a reputation for being very promiscuous. I had to find
out for myself! Swimming faster than I ever had before, I swam to
where Sunshine lived.
There it was right in front of me, proof! Lying on the couch were Sunshine and my Colby.
"COLBY!" I shouted!
"Oh my gosh, Crystal! What are you doing here?" Colby said nervously.
So I screamed, "What am I doing here? WHAT AM I DOING HERE? What do you think you're doing?"
Colby tried apologizing over and over again, but I
didn't want to hear it. So I took Colby and swam furiously to the first
ship I saw. He kept trying to apologize, but I couldn't even look at
him in the face. I pushed him to the ship, and swam away.
For five years everything had seemed great. We would even laugh
and joke about how we met, and how the captain's mistake was fate
bringing us together.
When I finally looked at his Mertwitter status again, it only broke my heart even more.
"What did is say?" asked Mermana Montana.
It changes at least once a day. Today it said, "To
my Crystal, I will always love you." It's always a quote about love and
forgiveness, and sadly I can't help but look at it each day.
It has been almost a year now since I took
him back to that ship. My reason for sharing my story is not to say you
shouldn't forgive someone. I'm not saying that you should
never forgive someone for cheating, but I personally can't forgive him.
My advice for everyone watching this: in life you are lucky to find that special someone
whom you will love and cherish forever. Never lie, CHEAT, or steal. But
if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must
steal, steal from unwanted company. If you must cheat, cheat death.
I have created a website to help those who need
relationship help or advice that will be completed soon! For now,
anyone can e-mail me or Skype me for
more advice at Crystal@atlanticsea.com.
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Well,
everyone, this has been a Mermana Montana exclusive! I want to thank Crystal for coming and sharing her incredible story!
Be sure to join us tomorrow with the most recent couple voted off of Dancing With Mermaids!
I'm Mermana Montana...and I hope you all have a wonderful day!
Author's note: I think that I certainly kept the same ideas
and
concepts of the original story, but I definitely added a lot more
detail to my version of it! The main changes that I made were that I
added details that
would tell readers how the humans were able to breathe and survive in
the water. The original story talked very briefly about exactly how the
men
were able to talk and breathe under water for such a long period of
time. I also took the idea of the original story and gave it a modern
twist, and created the
idea of incorporating the social networking site Mertwitter into the
story. On the other hand, I did leave out many details about the
previous relationships that Crystal had. In the original story "Sam"
(Colby in my story) had a wife and a girlfriend! I took my story in a
direction, and instead of having Crystal steal him from his wife,
Crystal found him! I also added details on how Mertwitter was the way
Crystal would be able
to find out Colby was cheating on her. Not to mention, I changed and
created names for the characters!
In addition, I changed the names of the characters. I kept the idea of
the ending kind of the same, but I added
the extra details about Colby updating his Twitter status as a way for
him express his
emotions for Crystal.
Bibliography
Book Title: Folktales Told Around the World
Author: Dorson, R.M
Year Published: 1975
pp. 484-485
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