Tale of a Lonely Heart

The young lady sat in her home of many years, a quaint little dwelling due to her poverty. She dreamed of meeting a prince of a man while living in the squalid little shelter, the only thoughts that kept her happy.

She hated waking daily to the run down state of her home. She was miserable and could not stand the way society had left her and others--in a hopeless state where good things never seemed possible. She felt abandoned by the people around her, who never helped her finance her dreams, but left her because society had become a place where people had to fight for the right to be happy and survive.

One day, her mother flew into the room she sat pondering sad things in excitement. "Amelia, someone left a package for you!" her mother exclaimed as she put the package in the young lady's lap. "Aren't you going to open it?"

Amelia, the young lady, hesitated at first as she was aggravated by the annoying way her mother entered her room. She slowly began to open the package as she knew her mother would
prod her into it if she didn't.

To Amelia's surprise, it contained a pretty crystal rose and closed envelope. The present
gave her much joy to think someone actually thought of her for a change. "Are you going to open the envelope?" her mother asked.

"Ok, all right, mother--take it easy," Amelia responded as she opened the envelope. She read the contents, but not to her mother, who began to fidget nervously."

"So who is it from? What does it say?"

Amelia glared at her mother, as the peskiness started to take it's toll on her patience. She then calmed herself, and said, "It's from a person who claims to know me and love me but I remember nothing of the story he writes. It says that I actually belong elsewhere, but people keep drugging me and erasing my memory as to keep me away from knowing all the good things that happen there. My main question is, why are you going along with it, if this is true?"

"I don't remember anything like that. All I know is that it was thought you were safer here. I am your real mother of sorts, but more of a surrogate that had you. They sent you back to me because your parents were very bad at taking care of children." Amelia looked at her mother in shock. "I believe the person who sent the package is waiting for you out in the living room."

Amelia dashed past her mother, now known as a surrogate mother who had parented her all these years, to the home's living room and found a tall, dark and handsome prince of a man standing there. "Hello, Amelia, you probably don't remember me much, but I remember you. In, fact yopu probably don't remember many of our visits," the man spoke.

Amelia recognized him and yet didn't. Somehow he stirred up a memory that she never really remembered having. The immense feeling he gave her just by standing there was one of immense love and affection. He opened his arms wide and she ran into them, as he embraced her. She barely knew what she was doing, but something about him felt so right.

"I'm here to take you home, not to the home of the wicked parents that caused you great harm, but to another home made just for you. Plus, I have another present for you." The man got down on his knees and placed a pretty engagement ring on her finger. "Will you marry me?"

"I barely know you, I don't even know your name..." Amelia looked at the man, stunned by such a gesture.

"It's Mike, and I think you do know me...from your dreams." She paused for a moment, surely all those dreams she was having at night about being in love with someone weren't true, and yet the man now kneeling before her looked so much like the man she dreamed about. "Please, just say yes--I promise I can take care of you. I make enough money to support a family, so you wouldn't even have to work if you don't want to."

Amelia was confused, she didn't know him, but his handsome features and everything about him made her want to say yes. She felt like she belonged with him and dared a look into his eyes. They were sincere and ones that held great depth of emotion for her. "What do I have to lose, I guess? Yes, I'll marry you!"

He did as he promised. He took her that day, February 14th., to a great marriage ceremony he had pre-planned as if he knew she would say yes. After a joyous and splendid celebration, he took her to her new home.

Amelia gasped at the beauty of her new home. It was a beautiful manor from the outside with pretty flower gardens lining the yard. Inside, it was two floors of huge expansive rooms. She was so excited she embraced Mike and exclaimed, "Thank you so very much! You have made me so happy!" She kissed him fondly. She was about to let go when he embraced her tightly and gave her a long lasting, romantic kiss.

There Amelia now dwells, with her handsome prince. She truly feels like a princess because of her handsome stranger, even though he really wasn't. She is so happy now and it is such a change from the awful dwellings of before her whole outlook on life has changed. Every night her prince gives her a flower from the garden, and they join each other at a second floor window to take in the beauty of the manor grounds and the night sky.

If there is a moral to be had here it's this, "Don't abandon the poor because they are that way, give them the hope of a happy future."