Week 1 Storytelling: The Perfect Little Home

"THERE was a little boy and a little girl

Lived in an alley;

Says the little boy to the little girl,

"Shall I, oh! shall I?"

Says the little girl to the little boy,

"What shall we do?"

Says the little boy to the little girl,

"I will kiss you." 

(traditional nursery rhyme)

On a dark stormy night in a small town hospital, two teenage mothers are rushed into surgery. These surgeries are to result in two unplanned births of two perfect little humans. As the clock chimed, and Monday became Tuesday, two perfect little cries are heard.

As the two young girls are merely children themselves, they pick an unknown fate for the perfect little boy and perfect little girl and send them off to the orphanage, where the perfect little boy and perfect little girl will hopefully be taken home to a perfect little home one day.

Destined to be together since birth, the perfect little boy and perfect little girl quickly grow fond of each other. As they refuse to be apart, they prove to be quite the handful to any family that attempts to adopt them separately. "Our perfect little home does not exist", the perfect little boy says to the perfect little girl on their eighth birthday as they have grown tired of temporary homes and heartbreak after heartbreak. As they share their one birthday cake slice, they plan to run away. The thought of spending another birthday in the orphanage sends chills down their back. So they run, as the lights are turned off and goodnight prayers are said, the perfect little boy and perfect little girl run. 

So in an alley they live, the perfect little boy and perfect little girl. Although it isn't the perfect little home they had once imagined, they are as content as can be. "Shall I, oh! shall I?", the perfect little boy thinks to himself as his adrenaline is pumping through his body and his lips begin to tremble. "I shall do it", the perfect little boy thinks as he leans forward towards the perfect little girl's perfect little lips.

And there it was, the perfect little kiss for the perfect little kids who will grow old together in their own perfect little love story.

Author's Note: I found this nursery rhyme in The Nursery Rhyme Book, edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke. As the rhyme talks of a the boy and girl being little, the first reason that came to mind for two little kids living in an alley was that they were orphans. From there, I imagined a story that centers around the coincidence of their similar births that in the end prove to be fate. Having had seen movies like Madeline and The Little Princess, I remembered how quickly orphans seem to mature and do things for themselves as they are basically on their own since birth.

Bibliography: This story is based on a nursery rhyme found in The Nursery Rhyme Book, edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke (1897)

Image Information: Picture of an alley found at https://pixabay.com/en/photos/fashion%20street/