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| Jessica and Gabby gossiping (source: Google) |
"Oh my gosh, did you hear?! Rose, you know, the daughter of those famous directors from down the road, yeah, that couple, I heard that she eloped this past weekend! I don't know what she was thinking, marrying that young, I didn't even know she was going out with someone! I wonder what her parents think about this!" started Jessica, immediately giving her opinion.
"You know, I did hear about that. I also heard that the guy, yeah, the one little Rosie eloped with, is actually some long lost childhood friend or whatever. Apparently they grew up together or something in the town they were in before they moved here, but then they moved here, and they lost contact or something! Isn't that sweet?! It's like a fairy tale!" replied Gabby. "Little Rosie is all grown up and married now! I know, I know, I'm only a few years younger than her, but I'm 31, I have a right to call anyone is their 20s little."
"That's what you heard? Really? I heard something completely different! I heard that he got her pregnant! Yeah! Can you believe it? I can't believe her parents would let something like that go on in their house! I would never!" exclaimed Jessica.
"Who did you hear that from? I heard it from Janet, and you know Janet, she always checks her news. I trust her gossip."
"I heard it from Lauren."
Gabby can hardly believe Jessica when she said that. "Lauren! You believe Lauren! That woman only listens to half of what everyone says and then makes up the other half herself! Trust me, Janet never gets anything wrong. I wonder how she gets all these juicy gossip. But whatever, back to the point. Little Rosie's totally going to pop out some kids in the next year. Her parents should make her life into a movie! Can you imagine?! Having to move at a young age and trying to keep in touch with your friends back home, losing contact after years of not seeing each other, but then, surprise! Your childhood sweetheart appears to audition for your parents' movie and the spark is reignited! You fall in love with each other again as if all those years were never spent apart, and finally, your dream wedding. Oh well, I guess that part isn't so fairy tale, since they drove to Vegas and got married by Elvis."
Jessica gives in, "Alright, alright, fairy tale, blah blah blah. I admit Lauren isn't always reliable. I still think she's pregnant though!"
In the end, of course Lauren was wrong, and Rose didn't have a baby until a few years after their wedding, both waiting until they were financially stable before agreeing to bring another life into the world.
Author's Note
I chose to base my story this week from the Cat's Elopement story from the Japanese Fairy tales unit. In the story, the two cats meet each other one day, fell in love, and ran away. One day, they faced a dog, and while the female cat went up the tree, the male one stayed to fight. It finally caught the attention of the princess's servants, and they took him to the palace. The female cat was being bullied one day, the male cat heard and came to save her. She almost didn't recognize him since they've been separated a while and the princess obviously took care and fed him well. They went back to the palace, explained their tale to the princess, got married, and had plenty of babies.
I thought the format of a gossip would be good, since eloping has a negative connotation these days, especially when the people involved are fairy young. I edited it a bit so that the characters (Rose and the guy) met while young, Rose moved, and meet again years later down the road. They had loved each other all this time, so they decided to elope (like the cats). Since I don't gossip, it was a bit hard to come up with a "gossipy" dialogue, but I think it went well.
Bibliography: The Cat's Elopement from the Japanese Fairy tales unit.
This was a really fun way to tell a story! I think telling it like it was gossip was perfect. I was a little confused at the beginning with all the different characters, but that's usually how gossip goes! This was really creative, and a good way to get my gossip fix without actually engaging in a conversation that I probably shouldn't!
ReplyDeleteThis was a great story Jasmine! I love how you used dialog, it fit perfectly with the setup of your story. I like that you chose to make this a gossip story. I could totally see this being a real conversation about a juicy piece of drama that people have been hearing. Keep up the great writing!
ReplyDeleteI loved reading your story! I really like how you made the story about gossip, it definitely fit and gave an interesting new perspective. It is a cute story to think about two old lovers getting back together in the end! Good job on your story this week! It was very creative! I look forward to reading more of your stories in the future!
ReplyDeleteI also read the story of The Cats Elopement this past week and I really enjoyed it. When I was reading your story I had absolutely no idea that it stemmed from that original one. That's one of the things that I think is so cool about story retelling; you can take one thing and just keep the basis of it while adding in new characters, places, narrators and it will be so different from how someone else retold it. I think you did a great job of adding in details and dialogue between the characters. I laughed when one of them said "She always checks her facts, her gossip is trustworthy" because that's such an ironic statement.
ReplyDeleteThe picture goes perfectly with the title and the story so good job at finding the right picture to include. I also liked how you told it with "gossip". I think I would like to use this story telling technique for my next write up. It seems like a lot of fun. Even though you don't really gossip, you did a great job with the writing.
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