Every Turn Of The Page

"Sleep now, Bella." Edward crooned as he gave her a soft kiss on the forehead.

"But Edward, how do you expect me to go to sleep after that movie? Seriously, the ending was such a cliffhanger!" Bella ranted, writhing around anxiously under her bed sheets.

"What do you mean? I thought the ending was good." Edward shrugged, trying to decipher the cause of his girlfriend's distress.

"The last line clearly stated that it was the end of the first book of the Tenth Kingdom. First, Edward!"

"So...?"

"Where the hell is number two? I didn't spend six hours of my life to not find out what happens to Prince Wendell or Tony! Seriously, we just see Wolf and Virginia sitting on a bridge in Central Park gazing at the sky. That's no ending!"

"But they have a happy ending! They're going to have little half-wolf puppies. What more do you need?"

"A sequel!" Bella cried, her eyes wild.

Edward, slightly intimidated by Bella's angry state, tried to think up a way to console her.

An idea hit him quick.

"Bella, I'll make you a deal. I'll make up my own sequel and tell it to you if you attempt to fall to sleep. We have school tomorrow after all."

After a moment's contemplation, Bella nodded and snuggled deeper down into her blankets.

"Alright," Edward began after tucking Bella in tighter, "So back in the nine kingdoms, the evil queen was dead. However, her henchman wasn't."

"But Wolf killed him! He killed the Huntsman!"

"Bella, are you going to let me tell this story or not?"

She shut up.

"So, much to everyone's dismay, the Huntsman was still alive. No one took notice to one missing body when they were cleaning up the Palace. All that mattered was that the Queen was dead."

Taking a moment to think up what would happen next, Edward looked down only to find that Bella was fast asleep.

Leaning down, he kissed her gently before resituating himself on the bed so he could hold her sleeping form in his arms.

Well, Edward thought, I knew that there was no way I could top the greatest fairy tale of all time, but I didn't think that my version would be that boring.