Melanie was beyond despair. “Why me?” She asked herself. “What did I do to deserve this?”
She had been sent to live out her life alone, on an isolated island in the Aegean. No one ever came there, not even pirates, not even accidentally. Even if someone did happen to show up, no doubt her looks would scare them to death. A tangled nest of poisonous snakes for hair isn’t exactly a turn-on.
There was nothing to do but think. Think about what? Her future? Melanie didn’t have a future; all she had was the past. And so, she remembered. All day, every day she filled her time going over every memory she had, from when she was a toddler until right before that jealous bitch cast the spell that made her hair turn into snakes and her face too horrible to look at.
It all started when Melanie met the most amazing man ever and fell in love. His name was Chuck. It turned out that Melanie wasn’t the only one who had the hots for Chuck. Kalista the witch, did too. She warned Melanie three different times to stay away from Chuck. Kalista didn’t understand that even if Melanie wanted to stay away, she wouldn’t have been able to. Melanie and Chuck were in love, and love calls the shots.
Finally, when Kalista saw that Melanie wasn’t going to cooperate, she cast her spell and had Melanie sent to the nameless island. She didn’t know how long she’d been there or what day it was. The loneliness was crushing. What made it even more tortuous was that there was absolutely no chance of visitors. Melanie would never see another human being.
Melanie often wondered what became of Chuck, if he ended up with Kalista or met someone new. Or if maybe he still loved Melanie and didn’t want to be with anyone else. There was no way of knowing.
All she could do was cry.
Ergo, the Ogre 
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