fractured tale 6

Once upon a time, a young prince of New York was looking desperately for his princess. He lived in a big flat with his father, the king, and his butler. He didn't have friends and his father was much too occupied by his work; he was alone and unhappy. So he began to drink alcohol and hang around bars. His butler saw the prince was sorrowful and he started getting worried about him because he came in later and later and he was very tired; he was like a zombie. The butler decided to help the prince and so put notices in all the city. On the notices was written: «The famous prince of New York is looking for his princess, so, all the girls of New York have an appointment at the White House at 10 P.M on Saturday 19th June for a big party!"In reality, the butler had a precise idea to find the real princess.

The day before he put the notices, he was watching a broadcast on the TV and in this programme, participants were eliminated little by little, until the time when only one person remained. It was this participant who won the game show.This gave him an idea: he would organize a big game for girls with eliminations and the one who stayed would be the winner, so the princess.

On the day of the party, everything was ready and all the New York’s girls came. The butler explained the rules of the game. The first elimination was on beauty. The second was on humour. The third was on intelligence. The fourth was on appearance. And the fifth was making an original cocktail, for the prince. One could be eliminated at every stage.Half of the girls were eliminated at the first stage.The second stage was very difficult because the girls had to tell a joke. One of the girls told this joke, "Why is it better to remove one’s glasses during an Alcohol test? Because that already makes two glasses less!!”

The prince burst out laughing, which reassured the butler, even if the joke wasn't funny...At the third stage, there only remained 100 girls. It was the stage on intelligence. The prince asked general knowledge questions to every girl. One of these questions was: «Who is our president? » and one of the girls said, after having reflected a moment, " um...I don't know...." But the prince didn't eliminate her...

At the fourth stage, there only remained 50 girls. The prince loved fashion so, they were noted on their appearance. At the fifth stage, there only remained 10 girls. They had to prepare a cocktail.Every girl prepared her cocktail but just one prepared a very, very good cocktail, with alcohol, fruits and beautiful colours, so she was the winner, and the prince and her, to celebrate her victory, drank alcohol all night. They made a lot of noise and the neighbours called the police. They were arrested and they spent one night in prison.

So, the prince took her to be his wife, for now he was sure that he had found a real princess.