Displaced Fairy Tale

Dear Diary,

I heard the Rampion and Eugene Fitzherbert finally ended up getting hitched? Yeah, it's about time too!

We all know what a hard time those two had to go through in order to be together. I mean, heaven forbid anyone get near Rampion with a mother like hers. What was her name? It was something weird. Gretel? Grotto? Girdle...? I don't know! Anyway he always kept poor Rampion on locked down. The poor girl was never allowed to have a life. I swear that girl had been grounded more times than I have! And that's saying something. I once heard that Rampion was grounded for a whole month just because she accidentally ate out of her mother's prize winning vegetable garden.

Do you know how Eugene and Rampion met?

Well I heard that he was walking underneath her window one night when he caught a sight of her brushing her hair. Have you ever seen her hair?

It's seriously sooooo beautiful. I wish my hair was like just like hers! Do you think she gets highlights? Nah, I bet it's all natural.

Anyway, from that moment on Eugene knew she was the one. So every night he would wait for her psychotic mother to go to bed and he would climb up the ivory lattice to sweet talk Rampion through the window. Can you believe this guy? It's kind of creepy, but it's kind of sweet too.
So of course she falls for him. They made plans to run away and elope, but apparently the mother read through Rampion’s diary and found out about their secret.

I know what a horrible woman! I would be sooooo mad if my mom eve read my diary! Absolutely no moms are allowed in this diary!!

Anyway, so after she found out she threw Rampion down the stairs and locked her up in the basement and waited for Eugene to come through Rampion's window. When he came for her that night, the mother yelled at him and mocked their relationship. I was babysitting Drizella and Anastasia next door when all of this happened. I could hear her yelling at him all the way in the living room! She said some really nasty things to him. The official story says that he “fell” out of the window, but I don't buy it. I bet Mother Murderer pushed him. He fell out the third story window and landed in a thorny rose bushes below. His face and eyes got all cut up by the thorns and had to spend a lot of time in the hospital.

Naturally the mother was investigated, and I guess Rampion finally spoke up about her mother’s abuse. The mother was sentenced to prison for child abuse, attempted man slaughter, and get this: during the investigation and trial, the police found evidence that Rampion wasn't even Mother Crazy's real daughter.

YEAH!

Turns out that the mother kidnapped Rampion from her parents down the block 17 years ago and has been raising her as her own ever since. Rampion’s real family moved down to florda a few years after their daughter’s disappearance. I don’t know if Rampion plans to contact them or not. It isn’t really any of my business, so I didn’t ask.

Anyway, with Mother Baby-snatcher out of the way, Rampion was free to go to Eugene. She waited by his bedside every day and sang lullaby to him. He says it was the worst time in his life. He dreamt that he was lost in some forest with nothing to eat but rocks and berries and that the one thing that kept him safe was the sound of Rampions voice.

It's such a cute story! She got soooo lucky. Seriously, Eugene is a great guy. Their wedding is next week in Kings Park. I've been invited! But I'm not so sure about the theme. Apparently it's Happily Ever After. How do you dress up for a theme like that? I am not dressing up in some frilly princess outfit That was sooo last century.

I'm sure I'll figure something out. Anyway, I hope it works out for them, I really do.

Well, until next time Diary
<3 Ariel M