[ WP ] It was a tale told a hundred times , but this time , something unexpected happened .

Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl. Boy... murders girl? 
 
 *Not terribly original. Ooh, a dark and gritty twist, no one could have possibly seen that coming! * 
 
 Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy... realizes the reason he lost her is because he's still too immature to be in a serious relationship, and decides to get his own issues in order before he starts dating again. 
 
 *Booorring. * 
 
 Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy realizes that a lifetime of media has conditioned him to see this relationship as a prize to be won, rather than a commitment between two human beings, and that the real tests of a relationship begin after they get together. 
 
 *Boring, and pedagogical. That's a lecture, not a story. Learn to tell the difference. * 
 
 Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl, girl turns out to be an alien and abducts him back to her homeworld. 
 
 *Now you're just being childish. * 
 
 Boy expositions girl. Boy rising actions girl. Boy climaxes girl. Falling Action. Denouement. 
 
 *Ooh, stripping them naked. How kinky. Probably NSFW, though. * 
 
 Boy meets girl. Boy ponders a story without loss. Maybe they just hit it off. Maybe it just works. Maybe we understand that our fights, though real, are insignificant in the larger structure of our relationship. Maybe we stop being so obsessed with conflict. 
 
 *Boring. Insipid. Inane. * 
 
 Boy is a soul encased in a fragile shell of flesh and bone, seeing and understanding only what his senses tell him, his thoughts and emotions governed by the chemical impulses of flesh. Boy is alone. Girl is alone. We are all alone. We are burdened by the Pavlovian responses, by the subconscious impulses wired into us by our parents, by our peers, by our experiences, by our societies. We are apes trying to be something more. We respond to the mating urge in a method approved of by our peers, and we call that love. Boy gets girl. 
 
 *Simultaneously cynical and romantic. Smug. Masturbatory. * 
 
 Boy meets girl. Boy and girl see their relationship played out before in a hundred different iterations. Girl and boy contemplate the possibility of something genuinely unexpected, something utterly new. 
 
 *... And then? * 
 
 Boy escapes. Girl escapes. 
 
 *And then??? * 
 
 The End.
