"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." ~ Neil Gaiman. AVA TROCELLI P.O.V The next three days were the longest of my life. When you'd written down your heart in a letter to a prince, you'd expect him to come riding your doorstep on a white horse and take you away to the castle where you'd live happily every after. Fairy tales were far simpler in books than they were in real life because Marcello didn't came. In fact, I hadn't seen him or heard from him in three days since I left him with the letter. I contemplated many scenarios that the letter fell forgotten on the floor, that he read it and decide it wasn't good enough an explanation or an apology, or that he felt betrayed about baby or it

