Mercy is a little growing girl who happened to be hard-working. She is a well-cultured girl and has manners. Deep in her heart lies kindness, and she has the mind of giving freely to the needy. She came from an average home with a brother and two sisters. She is the second among the other two girls. This boy is their elder and dislikes giving his properties to people.
Mercy has a little problem, which happened to be the aspect of beauty. She is seen as a girl filled with ugliness. No one likes her, and she loves mingling with people. She only has a beautiful friend, but tend to take her as a friend since she is the only one who accepted who she is. Boys in her class ignored her anytime she is talking. This means they dislike her and her words.
She was still at the age of 16 and in her teens, she has known to be kind even though people dislike her. Meanwhile, there was a guy who always eyed her with her ugliness. The guy is also a nice guy with a kind heart. It was as if they were just in for each other. People and friends have been seeing this guy with the girl, and one way or the other try hard to convince this guy not to get attached to the girl. They went further to tell him that the girl is too ugly for a fine guy like him.
He responded that he did not know what is pushing him to the girl, but he loves this girl to the brim. He told those who were scolding him to leave the girl that, he saw what people and guys did not see in this girl. The boy happened to come from a well-known and reputable family. He knew that if he is done with his education and finally takes this Mercy to meet his parents, it will.be a disgrace to his family, but he has no choice.
Since they are still young, he started building Mercy to up. Although, he knew vividly that Mercy is beautiful in the heart, but not outside.
After their secondary school, they both went to the same university and behold, it was love all through. After their third year, he took Mercy home to meet his parents that he would like to settle down with her, but to his surprise, his parents rejected Mercy just because of her ugliness.
While his parents were out, Mercy took time to make her character known. She took pains to make the house look like paradise. She mobbed the whole house and clean up every corner of the house.
When they were gone to school, the parents were surprised to have seen their house glowing like the sun. They concluded that this alone cannot still convince them of the kind of girl their son is bringing to the house. So, the parents looked for a pretty girl who has no stains from head to toes. She sent for her son to come home from school, which he did. Unknowingly to him, t was a girl who his mum arranged for him. He was so annoyed, but could not react, just because it was his mum.
The girl in question did not know how to sweep and also do not know how to prepare common food. She was tested by his mum to prepare a dish for the house, but to her surprise, the soup was filled with salt. They were unable to eat the food just because of the lots of salt in it. So, getting to morning, period, she was supposed to sweep the surroundings and the house, but she was still on the bed until it was late in the morning before she was able to wake up.
She could not sweep, neither could she prepare breakfast for the house. This shows the laziness and lack of home training she has in her.
Her parents did not waste time before sending her back to where she came from. The parents again invited their son, but this time with Mercy. The boy was surprised, hearing that from her. So, he told mercy that his parents want to see them both. She did not believe initially, but cannot doubt his guy, who he has loved from secondary school.
They went home during the weekend when they were having nothing doing. This means they were not having classes and their school is not very far from home. So, they laid his parents to visit. After reaching the house, Mercy was like the ground should open for her to enter after seeing her guy's mum coming. The mum did not say a word but wanted to know the behaviour of Mercy. So, she asked Mercy to go to the kitchen to prepare food for the family, which she did. Within a few hours, food was ready, and the family went to the dining to eat. The mum was thinking the same will also happen, just like the girl who put lots of salt in the food. So, after tasting the food, she ate the food like never.
After eating, she sat Mercy down to know who taught her how to cook and to know all about her family. She explained vividly without missing words. She came from an average known family who happened to be so decent. Furthermore, she was trained to the brim and also was trained on how to take care of the home. Not only that, but she came from a Christian background. So, the boy's mum was convinced.
Very early in the morning, mercy waked up to clean up the house and made food for the family. When they woke up, they saw food in the dining, which got the boy's parents surprised and also convinced them more to accept their son to marry Mercy.
Finally, they were through from the University, where they both came out with good grades. To be sincere, the one who they saw to be ugly became beautiful.
Lesson: There is a fact you all need to know here, the true beauty is inside, while the beauty you always see outside may not be the real beauty but the outer beauty. Not all that glitter are gold, but the real hold is deep inside. So, we should choose between inner beauty and outer beauty.
Although, there is some outer beauty that is also beautiful inside, but is rare. The inside beauty can always remain beautiful forever, while the outer beauty can always fade in due time.
This is a prompt word by @JonicaBradley . Check her blog and follow the rules. The prompt word for this week is beauty .
A story with a nice logical flow to it and a good explanation of inner and outer beauty. I can't help feeling, however, that his parents liked Mercy purely for what she could do for both them and their son and not for her own intrinsic worth and value, although there is no doubt that she has exceptional inner beauty. I think what shines through here is the son's unfailing and unconditional love for Mercy, and I am so pleased for them both, as a reader, that they were able to have their union blessed, despite the initial rather judgemental approach of his parents and potentially their eventual approval being rooted in utility rather than personality. Perhaps it is because of the value set of what is painted as a rather traditional old-school family background, predicated on viewing women as worthy if they can meet the needs of others, that I am somewhat deterred by the use of the parents as a means to shine a light on Mercy's inner beauty? Either way, I understand the concepts within the constructs of the society within which you have placed your protagonist. Keep up the good work and most of all ...keep writing :-)