Displaced Fairytale

In the small town of Westonville, Texas, the local people were able to come to a complete agreement about two important topics. The first was that high school football was life. The second was that anybody who had anything to do with the town of Colombia, Texas, was an enemy.
For the coaches and players of the bearcat football team, life was good. Because they were a part of the Bearcat football team, they were like celebrities in the town of Westonville. In school, Bearcat players did not do very much actual school work, for teachers give them a huge break when it came to homework assignments and grades.
Just as in Westonville, in the town of Colombia, football was life. The whole town was a part of the Tiger football games, and if you were a part of the team, than you were a big deal. Colombia, which is located merely 10 miles East of Westonville, also had another similarity to its rival town, but just the opposite. If you were a resident of Columbia, then anybody who had anything to do with its neighboring town of Westonville was an enemy.
Because both towns had such a big interest in high school football, the two teams and towns had always been against each other. This tradition of Colombia and Westonville being complete rivals stems back from a very long time ago, in fact, nobody can remember a time when the two towns didn’t hate each other.
For high school junior John Lozitt, life could not get much better. The captain and quarterback of Westonville High School and a 4.0 student, John was basically a celebrity in his small town. For many Texas colleges, John was a much wanted recruit. In fact, many colleges were offering him full ride football scholarships.
One day John was driving to the town of Austin to go on a college tour of The University of Texas, one of the schools that was recruiting him. In order to get to Austin, John had to drive through Columbia. He made it through the town without any trouble, but just about five short minutes after passing through Columbia, he saw from a distance, a car stopped in the middle of the rode. Once he arrived at the car, John immediately recognized the person that the car belonged to, Sarah Tyler.
Sarah was a beautiful high school junior. Tall, with blonde hair and blue eyes, Sarah was the captain of the cheerleading team at Columbia high school. John had always noticed the beautiful girl whenever their schools played each other, but because of the huge rivalry between their towns, he never had the guts to go talk to her.
“Do you need any help,” John nervously said to the beautiful girl.
“Umm, yeah, sure…If it’s not any trouble for you,” Sarah replied. Just as John had recognized Sarah, she had recognized him.
John took a look at the engine and immediately saw that the situation was not good.
“I have bad news for you. You blew your engine. You are going to have to call a tow truck,” he told Sarah.
“Are you serious? Oh no, this is not good. I have to drive to Austin today,” replied Sarah.
“You are going to Austin today, what for? I am going to!”
“I have a tryout for the University of Texas cheerleading team, I can’t miss my tryout, what am I going to do? This cannot be happening”
“Hey, I can help you, I’m going there too, and you can come with me. As long as you don’t tell anybody that you are from Colombia,” John joked.
“Oh, thank you so much, really, this means so, so much to me!”
So off the two went, continuing the trip to Austin. The two had such a fun time together that they arranged to meet up once again, in private, so that no one would know they were hanging out. Both knew that their family members and friends would highly disapprove if they knew that they were hangning out with each other. However, they continued to meet up in secrecy for the next few months. Before they knew it, John and Sarah were in love. They loved everything about each other and had become very close. There was only one problem: Because each of their hometowns’s hated the other’s town so much, no one would approve of their courtship.
The two hid there love for each other for an entire year. They would sneak away from their friends and family a couple times a day to meet up and see each other. At this point, they were at the end of the senior year of high school and it would not be long until they would go on to college. Finally, Sarah was fed up with hiding her love for John.
“Look, we love each other, and that is all that matters. If our family and friends won’t accept that, than so be it, they don’t have to. We will make it just fine without them. I am sick of hiding the fact that I love you.”
“You are exactly right Sarah. Nobody is going to accept this, but I think I that we should elope. Come on, let’s go get married.”
John and Sarah went and got married, and sure enough, just as expected, when they told there families, they were in utter disbelief and disapproved of the marriage. Sarah’s family told her that she could no longer live with them because she married a person from Westonville. John’s family did the same.
Although John and Sarah were deeply saddened that their families could not accept the marriage, they tried to make the best of things. They moved to Austin to attend college. John became a big football star there, while Sarah enjoyed being a cheerleader for the school. They thought their families would eventually come around and accept what had happened, but to this day they have not spoken to either of their families. The good news is, John and Sarah are still just as in love as ever before!