| The Story of Paula & Isobel Paula was a timid girl with long brown hair and dark eyes. Isobel was outgoing with deep blue eyes and fair hair. One day while Paula was playing with her toys, Isobel came to her house. Isobel immediately took the toy Paula was playing with, and claimed it as her own. Ofcourse Paula was furious, so she clenched her fist and hit Isobel in the head (I mean, she had every right to!). With a hurt forehead, Isobel retaliated and threw the toy she was playing with, at Paula. As the years passed by, Paula and Isobel didn't speak a word to one another, and the tension was so thick that their parents were no longer close friends like thay had been years before. When Paula and Isobel reached their late thirties, they had established families and lived side by side in small cottages. Paula and Isobel warned their children never to play with the kids who lived next door. They gave no reason, but their children complied with their parents' wishes. One morning while Paula was out shopping, Isobel and her family decided that half of Paula's property did in fact belong to them (although their was no written proof), so they knocked down the fence to Paula's yard, and took over a quarter of her land. When Paula came home from shopping she was furious to find that some of her yard (which legally belonged to her) was now occupied by Isobel's family. Paula decided that she had had enough, so late that evening she moved the fence back to where it had been, and she regained her territory. The next morning while Paula was dropping her kids at school, Isobel dug up the fence once again, and took over half of Paula's yard. When Paula arrived home, she was furious, and she decided to take Isobel to court to end the long dispute. In court, the Judge unfailry decided that Isobel had the right to invade Paula's front yard since her ancestors had once settled there in the Middle Ages. Paula was ordered to move out of her house, along with her husband and family, and move into a mobile home at the bottom of the hill. As Isobel and Paula's children grew up, they learned never to associate with the other, and the cycle rolled on from generation to generation. And that is the story of Paula and Isobel. |