(Pyramus and Thisbe: Image Source)
I think the story of Pyramus and Thisbe is a classic that I could spin off. I would want to either make it to where they'd never seen each other and then finally meet and then don't like each other and go home OR, tragically, one of them does not get to die and is instead married off to the person of their parent's choice. That person could, potentially, be their actual true love.
Okay so, for the first scenario, I want the girl to be really annoying and young, but she's pretending to be mature for a play and the guy just happens to hear her through the fence (it's set in modern times and the boy's family just moved in). He responds to her and she just goes along with it because why not? Then the guy gets really interested in her and asks to meet her at the park two streets over. She agrees to meet him on Saturday and they both go inside. Saturday afternoon, the girl goes to the park with her babysitter who's just a year older than the guy. While the little girl is playing on the slide, the boy walks up and sees the sitter watching the kid. He mistakes her for the girl he talked to and tries to hit on her. Her voice isn't the same so he apologizes and backs off only to run into a little girl that sounds an awful lot like the person he talked to two days ago.
Bewildered, he turns around and goes home.
For the second scenario, I would make her live and the boy die. She would find his body and try to kill herself but someone saves her and takes her home. Eventually, she ends up in a mental hospital because she's crazy, trying to kill herself because of some boy she'd never actually met before, but she ends up falling for another inmate. They don't heal each other and neither gets out of the hospital but they're happier than they were. (this could also be done in a modern setting over FaceBook or something.)
This story is part of the Ovid's Metamorphoses unit. Story source: Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Tony Kline (2000).
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