Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters except for the ones that you have never heard of in the movie or the books. This story has been written after the first book. I have not read 'Edge of Reason' and therefore this is my version of what happened after the first book.

The story of Bridget Jones - Doomed to failure

Bridget Jones never really expected to spend Christmas evening, outside, in the freezing cold, while it was snowing, wearing only small knickers and a cardigan, cuddling and snogging Mark Darcy until the early hours of the morning. Of course Bridget had fantasised about 'the perfect man' and a special moment they would share, almost like a fairytale. Each one was more unbelievable then the last but Christmas evening for Miss Jones, tragic spinster and lunatic, turned out to be the most surreal; it definitely took home the award! She described it in her diary as 'a miracle' and 'more magical then Cinderella'. Of course there is always something lurking in the corners, just ready to pop out at you at the most unexpected moments, completely ruining your perfect life and leaving you depressed and possibly suicidal.

Bridget expected something to go wrong as it always did in her life with anything that seemed to be going right but this was too much of a fantasy for her to dwell on what could be the death of it so she put it to the back of her mind and just enjoyed herself. Silly silly Miss Jones. Someone should tell her that these things do not just disappear.

For normal couples, the shadow lurking in the corner finds it's way to their bright light at least a couple of weeks after the 'miracle'. We all know that Mark and Bridget are hardly 'the normal couple', Mark being a top barrister who fights in the streets and through restaurant windows, wears a reindeer jumper and was married to a cruel raced Japanese woman. There is then Bridget who is a lunatic, over weight, a bit of an alcoholic, chain smoker, gullible and an embarrassing public speaker. They hardly make the perfect couple but their hearts are in the right place so who knows what could happen?