Evelynn

When I was ten or eleven, I loved fairies. Loved them. So I wrote a bit about them. This is part of it, and it's cheesy, but hey, I was eleven. I left it alone for a few years, and now I'm slowly adding to it once again with my little sister, who has now reached the "fairy stage".

Prologue

ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a kingdom. There was an enormous castle in the center of the kingdom. A small distance from the castle stood a forest. The forest was filled with many creatures, and not all were good. Some were Evil.

Our story begins in that very forest, with a young woman running. Running as fast as she can to get away from what’s chasing her. She doesn’t know what it is, but she knows it is Evil. She is carrying a bundle in her arms. There is a house up ahead. She runs faster to try and reach it. She bangs on the door loudly, but no one answers. So she sets her precious bundle down on the doorstep. Then she bends down and gives the wrapped-up baby a kiss on her forehead. This is probably the last time that baby and mother will ever be together.

RRROOOAAARRR!

She hears a tremendous roar from the forest. She must lure the monster away from her baby. So she runs in the opposite direction of the house, back into the forest. The monster follows her, and the baby is safe. But the woman is not. Her wings become visible, and she lifts off the ground. But this does her no good. The Evil is still after her.

The Evil monster reaches her. No one knows what happened to the mother of the baby.

One

GIVE IT BACK! Please?” Evelynn tried to grab her shoe, but David held it out of her reach.

“David, I don’t want to be late for school again! Give it back!” Evelynn was starting to lose her temper.

“Come and get it then. Ha!” David ran out of the room.

Evelynn sighed. Being the youngest was tough. Sometimes she wished she were the oldest, like David, or second oldest, like Jenna, or even like Sal, who was a year older then her.

She walked out of the room after David. She knew it wouldn’t be too hard to find him. After all, there weren’t many rooms in the tiny cabin. There was a living room connected to the kitchen, and three bedrooms, one for the parents, one for the girls, Jenna and Evelynn, and one for the boys, David and Sal. She figured that David had gone into his room.

Evelynn opened the door to the boys’ room. She peered inside. It didn’t look like he was in there, so she went back out and shut the door. Why did David always have to pick on her? The only time he was nice was when he was ignoring her. And that wasn’t nice, either.

Evelynn slumped against the door and sighed. She could hear the stream through the open window. The stream! Of course. David would probably dip her shoe in the stream. She raced outside behind the house. She had never liked being outside alone—the forest scared her. She had the strangest dream every now and then of being chased by a monster. In her dream, she was wrapped in blankets. Then everything would stop. She would feel something on her forehead, and then a HUGE roar. Then she would always wake up, sometimes screaming.

There was David, leaned against a tree, a smug smile on his face. He was holding her dripping shoe. He held it out to her.

“Here,” he said. “I hope you like your birthday present.” Evelynn came up to David to take her shoe back, but he tossed it to the side, into the stream. It was like a sailboat, sailing swiftly down the stream. Evelynn ran after it, but David grabbed her and wouldn’t let go until her shoe was out of sight. When he let go, Evelynn tore after her lost footwear. She caught a glimpse of it, flowing swiftly around a bend. Evelynn followed the stream. There was her shoe, caught in some rocks. She leaped forward and grabbed it, triumphant. She looked up and saw that she was inside the forest.

Panic started to overtake her. Evelynn ran alongside the stream, back the way she’d come. Panting, she reached the cabin. The only thing she didn’t like about this cabin was that it was so close to the forest. She wrenched the door open and zoomed inside. She ran into Jenna.

“Ow!” cried Evelynn as she fell to the floor.

“Are you okay?” asked Jenna. She offered Evelynn her hand and pulled her up.

“Yeah, I’m fine. Sorry.” Evelynn dusted herself off a bit.

“Why were you in such a hurry? Was there something out there?” asked Jenna. She bent down to pick up her books that had been knocked out of her hands.

“I was trying to get my shoe back. The stream led me into the forest,” Evelynn replied. She held up her soggy shoe. “David dropped it in the stream—”

“On accident!” David protested.

“You threw it! How is that an accident?” Evelynn argued.

“David, hush. Eve, you’d better hurry and get off to school. You’ll be late. Your books are by the front door, and Sal is waiting for you,” said Jenna.

“Thanks, Jenna,” said Evelynn. “Bye!”

She ran to the door and crammed her books into a bag. Then she ran outside. Sal was waiting for her, as usual.