Little red drifting hood

The little red drifting hood

    Once upon a time, there appeared a girl on meadows. She called herself ‘Little red riding hood’. She wondered why she was there. She looked here and there, up and down and left and right. There she found a basket. On basket it was written ‘For granny’.  Red suddenly recalled that her granny was long dead, but Red had nothing to do so she said, ‘Let there be a granny.’ And poof a small house appeared on the hill afar. Red said, ‘Here I come, granny.’  Red took the basket and danced and ran towards the hill.

      As she started to get close to the hill, meadow started to turn into deep forest. As she went close to the hill, forest became deeper. She said, ‘I didn’t see the forest, how come it appeared suddenly?’

   ‘It was always there.’ said the Owl, ‘You just ignored it.’

   ‘No, there was no forest and I am seeing it for first time.’ Shouted red

   ‘And who are you to tell me such thing? Go vanish.’

      Owl flew off just to vanish in the sky, after that Red sang and danced and kept walking towards the hill.

       But she stopped after sight of the trails of the blood on the way, a little farther she saw corpse of a bunny. It seemed to be eaten by some wild creature. Red was scared, yet curiosity was not letting her stay back. She went near corpse and carefully inspected it. Her inspection was interrupted by a pat on her shoulder, she turned to see pale ghost of the bunny.

            ‘You were supposed to protect me, why didn’t you?’ questioned the pale ghost

            ‘How come I could protect you?’ replied Red

            ‘I am dead because of you. You are responsible.’ Said the pale ghost and it kept repeating it

            Red held hands on her ears and started to run away from the ghost but ghost followed and kept saying same thing. Red cried, ‘Go away pale ghost, why such a ghost exists. Ghosts do not exist in my world. Go, vanish!’ and the ghost vanished in thin air. Red sighed and kept walking toward the hill. It was dark since sun was going down. It was hard to see anything in twilight since forest was dense. Red heard footsteps slowly approaching. She thought it must be air and kept walking and humming but footsteps were drawing near and now she got scared and started to panic. She held basket near her heart and started to run. She ran and ran till she stumbled upon a stone and fell to the ground. Tired and hurt she stayed down.  She heard footsteps slowly approaching. She heard them stop near her and she heard a voice,’ Open your eyes, I can’t harm you.’ She opened her eyes and saw a skinny, toothless and clawless lion. It took her to its cave and told her that she will be fine there since wolf won’t come there.

      ‘Wolf?’ she shouted in awe ‘but wolf does not exist in my world.’

      ‘It does and it rules this jungle.’ Sighed the lion, ’You made me powerless.’

       Lion started to cry, Red came out of cave confused, she said, ’toothless and clawless lion, you should not exist, go vanish.’ And poof lion vanished with its cave.

  Red kept walking, she was near the hill where the forest ended, near the end of the forest she got a feeling that someone was following her. She looked behind but no one was there, though it wasn’t hard to see since it was night of full moon. Red was scared and tired. She was walking as fast as she can. But then she heard someone running behind her and she ran for her life. But it caught her and whispered in her ears, ‘Don’t worry.’ And she was riding on a lightning fast antelope which took her out of the deep forest in seconds but it got her down from its back something grabbed it inside the forest and it never came back.

      But Red didn’t look behind to see the fate of antelope. She ran and ran towards the house and finally reached the door. She knocked it with her life.

      ‘Please, open the door.’ She cried

‘Who’s there?’ a lady replied in calm voice.

‘It is me.’ said the Red.

‘Me? Me do not exist, go away.’ Lady said.

‘It is me, how can’t I exist?’ Red panicked as she heard howling noises drawing near, ‘Please let me in or wolf will get me.’

 ‘No, you will get wolf in and it will kill granny, so go away.’ Lady said

 Red told herself,’ It would be great if I was powerful I could break the door.’ And poof she became strong and broke the door. As she got in she saw a crippled young woman sitting on wheelchair and a very old woman on her last moments sleeping on bed next to her.

    As red entered she smiled and said,’ See granny I am here.’ while looking at the old woman.

    ‘You made a mistake, you shouldn’t have done this.’ Young lady calmly said

   ‘Shut up, you don’t know, granny is dying and I am here with medicines.’ said Red while raising basket in front of the young woman.

   Young woman grabbed the basket and said, ‘ throw it, throw it away.’

But Red overpowered her and young woman fell from her chair, she started to crawl to get the basket but Red ran to other side of granny’s bed with basket, and she started to ridicule the young woman.

   Granny was looking at both very calmly. Red showed the basket to granny and said,’ See granny now you will be healthy.’ And red opened the basket.

      As Red opened the basket, a big bad wolf came out of it and started to devour the granny whole. Scared by this sight, Red stood in a corner. Young woman was crawling to go near wolf and save granny but she was helpless. In meantime, wolf finished granny, it looked behind and smiled at Red. It said,’ You did a good job.’ It winked and went inside the basket again.

  As it went in basket, everything vanished, the house, the hill, the forest everything. Just meadows left.

Then a girl appeared on the meadows. She called herself ‘Little red riding hood’. She wondered why she was there. She looked here and there, up and down and left and right. There she found a basket. On basket it was written ‘For granny’.