Life Is A Jungle 🦁

Chapter 1: Escape!

9.45 am- I woke up to the sound of the peaceful humming of birds and the calming sound of leaves ruffling in the trees. As I gained strength, I got out of bed. My eyes were still blinded from a ray of sun, shining blissfully through the curtains. I put on my favourite pair of white socks and headed out to the kitchen to have breakfast. 

As I headed into the kitchen, my father was sitting at the kitchen bench, eating some breakfast he made himself. I grabbed some breakfast and began munching at the small dining table. Perhaps you don't know much about my father?

 He is the emporer of the jungle that we live in, yes we do live in an actual jungle (I'll explain why), He is actually half snake- half human (his upper body is a snake, his lower body is human). My father was cursed by another emporer for stealing my mother (that's why he is half snake), my father and I don't get along at all (he never wanted a child, and when my mother had me, he killed my mother, soon I will be next). So yeah, he is a bit on the grumpy side. I always dreamed of my mother still being alive. We could have run away from father together, we could have gone to where the other humans live and live safely there. But of course, that isn't a plan I can follow. As I said before, I'll explain why my father and I live in a jungle. 

Before, my used to live in a humungous village where all the other emperors lived. My mother was new to the town. She bumped into one of the other emperors in the village. The emperor introduced her to my father and the other emperors, my father fell in love with my mother straight away, she was extremely beautiful. 

One night, my father found my mother sitting outside at a park alone, he took her to his room when all the other emperors were asleep and you know, they.................... 

Ok so, the next morning the two didn't keep track of time and the emporer found my father and my mother walking out of my father's room. The other emperor became so furious that he put a curse on my father. Months later, I was delivered to my father once I was born from my mother. My father gave me a scar on my arm because he didn't think I was a beautiful baby, in fact, he hated me straight away. My father killed her after she gave me away. We set off to the jungle, which my father is now the emperor of. It's sad, isn't it?  

10.17- I finished breakfast, luckily without arguing with my father. I got dressed and did all the hygienic stuff. I then planned my escape! I have been wanting to escape for a long time now, it's finally time!!!! I packed my belongings in the biggest bag I could find in my room. I packed my precious items such as my mother's necklace that I found in my father's room, a photo of my mother, and my bracelet that my mother made me when I was a baby, plus my clothes etc. 

Once I finished packing, my heart started racing. It's finally time to escape this prison, I will never be happy here. I checked all the rooms to see where my father was, I found him reading a book in the living room. Great. I decided to go through the back of the house. There is a door there that I can escape through. I quietly as I could, tip-toed to the back of the house where the door was. I opened the door ever so carefully, making sure that my father couldn't hear anything. Once the door opened I quickly escaped. I ran through the jungle as fast as I could. My heart stopped racing, I felt freedom, I felt happiness, I felt amazing! I ran for a bit longer to make sure I had some distance before my father would go looking for me. I ended up in a massive meadow. I felt exhausted and a little hungry. I walked to a nearby tree and found all sorts of fruit hanging from it. I grabbed a few and stored them in my bag. I then had enough strength to do a bit more walking. Slowly I became more and more tired, so I found a stable tree and fell asleep on a rather strong branch and fell asleep. I could soon feel my legs waking up, and my body relaxing from all the walking and running. Ahhhhh..... so peaceful,  it was never peaceful back in the house with dad.