We ran through the crisp woods. The sun shown brightly between the oranges and reds. The leaves crunched beneath our feet. The air smelled of autumn, a sort of fragrant scent of the season. A smile grazed my face as we ran through the leaves that had once been up on the branches. For so long summer had heated the sweet and marry town of Minininie. The citizens were forced into their homes, the air conditioners blew nonstop. But now, the seasons had changed and the children frolicked in the piles and piles of freshly fallen leaves.
Robin and I had taken a stroll down the valley and into the woods. People had always warned us to never wander into the woods. "Mischievous things live in there" they had said, "nothing worth entering". But of course a story could not be written unless there was a little curiosity here and there. So Robin and I had decided to enter these so called "dangerous" woods, for we were young and stupid.
At first, all was well. We danced in the woods. We smiled in the woods. We laughed in the woods. Things couldn't have gone wrong. What was everyone so worried about? I had wondered. For the woods seemed to be full of rich and beautiful life. The sun glistening off of every petal, leaf, and fragment of anything its strong glares could reach. It reflected off my brown hair.
"Hello!" A high-pitched, yet cheery voice called.
"Who are you?" I asked the voice.
There was a burst of energy from my right side. It was brighter than the suns rays. And from the middle stood a girl. She had long silvery hair and small transparent wings. She was a fairy, but that was just mans creativity. Fairies are just doodles on a paper, weren't they? My mind whirled with questions.
"My name is Silver. Yours?" Silver smiled.
"Robin." Robin answered hesitantly.
"Eleanor." I said, just as hesitant as Robin.
"Well Eleanor and Robin, you have found me and I shall grant you each three wishes." Silver cooed.
"Wishes? Like a genie?" I asked.
"Oh dear, no! Genies aren't real, stop imagining." Silver stated. "Now, what do you two desire more then anything in the world?"
The thought struck me like lightening. I had never wanted anything. I had never had the power to get what I wanted. It was always what I needed that had come first, but now that I was thinking.
"I wish I could think of a wish." Robin thought aloud.
"I shall will your wish to life." Silver waved her wand.
"I wish I had a sandwich." Robin said immediately.
"I shall will your wish to life." Silver repeated.
A sandwich popped into Robins hands.
"No! I wish to take back my last wish." Robin said becoming frustrated.
"I shall will your wish to life." Silver repeated again.
The sandwich vanished.
"You have used all your wishes." Silver told Robin.
Robin sat on the leaves looking extremely angry. He grunted his breaths out and in as to anger the unresponsive Silver.
"I wish you would stop!" I shouted at him.
"I shall will your wish to life." Silver smirked.
Robin stopped grunting. In fact, he stopped breathing altogether. I watched horrified as his face became deep red.
"I wish he could breathe!" I said rather hastily.
"I shall will you wish to life." Silver said.
Robin gasped for air. He heaved his chest in and out and his red face began to transform into its original pale color. Now that he was okay I was quite enraged.
"You've cost us all our wishes!" I yelled angrily.
"We still have one." He protested.
"One is a very small amount, don't you think?" I said. "This fairy and her voodoo magic twists everything we say. We needed all the wishes we had and now you've lost them all!"
"Who even needs wishes anyway? They're completely childish and overrated." He argued. "I mean, I wish wishes didn't even exist." He said.
"I wish you didn't exist!" I spoke before I thought.
"I shall will you wish to life." Silver smiled cheekily.
Robin vanished from thin air. I gasped. I felt around the place where he had once stood, but nothing was there.
"No! I change my mind. I wish him back! I wish him back!" I turned to Silver.
"You have used all of your wishes. My job is complete. Ta ta!" She exited the same way she had arrived.
She left me standing in the woods. The woods that had once been full of life and cheer now seem dull and gray. The wind pierced through my white sweater. Soft and gentle tears ran down my cheeks. The sun had gone, the moon had come. Wet raindrops slid down my dark wet hair. The world seemed to move in slow motion. The life, the spirit, the fun was gone, replaced by a gaping hole of nothing. A hole I longed to fill. But the hole did not fill, but it grew. It grew and grew until I realized the fact that stared down at me. Robin was gone.
The End
