The great fall of the giant seemed to have awakened our six senses as I look down at Christina from above and shout with a matter of urgency. “Faster! Go down faster!”. With a mad rush, we keep going down the beanstalk knowing fully well that the king and his knights will also be on their way down, on our tail. It was nightfall by the time we start to reach the bottom as jumping leaf by leaf was a lot easier than trying to climb. As we reach the bottom, I see numerous people waiting for us down below. From my Aunt to the King of our land to Sir Barrett, Victor and Hansman and only one thing resonated In my ears. Home. I was finally home and never in a million years did I ever think I’ll be glad to be back here even with the creditors that awaited us. I wiped at the tears that threatened to roll down my cheeks as I jumped off the beanstalk. Immediately my feets hit the ground, My Aunt rushes over to me and hugs me ever so tightly. I, more than anything wanted to hug her just as m
As the beanstalk falls, I see the king who had also followed his knights down, fall but was rather lucky as he ended up landing on the body of the giant he killed, breaking his fall even though he is still quite scuffed.“You people are the worst!”. He fumed. “I welcome you into my home, bathe you, clothe you. I saw you as family as you were even allowed to feast and dine with me by my golden table!”. He turned to look at Sir Hansman and my Aunt. “I helped find and save those who you’d lost In my land and this is how you repay me?!”.“I should have known better than to help people who know nothing about kindness”. He ended as he spoke out of rage. Understandable rage because he didn’t seem to understand why we were doing this when he welcomed us in his land with so much generosity. But over my dead body would I let those fickle words of his move me to return Christina back to this man. This murderer. Only the lord knows what he would do to her for planning to escape in the first plac
Within a span of 30 days, Christina had fused a few items into gold as she couldn’t stop crying tears of joy over the littlest thing. Everything around here was a first for her so I completely understood why she couldn’t stop crying. Was it when she first held a puppy? Or when she first ate food that wasn’t giant flesh, you name it!. The first time It rained, she observed it’s droplets with sheer curiosity and when it landed on her skin, she freaked out thinking she was crying without her knowledge and that made her cry all the more. Everything overwhelmed her and I understood the feeling quite well as that was exactly how her island overwhelmed me too with it’s golden bedding, beautiful festivals, horses and soft beds. Sometimes it could be because she was extremely happy on our land and other times, it could be because she remembered the one eyed giant who was killed on her behalf. Nonetheless with the gold that was produced, she used it to pay all Aunt’s and I’s debt and moved
My Aunt, the king of our land and the knights were all invited to our wedding and I was nervous a well. “Stop being nervous”. Sir Victor said. “You are acting as if you don’t want to marry her anymore”. Sir Victor tired to face Christian, his baby boy in his arms. “Are you seeing your uncle, Christian?. Do t grow up to be like him.". He teased. Yeah that’s right. We finally got to see Sir Victor’s wife and son and might I add that his son looks nothing like him!. And on the topic of kids, what the night awaited Christina and I made me nervous too. I was nervous about everything. “Were you this nervous when you were getting married to your wife?”. I questioned Sir Victor. “No, not at all---“. Sir Victor started but his wife had interrupted with the truth, exposing that Sir Victor had developed his first asthma attack from his wedding and that if not for god’s interference, they would have postponed their wedding while he would have spent it at an hospital. That did a little trick
300 years later. “Wow Father, this is beautiful!”. Christina and I’s 40 years old son, Gerald exclaimed as he stared at the huge white –with a little touch of gold—skyrise apartment. Gerald is our first son and a sturdy business man. He’d taken interest in learning business immediately we’d moved to the city and I couldn’t be more proud to see my son excel do well in his choice of study.He Is currently married with a fine lady that works in his field of work and they have two beautiful girls, twin girls to be precise---Katherine and Katherina---“I really couldn’t agree less, father”. Miriam, our daughter chimed in. She was a spiltting image of Christina. From her long blonde hair to her green eyes. She’s our first and only daughter, the second born of the family and probably Christina’s favourite---although Christina always denies that she doesn’t have a favourite--- but it shows and we all know it too. Being an epitome of beauty just like her mother, she’d had different spouses
The little girl ran making little giggles as she ran deeper into the dark tunnel taking a turn by her left before cowering down and hiding behind a random box. “Merit”. A voice calls behind her startling her and making her scream as she threw her hands up to her mouth. She sighed in relief as she saw the black strands of her cousin, Donovan’s hair.Merit playfully punched his chest. “You scared me”. Donavan placed his index fingers on his lips. “Stay quiet”. Donovan peeped out of the box, he hid behind as he turned back to face Merit. “Where’s Heather?”. He asked. Heather is his sister. They’d decided to play hide and seek with little Merit and this time, Heather was “It”. Merit shook her head as she started giggling once more, her excitement taking the best of her. “I don’t know. Maybe I finally lost her this time”. Donovan moved back to hide behind the box as he heard footsteps walking into the tunnel. Merit squealed as she played with her hands. The mere excitement of getting c
Miss Penelope clapped her hands rounding up the students.”Okay people, let’s get going”. She called out with a oud voice as one by one the twenty students started loading the school bus. Miss Penelope was their history teacher and she had decided to take them on a field trip to a museum alongside Mr Alfred, their physics teacher. Miss Penelope’s reason for bringing Alfred along was because she thought it would be more cordially to have two adults with the kids rather than it just being her but Alfred’s reason for trudging along was to make passes at Penelope. “I swear to God if Mr Alfred dares to make me feel single on this trip,I’m going to kill him”. Daisy a goth with a heavy metal choker on her neck says with disgust. “That’s why you should change your appearance if you want to look presentable to guys”. Kira, a drop dead gorgeous beauty says to Daisy while clutching onto Phil, her boyfriend’s arms. “Don’t you agree babe?”“I do”. Phil replied. “Can you all just shut it. I’m t
“Here we are kids”. Miss Penelope said brimming with joy as the bus finally came to a stop at their destination. “Finally. Get off me”. Daisy said pushing Becky’s body away from hers as she made her way out of the bus. “Let’s try and stay in a single file, kids”. Miss Penelope adviced as they climbed down the bus one after the other, obeying her instructions. As Kira climbed down the bus with Phil by her side, she took a moment to look around her. She smiled as an amusement park grabbed her attention. “What’s the matter, baby?”. Phil questioned his eyes following the direction of her gaze. “It’s nothing”. She replied as they walked in along with the rest of the crowd. When they got in, Miss Penelope along side along side the curator, gave them a run down of each historical item they’d come to see. While Caleb, the geek looked interested and ready to learn, Kira appeared bored out of her mind. “Hey, isn’t this boring?”. Kira asked softly, whispering the words into Phil’s ears.“