It's too bright.
Stepmother must have drawn the drapes open. I blink my eyes severally to get adjusted to the light, I try to sit up but I feel heavy, also I notice someone's sleeping by my bedside.
Father! He is back!
I roughly shake him with excitement. Father, Father.
The sleepy figure wakes up and stares at me in suprise.
She's awake, yelling he taps against the wall and nearly suffocates me in a hug.
I push and strain against him. Finally he reluctantly lets me go.
Who are you and where is my father?
Oh dear!! Why is that goddamn healer taking too long. He matches forward and taps the wall again.
What is he doing? He is weird. That's when I notice he is actually weird.
You look funny.
He turns and looks at me, opens his mouth but closes it again.
Why do you look funny? Did you eat something weird? Why are your ears are pointy? Pointing at his ears.
He grimaces and drags his hands through his hair as if he wanted to rip it off. Then he faces a wall and starts banging his head against the wall.
Yep, that is one weird cookie
I stare at him a little while before dissolving into giggles. You are so funny. Hahahaha
My laughter is caught short when the door is slammed. I look up and notice more weird looking people had entered my room, before I can say anything, a lady with kind eyes starts to poke me and check my eyes like a doctor.
Owww, that hurt.
She had pricked me with something. After staring at me for what seems like an eternity, she looks emotional.
She goes off to weird cookie by the side and they discussed in hushed tones.
I turn and some flowers catch my attention and they are so pretty, colourful and with a lot of glitter designs on them.
Wait what! Glitter!!
I properly look around me for the first time and I notice this room is very weird. It looked like something out of a storybook. There were vines draped beautifully across the walls. Sparkly flowers adorned every corner and there were tree stumps designed into chairs and tables, even the bed I was lying on as pretty as it was, was still a tree.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
They rush to me.
I want to see my father now now.
I notice them looking at each other and shaking their heads. Before they could say anything, I dash out the room.
I race down what seems like a trail in the woods, aligned by the prettiest cottages. But I was in no mood to marvel at the splendor.
Father, Father!
Father!!!!
I am running and screaming with all of my lungs. I notice someone was chasing me. I run even faster. I do not notice an unevenness in the ground and I am sent sprawling.
Someone picks me up and dusts me off, hefting me on his shoulder he carries me.
Leave me alone, I want to see my father. Let me go. I bite and scratch but to no avail, he doesn't act like he felt a thing.
I start crying. Whimpering and calling my father.
Finally, he sets me down on another tree stump. By this time, I already had snot running down my nose.
I… want … to … see … my father. I say this in between hiccups.
You will, you will okay little wife.
I nod and gradually start to calm down.
I look up and meet steely grey eyes staring back at me. He kisses my forehead.
Its okay little wife.
I pull back with a frown, all my sadness gone with the wind like a wisp of smoke.
Ewwwwwwwww , yak, ack ewww. I make disgusted sounds.
That's disgusting. I am not even 5 and you are so oldddddd. Besides I am already going to marry someone else, his name is Jin and we paint watercolours together on Saturdays. He is my bestest friend in the whole world and I will marry him.
Me.. your wife… So…. Eck, Ack. I pretend to vomit. Shoo shoo, you old man.
I stand up and he is looking at me slack jaw.
What a mad man. He thinks I married to him, like I would ever leave my prince charming for such an old weird looking man.
I start going towards the door, when I catch myself in a mirror.
What… the… actual… crud!!!