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Supernatural Fairy Tales

Silverweed: Chapter 3, Episode 6– a serialized Little Red Riding Hood inspired dark fantasy

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 05:58 AM PST





Take These Goodies To Your Grandmother
Chapter 3 – Episode 6



The guestroom, which was freezing, had a large, white iron bed and one window that faced the driveway. As Aiden took a long breath, releasing it through sputtering lips, he sat on the pink and light blue handmade-looking quilt that covered the bed. The bed faced a white dresser and file cabinet. He didn't bother retrieving his laptop from his bag since he doubted the existence of internet service.

After a moment, he stood up and explored the room. He looked in the closet and opened the top drawer of the dresser, which looked like a mismatched sock drawer. He tried to open the file cabinet, but it was locked. He sat back down on the bed.

He felt homesick, missing everything and everyone. Opening his phone and falling backwards on the bed, he noticed Summer hadn't called. How had she reacted after arriving at his house and finding out that he had left on a trip with his mom? He closed his phone. Maybe she finally got the hint.

He pulled his folded notebook out of his coat pocket and flipped through it, stopping when he found the poem he had written on the airplane:

It was the only way; I had to be nasty and cold.
I feel as if I've lost myself and lost all control
I had to make certain my betrayal wasn't discreet
My heart hated, but my head decided deceit.
Trembling lips and heavy breaths did unfold.
Heat and anger caused the hurt hate to grow.
Freckled cheeks, soft vanilla hair, so sweet
Turned soured, wounded, ultimately beat
It was the only way…
I had no other choice but to be so brutally cold.
She wouldn't have understood anything but bold.
But afterwards something burned when I watched her weep.
I didn't mean to make the wound so bloody and deep.
Now Summer thinks I'm horrible, dirty, and low.
Wasn't it the only way?

Aiden threw the notebook across the room and balled up his fists over his eyes. Was this regret? He knew his reasons for doing what he'd done. After graduation, he wanted to leave Texas to travel around the country, perhaps even the world. It didn't fit into Summer's dream, her future plans that she had talked about since they had met. She wanted to get married, have three kids and a dog. Lately, she had even been planning Aiden's future: go to Texas A&M and then work for her dad after graduation.

Since they wanted different things, he had thought the time had come for them to go their separate ways. But every time he tried to bring it up, she said they could compromise, which he had interpreted as "hog tie". They'd needed time apart. They'd needed to break up, but he hadn't wanted to be the one to say the words.

He stood up and walked to the window. The wind whistled through the tiny openings around the frame. Although it was dusk, and the window was covered in old dirt, he could still make out the trees as they swayed almost continually.

His jacket was no match for the cold in the room, even with the noisy radiator trying to do its job. He went to the bed and, without bothering with the clean sheets, got under the quilt. From where he lay, he could see the notebook curled up on the floor like a wounded puppy, too afraid to make a move.

When he closed his eyes, he saw Summer's face and her expression after he had done what he thought he had to do. Summer had looked so shocked, almost dazed, and then she seemed to actually be in physical pain.

His head pounded, and an overwhelming sorrow caused his muscles to tighten. Now as he allowed everything to sink in, he understood what he had truly done; he had broken the heart of the one person he cared most about in the whole world.



To be continued…

Chapter 4 Episode 6 will be posted Dec. 17, 2010.

If you would you like to read the entire novel now, the eBook is available for the intro price of $0.99 until Jan. 1st. on Nook and Kindle.



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