YOU ARE NOT READY FOR WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ.

Weall remember the end of the famous fairy tale: Hansel and Gretel. Don’t we?

You know, when the witch living in her gingerbread cottage in the forest wants to eat the poor little children, starting with Gretel who, by chance, succeeds to get out of the oven, running away from this place for going back home and finding back their parents?

Well, you are now going to discover a new version of this tale and… make sure you are not ready for what you are about to read. 

So let’s go back to the moment they are running from the witch’s : Hansel and Gretel did not go back home. Forest was located closer to their school than to their home. So they ran, ran, and ran again, still quicker, still out of breath because they were thinking the witch was purchasing them all along their way. They did not turn back because they were too afraid to. They entered the first door that was at sight, they almost wrecked it because of fear that was eating them up.                                                                                                                 

They have been thinking for a few seconds that they were alone inside because one can say how late as soon as they sat, their back slumped onto the cold white wall smelling of old rotten school supplies.

But all of a sudden, they heard a silly young girl’s laughter. The light switched off by itself. The creepy atmosphere took place, and then… Silence.

A freaky silence, and that was it. 

“Gretel ? Where are you ?” 

No answer. Only silence, during at least ten or fifteen seconds, until a kind of freezing breeze tickled his neck. However, the room was dived into dark, so he could not see anything. 

Once again, he felt this tiny breeze blowing in his ear and in meantime, someone or something kicked him on the leg. 

“Wh-what is it !” he questioned out loud.

“Nobody. You are fool.”

He shivered. Who could it be ? he did not recognized the voice even though it was obvious this girl who was talking to him was his age ! 

“Where is my sister ?” he screamed, completely troubled. 

“Not here, actually. But if you agree to play with me, I swear I give her back to you.”                   

He thought for a second the sentence seemed suspect, strangely said, but the context was already weird enough so he forgot everything about it.

“Well, what do you want me to do ?” he asked with the slice of courage that remained in his brave soul. 

“Surprise me.” the girl spilled at him. And silence came back.

Hansel was lost. He was crying but no one could notice. He was on his own, trying to manage himself for he got an idea but nothing could happen in his mind. His brain was frozen so he was not able to think. 

He walked without knowing where to go and stumbled on something. He suddenly remembered he had some matches in his pocket so he switched on one of them and saw his sister mid-eaten by someone or something he ignored everything about. But at this accurate moment, he did not care about anything else than the corpse of his dear sister…

 

Marie-Lys GARNIER TC