A Day in the Life of: Gretel

My life is way different than a typical girl’s life. I have gone through things that may want to make some girls my age puke.  I want to start from the beginning. My brother Hansel and I were walking in the forest and we got so tired after a while. It felt as is our legs were going to fall off. We have been walking for many miles, and we got very hungry. At that very moment, we found this extraordinary house made out of the sweetest candies and the richest chocolates. We were so tired that we decided to go inside and have a bite. After 20 minutes we were stuffed and ready to go home, a baker woman came out of a door and screamed at us. She didn’t know who we were, but she was nice after she saw that we were children. Then she offered us some food. She fed us more and more, and she forced us to eat after a while. We stayed the night for many weeks because we had no other place to go. I noticed that Hansel was getting bigger and bigger by the days. One day, the baker woman called me to the basement and had me clean out this square cage. I didn’t know what it was for, so I did as I was told. The next second I was shoved into the cage, and the door shut behind me. As I turned around, the baker woman was gone. Then she brought Hansel down and put him in the oven. At first, Hansel thought he was cooking, but it was a goose leg in his back pocket. The second time, he was definitely cooking. Then the baker woman saw that he wasn’t cooking fast enough, so she went into the oven to see what was up. She pushed Hansel to the side, but Hansel then climbed out of the oven and closed the door. The baker woman was very perplexed. She told him to let her go, but Hansel unlocked my cage instead. After that, we ran up the stairs and left as soon as we could.

This is how I imagined the Candy House looked like. Tasty yet comfortable.

Hansel and I were walking and we approached these two parents looking for their 7 sons. They explained what happened to them, and how they turned the boys into 7 swallows. When I heard that part I needed to help them. I decided to ask Hansel if he wanted to go with me, so we could find the seven swallows and bring them home. Hansel hesitated but I persuaded him, and of course he came. We started our long journey to a mountain, very far away. We knew that we would have to take night stops so we prepared ourselves before hand. We knew that we were tired, and we knew that we had to stop at that very moment. We didn’t have much food, because we got hungry on the way so we ate it all. Hansel had a knife on him, so he went to go get some fruit and meat. I only will allow him to kill one animal, because it should feed us for plenty of days. He came back with a dead rabbit. We cooked it over the fire that we started and had leftovers. We cleaned up and went to bed after that. The next morning, Hansel wasn’t there when I woke up. When he did, he had blood all over his clothes and he brought a deer. He did this after I specifically told him not to hunt anymore. He did this for several days, but one night changed it all. It was late and he promised me he would stay with me tonight. Of course, he left and went to hunt. I heard a loud howl, like from a wolf or something. The next morning he didn’t come back. I started to get worried and I looked for him in the forest. I saw dead animals and rodents everywhere. I also found blood everywhere. I came to a lake and found Hansel there, dead. I couldn’t believe my eyes, he was shot and tortured. I never figured out why, but there was only one way this could happen. He had a bunch more hair on his body and his face looked different. He was a werewolf. His blood was still dropping out of his hairy werewolf body. Blood was flowing into the lake like a strand in a girl’s hair that is different than her natural hair. At that very moment I knew that I would have a different life, forever. 

Click here to hear the howl he made.

I have been walking forever, and I finally came to a small village with people happily running around. I was alone and hungry so I asked for food from this one woman that was outside of a market. She was a widow and she asked me if I was alone and I answered back “Yeah. My brother died the other day.” She pretty much let me into her home, and adopted me. Sort of. I stayed with her for a couple weeks, and I’m really happy here. Of course, I still miss Hansel but I’m happy that someone has actually taken me into their home. So, I went outside one day to go and play on the playground. There was the most handsome man out there that had the fullest lips, the bluest eyes, perfect hair, and he was kind of tall. He was the cutes guy I have ever seen in my whole entire life. There was one moment when he looked at me, and smiled. I was so, shocked but excited at the same time. After that day, I went to the playground every single day and saw him. One day he left the playground early, so I followed him home. As soon as he got there I waited until he got inside. I ran inside and hid into a corner while an old woman was cooking something into a very tall and wide pot. The young man came out of the room, and he had something that looked like a girl but I wasn’t sure. As soon as I saw who or what it really was, I literally screamed. It was a young girl almost my age, and she was dead. He grabbed a butcher’s knife and chopped off all of her arms, legs, and her head. My eyes wanted to fall off. He chopped her up, and put her in the pot the old woman was stirring. My jaw dropped, how could a young man that handsome eat young girls? This was horrible. Once the young man left the old woman told me to leave here and never come back. When I got out of the door, it was pouring rain and I had to go back to the widow’s house. I felt like I wanted to cry and I didn’t know what to think at that very moment. 

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I saw so many things in my life, but that will never leave my head, ever. I just didn’t know that so much could happen in a person’s life at once. It is really scary to be honest. I just didn’t notice how you can think someone is perfect, when they never were in the first place. So, now onto the next part of my amazing yet scary life. I went back to the village, and went to my “mom’s” house. I went into my bedroom and started to cry. Everything that has happened is all of my fault, I ruined everyone’s life. If it wasn’t for me, Hansel would be at home, not dead. I feel guilty, and depressed. I have no one anymore. Oh, I almost forgot. Did I tell you that I found all of the swallows and I freed them? Well, that happened. Where was I? So, I was crying and I heard a knock at my window. I looked up and it was the swallows. I opened the window very slowly, and they came into my room very fast. They told me that all of these problems occurred for a different reason. I had nothing to do with any of those terrible things that happened. The young man killing that little girl, my brother dying, and me being alone. This helped my mood a little, but Hansel is still dead and I can’t change that. The swallows answered most of my questions, so they left after that. I felt better honestly. So, there you have it. My life has been a great ride that is never ending. I think I am going to puke now.

Here are some links that you might be interested in.

Hansel's Favorite Candy Shop.

My Dress Store

My Parents Castle

Family Memories Below