Wishes

Little Red

and a little girl with a red cape...

A girl just a year younger than Jack happily skipped through the village... shoving everyone out of the way. Yes, she could be quite annoying.

Her name was Little Red Riding Hood. Well, that's what everyone called her. Since everybody called her by that, people forgot what her real name was. Ever since her first birthday, Little Red's grandmother made a new red cape for that spoiled child every year. Yet, Little Red had never met her granny before.

Yes, she was also spoiled. The plump girl skipped through the wintry weather, all bundled up and warm. Her sickly mother gave her a little task: bringing a snack from the village bakery to her granny in the woods, who needed the company. That's the real story. To tell the truth, that granny was a lot stronger than the mother herself!

So Little Red slammed her cottage door behind her and skipped all the way to the village. She was quite excited, for because of her mother's circumstances, she was barely able to go outside. Now, here was her chance.

Of course she thought this "adventure" would not be very big and daring. Of course she did not know what lay ahead of her.

As she skipped along, she thought of what adventures she could have without being confined at home. "Maybe I should run away," she thought aloud. "But then of course I can't just leave mother... oh, if only I had more adventure.

I wish..."