The Witch in the Woods

Chapter 1: Hansle and Gretle

"Did you hear that?" I asked my Teghan, " Hear what?" Teghan replied. "the 'help me' noises coming from the woods" Teghan doesn't say anything. Teghan is my best friend and I could ask for a better one but today something tells me shes hiding something from me. " Teghan, please tell me" I beg." its nothing, Dylan. " No, its something" I reply. " Don't I tell you all my secrets?" I ask with a pleading voice. " If I tell you, your going to think I'm crazy" Teghan says. "I promise I wont" I reply " Fine Dylan, you win. There is this crazy myth that these exact woods are the home to two witches. Both witches try to get lost children to enter their homes. Once the children are inside , well no one knows for sure what happens but some say that the witches eat them. Others say that they make them their slaves and use them to test their spells. Either way, something bad happens to them." " Well I'm going back to my house, wanna come?" I aske Teghan a little over eager. "Sure, but are you going home cause you are scared of the witch?" Teghan asks curiously " No, not at all" I lie, I silently got on my bike and waite for Teghan to get on hers. We pedale our bikes all the way back to my house without saying a word, it was kind of awkward.

" So what do you want to do" Teghan asks as we go up to my tiny room "wanna play with Simba?" Simba is my little gray kitten I got for my birthday last year. After we played with Simba for a while Teghan's mom calles because she wantes Teghan to come home. After Teghan leaves, I get super bored, so I go to my bookshelf and I start looking through my books. I come across "Hansle and Gretle". "Hansel and Gretel" is a tall tale about 2 little siblings getting lost in the woods and finding a house made out of candy. They went inside the house, and after they ate a lot of candy a creepy witch came in the room and then tried to eat those poor little kids, but luckily the children escaped the house. That story reminded me of the conversation I had with Teghan near those creepy woods the one about the witch in the forest. All of a sudden I want to go into those creepy woods and save those poor kids lost in those woods, because I know somebody was calling for help. I decide not to tell my mom because then she will not let me go into the woods. I waite until morning because it is already getting dark to go anywhere.