Behind the Gate

I stared at the rusty gate and looked over my right shoulder for the last time. The sky was grey and the forest had loads of trees with naked branches. The time was slowly ticking away while I waited for the woman. Suddenly she appeared next to me and asked if I was sure about my decision. I was, although it was a hard one to make but I felt it in my bones, I belonged over there but not here.
“Maddie, you realize that if you go through that gate there’s no turning back. There will be no one to bring you back, no matter how badly you want it.”

Maddie is a 16 year old girl. She loves reading and she would like to, more that anything, live in the fictional universe and get to know all the characters she loved. But there was a price to pay, She would never be able to return to her world ever again. That meant goodbye to her family and friends, goodbye to life as she knew it.