Fairy Tales From Far Off Places
Rebekah Sechler
Grade 7
Once Upon a Time....
In a land called Sydia, lived a beautiful girl named Isabella. Her hair was a beautiful Raven color and fell just short of her bosom. Her eyes were a startling grey and her skin was a soft olive.
Isabella lived in a small cottage with her mother and aunt. Her mother, Alice, had a soft smile and warm eyes. It was inviting and wonderful. Her aunt, Charlotte, was young and full of energy and had a laugh that would tickle you pink. They were the life of any party.
Isabella, her mother, and her aunt ran a small shop in the village market. They sold an assortment of things such as clothes and quilts. Everyone would go there just to chat. Everyone would go to see Alice smile and hear Charlotte laugh. They would talk and talk.
Isabella’s family lived a modest life. They didn’t have a big house and their business didn’t make much money, but they lived. Nothing prepared them for what was to come.
Isabella was tending to the shop counter. when her mother turned the corner. Her smile lit up the room, but it faltered. She started to fall. Isabella ran up to her and caught her in her arms. Isabelle took her mother to the doctor, while Charlotte tended the shop.
The doctor was a friend and he told Charlotte and Isabella didn’t owe him anything. He said her mother had a very bad case of pneumonia. He said if they had not brought her sooner she would have died. He said she still might not live.
Many people came to visit her. They brought her flowers and wept tears. They prayed and held her close, not caring about the disease that riddled her body. They loved her. Charlotte and Isabella were with her all night and day. They never left her side. She hardly ever moved. Charlotte hardly ever stopped crying. She almost never ate and just sat there.
After a while Isabella went back to tend that shop corner. That shop corner where she watched her mother fall to her impending death. Her mother whose smile started a celebration. Her mother whose joy was on lit up even the darkest of corners. She started to cry; tears streaming down her face.
“Isabella! Come quick! Alice is stirring!” Charlotte yells running to Isabella, grabbing her by the arm.
“She is!” Isabella said running.
Alice woke up five minutes after they ran up.
“Where am I?” Alice said staring blankly.
“Alice!” Charlotte said jumping with joy. She hugged her and sang with happiness.
“Mum!” Isabella yells and hugs her.
“Isabella? Charlotte? Where am why can I not see.”
The doctor, who had been standing in the corner for this whole time, finally spoke up,
“Blindness is a side effect of pneumonia.”
“Blindness?” said Charlotte in disbelief, “Is it permanent?”
“Not always. However, it is most likely it will be permanent.”
“No!” said Isabella.
“Unfortunately, yes.”
For the next five months Isabella and Charlotte helped Alice around, and with her work. They didn’t think that she would ever be able to see again. Even though her sight was gone, her joy still lit her like a torch. She smiled and laughed and people sometimes forgot that she was blind. One day, Isabella was cleaning up and she heard a scream.
“Mother! Are you alright?” Isabella shouted alarmed.
“Isabella, get in here!”
“Coming Mother!”
“Isabella! Isabella! Your hair, it looks so beautiful! It has gotten so long!”
“Mother! You can see?”
“Yes! Yes!”
“Mother!”
“Isabella! It is so beautiful! The trees are so beautiful at this time of the year! Oh! I forgot, Charlotte! Charlotte!”
“What is it Alice, are you alright?”
“Yes Alice! I’m more than alright. I can see!”
“What!”
Charlotte runs in and Alice runs up to her. They hug and yell and laugh and smile.
“We’ve got to tell everyone!”
And they all lived happily ever after...
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