Little Red Headed Girl

Told to my little girl as a bedtime story, the fabled “Redheaded” people of the colorful forest. Made up in my weird mind, a story that both frightened, and excited my young audience.

The Adventures of the “Little Red Headed Girl”

Once upon a time there lived in a bright colored forest a peculiar people. They all had the brightest red hair, and wore the biggest smiles. They were happy little people living in the depths of this beautiful forest.

But within this very forest live a very tall and ugly giant. Every day the Giant would thump his big club feet all over that forest looking for food. He was a big mean, and ugly giant too, with no front teeth, except for the two fang teeth on either side of his mouth. He did not even know that the little red headed people existed, for he never saw them. The mommies and daddies told their young children over and over, to never, never, never play near the big mountain, because if the giant ever saw them, he would eat them up for his supper.

Well, as you might guess, one day, this little red headed girl, and her friend Bobby, went exploring through the woods. They pretended to be a knight, and a princess, and played their hearts out. Running and jumping, and climbing the tallest of trees. But while up on one of the highest limbs the little red headed girl saw the most magnificent mountain, it was covered with the brightest yellow sunflowers, and they looked large enough to climb onto, and take a nap on the soft looking pad inside the flower.

So down the tree she climbed, giggling all the way down. Bobby who was chasing a butterfly at the time asked what she was all excited about. When she told him about the mountain and the huge sunflowers, he was terrified. He warned her, No!... we can’t go near that mountain, the giant lives there, and he will eat us up if he sees us! But the little red headed girl just didn’t care, the mountain was so beautiful, and the sunflowers so tempting to climb, so off she skipped thru the woods to the clearing. The bright green grass was tall, and tickled her feet and legs as the skipped along toward the mountain. When she reached the base, she began to climb up the hill, looking back, she saw that Bobby was hiding in the tall grass, too afraid to go any further. She playfully called out to him, and said “Bobby is a scardy cat… Bobby is a scardy cat” she really didn’t know what a scardy cat was, but has always heard that when playing with other children.

It was near Lunch time, the hottest part of the day, and yet it seemed so cool in the midst of these huge flowers, the stem was as big around as her whole body, and the flower was larger than her house. The stem was rough, and kind of sticky, which made it really easy to climb up it to the flower. She had to do some pretty fancy climbing to get to the inside of the flower, but at last she did, and it was not a disappointment. The pad of the inside was just as soft as it looked. She lay against it, and felt like it just wrapped its soft arms around her. She was just about to call to Bobby when she heard it….

THUMP… THUMP… It seemed that the ground was shaking all of a sudden, and all at once, the little red headed girl felt a tinge of fear run down her spine, as all the warnings of the giant flooded her mind. THUMP… THUMP… the sound, and shaking kept getting closer. Then all of a sudden, her flower began to shake, back and forth, till she heard a snap, and the flower she was on began to float higher and higher into the air. Then she saw him, he was so big. His eyes were bright green, and he had this big dumb look on his face. But over all, he wasn’t the monster she had always been warned about. He was really just a kid, like her, but bigger.
He was just about to rip the flower apart to get its precious seed, when she caught his eye. He smiled really big, and squelched with a sigh of delight at what he had found. She was so scared, she just knew any moment, he was going to eat her. But instead he just picked her up gently, and put her in his top pocket, and took her home. He ran with such excitement.

Bobby just watched in horror. He just kept reminding himself, there was nothing he could have done. He watched until they were over the top of the mountain, and out of sight, then he ran as fast as he could back to the village to tell his folks.

There is more, maybe tomorrow.