Red Riding hood

Red Riding Hood

Who is the wolf? I thought as I walked into the woods. Grandma always warned me, she used to tell me every day “Red, wear your cape before you leave the house! There’s a wolf in the loose, I don’t want you to get hurt.”

One day I woke up, and something hit my window. A rock I guess, I was frightened “What could it be?” Some guy popped out from the woods. His name was John, a guy who I fell in love with. He used to climb to my window on the nights, and we used to talk until the sunrise.

One day I woke up as usual, but there was something strange… Footprints, traces of the wolf. They were coming out from my window. Was John the wolf? I started searching for him, he was working in the woods. I told him we needed to talk. We went somewhere with more privacy, and I asked him. He wasn’t sure, he didn’t think so. He was confused, so he decided that in the next full moon I was going to tie him up in a tree. And that’s how it was, I tied him up in a tree that was very far away from the village. But something was strange. On the full moon he didn’t change. I changed. I am the wolf, I unconsciously ate my boyfriend. I was scared when I woke up. I panicked, I was wrong. I went through the woods, the deeper the better. I started to run far away from everything, crying my heart out. Noticing I was the beast everyone was scared of, even my grandmother, even me. But I suddenly fell, something hit me, an arrow. My grandma knew everything, she knew how to control me. She knew my weakness, silver arrows and my cape. My red cape, the one I used to hate it was the one who transformed me back into a human shape. I passed out…

I remembered in my dream when I was eating the love of my life, his blood running in my mouth. I suddenly woke up in my house. Sad and desperate, with many questions and doubts.  I asked my grandma and she told me about the cape, and my mother… the previous wolf.