Chapter 7 Episode 7--charlottes escape

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHARLOTTE’S P.O.V.

CHARLOTTE’S ESCAPE

As I jumped, I closed my eyes tightly just so I wouldn’t see where I am going. Fear gripped me at this point and all I could do was pray for a safe landing. The distance from my window to the ground became too long. I looked through the woods and I couldn’t even see the ground, not even the clothes I has thrown down.

Like a fruit falling from it’s tree, I landed on the ground.

“Ahhh” I screamed as i saw the injury I had sustained. I fell on the sharp edge of a withered tree. “This must have been here for ages”. I said to myself as I looked at the little withered tree. Shutting my eyes, I tried to yank out a piece of the tree that was stuck in my legs. As soon as the stick was out blood gushed out like a fountain. I didn’t know what to do but sob. If not for this barbaric tradition, I wouldn’t be out here.

I bent my face over my knees and sobbed for what seems like the whole day. Every thought ran through my mind. My father, my bro