The Story of Maximus
Once
upon a time…
In
a far off land, sat a boy. Young
to the eyes but ages old to the soul.
He sat watching out a window, a tiny little frame, where he saw birds
flying across the blue sky. He was
but 12 years old and already he had the makings of a beard. His shaggy blonde
hair hung in front of his eyes making him look scared and innocent. His frame was slender and his legs were
long.
Looking
up from the window he looked around his room, covered in paintings and drawings
of the things he liked the most. His
bed was made and his ground was covered in papers from everything he had
written. He had just gone to his
bed when he heard a singsong voice come from below his window, “Oh Maximus dear let down the
ladder.” Maximus rushed to the
window where he dropped down the ladder.
Waiting
and watching Maximus knew who was coming up but never forgot how beautiful she
was. Gold hair appeared first,
then the makings of a face, and later the rest of her body. Maximus sat watching as she climbed
into his tower and knew that he would never love anyone more than he loved
her. She smiled at him and his
heart broke.
“Maximus!”
She exclaimed with a gleeful smile, “Look what I brought for us.” She showed him her basket, which was
filled with a cherry and apple pie, with a container of milk and a couple of
sweeties. Maximus beamed at her
and they sat on his paper-covered floor and munched on pies and sweeties while
drinking in each other’s presence.
Everything
was as peaceful as could be until he heard the sounds of someone climbing the
tower. Maximus looked at the
beautiful girl beside him and saw that her expression matched his. She dove to pick up everything but just
as she started to move she saw a boot come through the window. Old dame Gothel climbed through the
window with her steel-toed boots and long black cape, looking as if to be the
most evil human being to ever walk the earth. Once inside the tower Gothel’s eyes seized the girl. Gothel hissed beneath her breath and
said to Maximus, “How dare you betray me, sneak a girl in here, now see what
happens to her.”
Gothel
walked towards the girl and seized her hair as if it were a rope. She led the girl to the window where
she looked at Maximus and exclaimed, “This will teach you and anyone else who
were to enter here, a lesson.” The
girl who was sobbing into her hands repeated, “No please, no.” Maximus just sat there watching, as the
girl he loved was about to die.
Just
as Gothel was pushing the girl out of the window, Maximus leaped forward and
grabbed the girls hand. The force
of the push was too much though, and both went flying out the window. They wrapped themselves in each other’s
arms and fell together. They hit
the ground still wrapped in each other’s arms, where they would stay for the rest of eternity.
The End
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