"Give me the child."
"Sarah, beware. I have been generous up until now, but I can be
cruel."
"Generous? What have you done that's generous?"
"EVERYTHING! Everything that you have wanted I have done. You
asked for the child to be taken, I took him. you have coward before
me, I was frightening. I have re-ordered time. I have turn the world
upside down and I have done it all for you. I'm tired of living up
to your expetations of me. Is'nt that generous enough?"
Sarah gave him a cold stare.
"Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought
my way here to the castle, beyond the goblin city, to take back the
child that you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours, and
my-"
"Stop! Wait- look what I'm offering you, Sarah. Your dreams."
Now Sarah was stuck. Would she choose her family- or her dreams?
"I- I don't know!"
Black clouds formed around her as she started to hear screams.

~*~
Sarah jolted out of bed. Sweat trickled down her forehead and
her breathing was harsh.
Screams of frustration came from the other side of the room.
"Oh, baby! Don't cry, don't cry." Sarah said comfortly,
scooping up the baby and cradling him in her arms.
The baby started to calm down. Sarah walked Toby around the room.
Oh, man, I can't wait till I have kids on my own. Sarah
thought.

~*~
"Thank you so much for baby sitting Toby last night, Sarah. I
know what a pain in the neck he can be sometimes."
"Oh, no problem, Karen. Listen, I'm got to go to the park
this afternoon." Sarah said, grabbing her backpack that had art
supplies and one special thin red book in it.
"OOH! Sarah's got a date!" Karen taunted.
Sarah smiled. "Something like that." She said goodbye to her
stepmother, who turned out to be not that bad, and walked out the
door.

~*~
The now 16 year old ran down to the park. Once she got there,
she went onto the highest hill and sat on the flat rock that she
situated there. She grabbed her art book and pencils and stared to
draw the people down below her with no interruption. Everything was
perfect.

~*~
"YOU SLEPT WITH HER!!!! UGH!!! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE, YOU PILE
OF FILTH!!!!!" Sarah heard Karen scream as she santered up to the
front door.
Dad had another one of his affairs. she didn't understand why her
father acted the way he did. She also didn't understand why Karen
didn't divorce him.
Regretfully, Sarah walked into the house. She saw Toby on the
floor, crying his eyes out. He never liked it when his mommy and
daddy fight.
Poor thing. Sarah thought as she picked him up and brought him
upstairs.
Karen saw what Sarah did and silently thanked her. No 2 year old
needs to see this. No one does.

~*~
5 YEARS LATER..........
Sarah had the same dream over and over again, but what did it
mean?

~*~
She saw Karen and her father in custody court for children.
The judge saw that Toby goes with his moher, Karen.
"Oh, good! Now Sarah comes with me!" Sarah's dad said.
"No, Mr. Williams. Sarah is old enough to decide where
she wants to go." the judge said.
Her father kept saying to come with him. But she looked up at
Karen.
Sarah silently got up off her chair and went to stand by Karen.
Karen hugged her happily with tears running down her face.
After court her father called her a bitch. And that was the last
time she ever saw of her father.

~*~
Sarah cried. She hugged herself into a little ball on her bedroom
floor and cried.
Her father was dead. HER father.
He had been dead for two years. But his wife then, who they also
didn't know about, didn't tell them.
Now she was fatherless.
She had been for two years.
"I WISH THE GOBLIN KING WOULD COME AND TAKE ME AWAY RIGHT
NOW!"
And he did.


The End.