One more day and they will come.

I stare out the window, sad.

One more day and they will come.

I say this each day willing for it to be true, but days have passed, months, years.

One more day and they will come.

It’s been thirty years to be exact.

One more day and they will come.

No.

In one more day they will not come.

I will not wait any longer.

I wait until the soilders switch out, and once the new soilder is left alone I drop one of my pans down the side of the castle.

I don’t know how but I managed to have perfect aim, hitting the unexpected soilder right in the head.

“Yes!” I yell with a croaky voice and immediately covered my mouth in embarrassment. I haven’t spoken in awhile.

I ran down the stairs with a gun I found under my mothers pillow, I didn’t know how to use it, but it felt like a good bluff.

I pushed against the door, locked. I knew it was going to be locked but I was hoping that maybe just this once it wasn’t.

I pointed the gun at the lock and pulled the trigger.

I flinched back wards. Nothing happened. Pulled the trigger again. Nothing.

What?

“ Why aren’t you working” I mutter under my breath as I flip the gun around in my hand trying to figure out how to use it.

I found a switch on the side and flipped it, and pulled the….

I screamed and swiveled my head upwards to see a bullet hole in the roof.

That could have ended poorly.

I pointed the gun at the lock and pulled the trigger. It didn’t work. Uh…

Oh!

I flipped the switch and shot the handle. The door swung open. Ha! Take that mother.

I stepped slowly over the soilder, and into the spikey green stuff that lined the ground.

I always thought that it would hurt, that’s why mother always wears shoes. I look at the ground and it takes a second for me to figure out what felt wrong.

It’s so itchy!

I hop along the grass onto roots that came up above the ground. I stood for a good minute until I figured out that the root of the tree was poking my feet. I looked around and finally found a smooth rock to jump onto.

Phew. That’s better.

I did it.

Let’s get as far as possible from this tower.