Sally and Lorinda

Six year old Princess Sally knocked on the bathroom door. "Holly!" she called. "Please come out. You've been in there for half an hour. I need to wash my hair." Eight year old Holly called back, "You can't use the shower. It's out of order." "How are you washing, then?" Sally asked. "I can hear water running." "I'm using the sink," Holly answered. Sally groaned and started up the stairs to the other bathroom. She had wanted so much to try out the new shower. When Sally reached the other bathroom, she rattled the handle and yelled," Is anybody in here?" "Yes," someone called back. Sally could hear her oldest sister, Princess Dolly. She was ten years old. Princess Polly was nine years old. "Do you need to wash your hair?" Dolly called. "Yes," Sally replied. "How did you know?" "Just guessed," Dolly answered. "Use the other bathroom." "I can't," Sally said. "The shower is out of order and Holly is washing her hair in the sink." "Go to Dove Brook to wait," Dolly suggested. Dove Brook was a pretty brook with doves flying around it. It was right next to Cave Terror. "Okay," Sally called back. Dove Brook sounded like a peaceful place to spend time. She walked to Dove Brook and sat down to wait until the one of the bathrooms was unoccuppied. Horrible laughter came from inside Cave Terror. Sally jumped and turned around just in time to see a witch go in. She was carrying a pretty mermaid with long black hair and a blue tail. Sally gasped. That mermaid was Lorinda! All of the witches were trying to put her in their brew to make it taste better. But Lorinda was too smart for them. This was the first time that she had actully been captured. Sally thought fast. She ran home and grabbed her sword. When she got back to Dove Brook she did the most bravest thing any princess would do. She went right into Cave Terror! Cave Terror was a dark, dark, place. Sally hid behind some extra cauldrons. She looked around her hiding spot. To her surprise, there was Lorinda! "Lorinda," Sally whispered. Lorinda turned her head. "Who is it?" she asked in a whisper. "It's Princess Sally," Sally whispered back. Lorinda smiled in relief. "Will you help me get out of here?" she asked, quietly. Sally nodded. Lorinda smiled again. "I'll distract them," Sally explained. "When they aren't looking, get out of here!" Lorinda nodded, nervously. "I hope it works," she whispered. Sally crawled into a cauldron and screamed. Then, as the witches came over quickly, Sally pulled the lid down and clutched her sword. As the witches bent over to look inside an empty cauldron, Lorinda crawled out of the cave. But one of the witches spotted her and yelled. "Our mermaid! After her!" They all started after Lorinda. Just then, Sally jumped out of the cauldron and whipped her sword around, cutting a witch badly. The witch howled and Sally scratched another. The other witch hid behind a cauldron, but Sally cut her, too. Their blood was grey. Sally heard a splash as Lorinda jumped into the Dove Brook. She turned around and raced back to the castle and didn't stop until she was safe in her bedroom. She told her father what happened and he said, "Thank you for rescuing Lorinda. You are my brave girl." So Lorinda and Sally were good friends and they lived happily ever after.

Copyright 1997 by Chantessy