Sorry it hasn't been updated in a while... I've been really busy!
Samantha's POV:
After all of that, we continued driving along. Mia looked pale. "Are you okay Mia?" I asked. She looked at me as if she could fall asleep on the spot, and nodded.
I was starting to get worried, yet I continued driving, keeping my eyes steadily on the road. All of a sudden, I heard a loud popping noise. Mia was alert now. "What was THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT" She screamed as we fell down a cliff.
Mia's POV:
We were falling straight down, for t least five minutes. We finally hit the ground and everything went dark. That was just the scariest experience of my life! And were did that cliff come from?! We had both been staring out at the road, mostly silent, thinking about that hotel. I could have sworn that the cliff was NOT there a minute before. Anyways, everything was black, and then I heard someone. "So, are you EVER planning on paying us our $500 for staying at our hotel for 10 nights?" Oh, great, the hotel lady again! I screamed! Then I woke up. "Whoa! Are you sure your okay Mia?" Samantha said with a concerned look on her face. "oh good, it was just a dream!" I said. Then, I explained my dream to Samantha, about the cliff and everything. "Well, the hotel lady part was a dream, but, we actually fell down that cliff!" I looked down. I was wearing a long, torn up dress. How did that happen? Samantha seemed to just notice her torn up dress too! "WHY ARE WE BOTH WEARING DRESSES!?" We yelled at the same time. "Because, you twos' other clothes were badly torn up after you fell into that pond of alligators over there." A gentle voice of an old lady said. "Now that your awake, would either of you like a cup of tea?" We turned around. A short, pale, older lady with white hair and gentle eyes was standing by a white with red polka dotted mushroom shaped cottage. In front of the cottage was a gum-drop table with two mushroom chairs. Far behind the cottage was a giant... SHOE! We were in the middle of a forest of giant green onions with broccoli trees. I rubbed my eyes. Where were we? But for some strange reason, I felt perfectly comfortable here. I had a feeling that we would be here for a while. And that was perfectly okay with me! I looked at Samantha hopefully, practically asking with my eyes "can we?" She nodded. although, for some reason, the giant shoe was really catching my eye. The old Woman couldn't get this super happy grin off her face. "I don't have company much!" She smiled, looking us up and down. I shrugged. And she just stood there, staring at us with this super happy look on her face for like, 10 minutes! Finally Samantha managed to get the word "Ummm..." out. Th lady seemed to snap back into reality. "Oh, oh! Um, sorry! Here, I'll go get you girl some tea... um, please, sit down! Make yourself comfortable." She said as she motioned us to the mushroom chairs.
Samantha's POV:
Mia seemed to be in a trance. I mean, she knew was going on, but she seemed to be living out her fantasy. How? I have NO idea! Anyways, something to me seemed a bit odd or suspicious. The old lady started walking towards the cottage. Then, I noticed the giant shoe behind the cottage. hmm... something seems really familiar here... "Oh, and I really like your cottage!" Mia called out. The old lady turned around. "Well, thank you Mia, but I actually live in that shoe back there. This is just my guest cottage.I rent it out like a hotel to make extra money." she said, then continued on into the cottage. Mia had this really perplexed look on her face. She lives in the shoe?! Wait, I knew something was odd here! The woman was now in the cottage pouring us some tea. My eyes got wide. "There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe" I said, almost in a trance. Mia looked at me, and then the woman through the window, and then at the giant shoe. "She had so many children she didn't know what to do..." Mia recited softly. I looked at her. There is just NO way, that SHE was the old woman who lived in a shoe! Where are all of the children? "She gave them some broth without any bread" I said. Suddenly, everything felt suspenseful. Mia looked very concerned. For some reason, this poem was making me think about my mother. I was found by wolf in the middle of an empty field when I was 4 years old. I've grown up with him and the other "Villains" since! Why would my own parent abandon me? When he found me, I had no memory either. Mia continued. "And whipped them all soundly and put them to..." Mia started tearing up.
Mia's POV:
For the first time ever, I looked at Samantha and didn't see her as Medusa. I saw her as a regular, ordinary person. For Medusa, she was actually surprisingly pretty. She had long, straight brown hair put into a neat pony tail with a streak of curly hair to the side of her face. She was fairly tall and was now wearing a not torn up dress. I still don't know how. She had big blue eyes and lightly tan skin. Then I remembered the story of Medusa. How she used to be the "prettiest girl in the world" but bragged about it so much that it was taken away from her. Maybe it wasn't taken away from her, but maybe people see of her what they expect to see of Medusa, even Medusa herself! So, maybe she just thinks that she is ugly, and doesn't brag, but really, it was never taken away from her in the first place. I also realized that I had many similar features to her, and that the old lady had called me "Mia". How did she know my name? That's when I recited the final line of the poem. "She whipped them all soundly and put them to..." and then suddenly, everything made sense. It was powerful enough to make me start to tear up. I didn't just have a brother. I had many brothers AND sisters! I am the daughter of the old woman who lived in a shoe, and when she "put us to bed" we lost our memory and somehow ended up in the middle of nowhere without any memory. Samantha is my sister! I ran up to her and hugged her. She seemed to feel awkward at first, but then, I could tell that she realized this too! "Medusa" I said. This seemed to take her by surprise. "Your not Medusa, your Samantha, a regular human!" She looked at her reflection in a nearby pond, and realized for the first time that, she always was a human! She seemed speech-less and looked at me and said "how did you realize this, when no one else did?"
"Because, that woman is our mom, and you are my sister. My sister is a human, not a monster." And though we did not mention to the lady that we knew that she was our mother, we all ate dinner as a family and stayed the night in the little mushroom cottage in the forest of green onions and broccoli next to the giant shoe in which an old lady lived, and used to care for all of her children.