5. Find a way out in France

Once I had arrived at Paris, while getting off my plane, I sighed with relief saying to myself, 'Safe at last.' The only thing I had noticed during the whole flight that was weird was that, again, the crows were following the plane. Is that how she gets there?

I may hate French food like I hated Chinese and Arabic food, but I decided to try and get used to that sort of stuff. You don't know whether to like something or not if you had not tried it at all. The reason I am speaking of this is because when I decided to stay at a hotel for a while I went to a restaurant. I have not been to France before so I'll just say that it was some random restaurant. That place gave me a good view of the Eiffel Tower which was a little close by.

Suddenly I noticed a menu lying on the table so I picked it up and looked at all the food that was available. This was mostly all the sort of stuff I do not eat but I tried to find one of the best food I could find. I had hoped that they had the food which I always enjoyed all my life. Immediately I had spotted some French fries; a whole bowl of them. It was not long until a waitress asked me what I would like to drink.

'Oh, I would like just water please?' I answered her.

'I'll have the same,' said a familiar soft voice.

I gasped and turned my head a little so as to not let the figure in front of me see my face. It was her again; the Corpse Bride! God, why does she do that all the time?

'Ok, Monsieur and Masquer,' said the waitress, and she walked off.

I slammed my menu on the table angrily and said to the Corpse Bride, 'How is it you keep magically appearing everywhere I go instantly?'

'Like I said before, darling,' the Corpse Bride answered, 'I have special powers.'

'Ok, why don't you show me how you do it then?' I asked.

'Alright,' replied the Corpse Bride, 'I will.'

We both stood up from our chairs and headed somewhere more clear for us. Tons of crows appeared behind the dead body and fluttered around her. When they moved away, the Corpse Bride was gone. I checked around the whole place to see where she had disappeared to. She was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly, I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around to view the Corpse Bride once again.

'Just like that,' she said.

'Oh, right,' I said.

'And let's go where I live,' she whispered loudly.

Suddenly I realised what she was trying to do. She was trying to take me to the Underworld - and when I say Underworld I don't mean the domain ruled by the God of that place: Hades, I mean the Land of the Dead.

'No!' I yelled, running away. 'Don't you dare!'

'But it's not all that bad!' The Corpse Bride seemed to have been lying in order to murder me or something. 'It won't hurt to live there once you're alive!'

'Oh, yes it would!' I shouted.

A while later, I was back at the random restaurant I was at before. I was glad nobody took my seat and I saw that the drinks had not yet arrived. So I sat down. And when I did, the waitress who asked for the drink brought the glasses of water to my table.

'Two glasses of water, just as explained,' she said.

'Thank you,' I replied.

I watched her wander off. After I saw her disappear through the crowds of people waiting for their lunch, I turned back to my table to spot that Corpse Bride AGAIN!

'Are you ready to finish our wedding,' she asked, 'and to come away with me to home?'

'No, and I won't ever be ready,' I said, rudely.

'How come you keep running away from me like that all the time?'

'Because you keep chasing me around the world just because you thought I just asked you to marry me when actually, it was a mistake.'

The Corpse Bride seemed to ignore what I had just explained. She said, 'So I would just like to ask how are you today?'

'Frightened!' I cried, making a whole lot of people watching our table.

'And why do you say so?' asked the Corpse Bride.

'Don't you even know why I'm frightened?' I said.

'No. But I'm kind of worried that you are.'

'Because of you!' I screamed.

Now everybody in the restaurant was watching our table. A waiter arrived at my table and asked, 'Is there a problem, Monsieur?'

'Yes,' I answered. 'This dead woman is my problem. Get her out of here!'

'Dead woman?' The waiter looked confused.

Anger was rising up into my whole body then. I stood up from my chair, pushing it far as I did so, and shouted throughout the restaurant, 'Oh, COME ON! Aren't any of you afraid?'

Nobody answered. They all just stared at me as if in confusion. I slowly turned my attention all the way back at the Corpse Bride. My life was then feeling like a horror film as I was doing this. Imagine horror music playing while this was going.

'They don't seem afraid,' the Corpse Bride remarked.

Instantly I screamed with rage and ran out of the restaurant and the hotel. But before leaving the hotel I packed up everything and headed all the way back to the airport. This time I had decided to move all the way to New York City; which seems to be the best city of the world.

It was too far to fly from France to America. So I booked for England, where I had stopped for a rest, then Ireland, then Greenland, then Alaska and finally in the United States of America.