The Key

There was a little girl with long black hair and pale skin. It was in the middle of the winter and she was smiling. Her name was unknown, her home was never to be found and her parents didn’t exist. However, she was here. In the middle of the street talking to an old lady.

“Excuse me madam, can I ask you something?”

“Sure little girl, you can ask me anything you want.”

“Would you believe me, if I said, that I have key that can unlock all doors in heaven and in hell?”

Old lady looked at her with surprise and said:
”No honey. That kind of key just doesn’t exist.”

“But, would you believe me, if I said that I have the key, which can unlock all human hearts?”

“Sweetheart, I am sorry, but I just can’t believe, that this key can be real.”

Girl looked at her with sad eyes and said:
”So you wouldn’t believe me if I said, that I can unlock and tell story’s that haven’t been told yet?”

“No. Now I need to go. Have a nice day little girl.”

Lady went away, but girl stayed. She will stay here until the day, she will find the true person. Person who will believe her. So she stayed. She asked so many people, she lived through so many years, but no one believed her. Through summers and winters, she was still the same. But, she never lost her hope.

And then, she found her. She was just standing there and looking for stars in the middle of the day. She looked ordinary, but in her eyes, there was something that it was scary. She was outsider. No one liked her, no one talked to her. She was like sun in present of stars. Shinning the most, but most people did not appreciate her. She was there, and that was enough for them. But in her, there was light. And darkness.

Little girl went to her and asked her the same question she had asked for thousand people all over the world. And answer was correct.

“Of course I believe you. Because if you don’t believe in something, than that doesn’t exist. But as long, there is just one person that believes in anything, than that is real. And I am that person.”

Little girl smiled again after long years and looked her in the eyes.

“So you would believe me, if I said that I have the key that can unlock all doors in heaven and in hell? And that I will unlock with this key all doors in hell, unleashed monsters that are locked there and bring them into heaven, so they could destroy it all?”

But little girl didn’t stop there:

“And you would believe me, if I say that I can unlock all human hearts and show them what they did to me and this planet? You would believe me, if I say that I can unlock minds and tell you stories, that haven’t been told yet, because no writer has ever had the courage to write them down, because they are so horrible and cruel?”

“I would believe you, little girl. Now tell me, who are you?”

They both smiled and answer followed:

“I am that key, and because you believe in me, I am all yours.”

 

Reviews

[Samuel Dickens]

I find this a very imaginative and delightful story.