A modern fairy tale

For an English project, was quite fun to do.

Once upon a time there was a great wolf, who lived in the city. He was very successful, very strong, very clever and very rich. All of these things are important because living in the big, wild and untamed city can be extremely dangerous at times. He owned all of the latest things, HD 42inch plasma televisions, 4 cars, a motorcyle (though he never used these due to the traffic of the inner city and the fact that he never left the city), suits from Saville Row, anything you can think of he could afford it. But despite all of this he wasn't happy, and couldn't remember ever been happy. Even though he was regarded by most other wolves as the most successful in the city and they regarded him with eyes of green. Even though he was looked upon by most of the girls with eyes that were hungry.
But this did not bother the wolf; he only had eyes for one girl. He was sure that if he had her then he would be happy. The wolf didn’t know her name, so he just called her Little Red Hood (on account of the red sports coat she always wore, with the hood up). The great wolf knew that Little Red Hood had to walk through a very wild and untamed area of the city at night to visit her Grandma; this was the key to his plan. He thought that because he was so big and strong that the girl would want him to walk her to Grandma’s so that she felt safe. With this in mind he strolled up to the girl on the threshold of the ghetto and said: “I’ve watched you before and I know you have to walk through a very dangerous place, would you like me to accompany you?”
The girl looked astounded “Bugger off! You pervert! Why have you been watching me?” She replied, for she was a modern girl and well aware of dangers and how to combat them. And after saying this she began walking off.
Now it was the wolf’s turn to be astounded, he stood gaping as she walked off. After a few steps the girl turned around and looked at him, he thought that maybe all hope was not lost. This however was proven to be false as the girl shouted a warning: “And be careful on your way back Mr Wolf, down that path there is drug addicts who have dirty needles and down the other path there is a gang with knives. Choose carefully.”
The wolf, heart broken and in no mood for dangerous adventures had called a taxi to take him home. Already his broken heart had cost him, and it was going to cost him a lot more too. Every night for a week he went back to the same spot on the threshold and never once did he get to cross the threshold with her. After 7 days of trying he was driven to despair! He started missing work because he didn’t want to get out of bed, he stopped eating because he was always love sick, he stopped exercising because he had no motivation and he stopped thinking because it hurt so much to think. A woman in love with him had once remarked to him: “What nice nails you have!”
“All the better to grasp opportunities with.” He replied. His nails were now dirty and weak.
“What big shoulders you have!”
“Indeed, they can carry the weight of the world with ease.” They were now struggling to carry the weight of his downcast head.
“What calculating eyes you have!”
“They help me see opportunities.” They now saw nothing due to been constantly clouded over and filled with tears.
“What big nostrils you have!”
“The better to smell the success with.” Now all they smelt was his own body odour due to not showering. And all that those big ears were hearing now was power ballads. The wolf was indeed broken. On the 30th day of been heart broken he was fired from work, on the 31st he was evicted from his penthouse and on the 32nd day of heart ache he finally got to cross the threshold. Though not with Little Red Riding Hood, he crossed it on his own as he had to live on the streets in the ghetto due to been fired from his job and evcited from his luxury penthouse. At first Mr Wolf was in dismay over this and struggled to even feed himself. After a few weeks of this Mr Wolf was actually begining to resemble a wolf. Then an amazing thing happened, a man who he had seen sleeping in the park bushes across from him approached. He had locked eyes with this man many times but never knew what to say to him and so never spoke. The man offered Mr Wolf some bread as he said: "Me and some others are building a boat to sail away from the city, would you like to join us?"
"Yes, very much so, that sounds like a wonderful idea." Exclaimed Mr Wolf in reply.
The next day his new friend led him away from the city. It took ever so long to get out of the city but when they finally did and entered a forest, which led down to the river, Mr Wolf was happy, genuinely happy for the first time he could remember. As the sharp rays of golden sunlight pierced the green canopy above and the gentle breeze slightly lifted his knotted, unkempt hair Mr Wolf realised that it was adventure that he had been longing for all along, a real adventure into the unknown and he had finally found it. He had let fall all of the weights and pressures of city living, money was just paper and expensive gadgets and goods were nothing except distractions, that took his attention away from his real desires. With this realisation in mind, along with his new friends he eventually set sail into the unknown wearing the remnants of a suit from Saville Row and genuine smile.