Alternate Ending - Leap

Alternate Ending - ‘The Leap’

The farmhouse caught fire right around the stove, and the whole house got into it. The babysitter who was sleeping in the room downstairs immediately telephoned the parents and ran outside for help. The girl was already trapped by flames in upstairs bedroom. As soon as the girl’s parents arrived, they with the help of neighbors and volunteers drew the water from the pond trying to calm the fire. Both Mom and Dad tried their best to control the fire until the firefighters arrived at the scene. When firefighters were putting the extension ladder narrator’s dad immediately rushed on to it to save her daughter. He had no clue what he was doing and none of the firefighters could hold him back. As he was climbing up, the extension ladder broke in half and dad fell down on the ground. There was another emergency scene on the spot. While all this happened the girl was fast asleep in her bedroom not aware of such a big fire. Only the crackling sound of the broken ladder woke her up and she ran towards the stairs to go down but then she was shocked to see that there were no stairs and she could smell the wood burning. The girl got terrified and did not know where to go. She ran towards the window and looking down she saw the big crowd and the firetruck, neighbors running out of their houses with the buckets of water and blankets. Too scared and horrified the girl jumped off the window to reach her dad.

The narrator’s mom who at this time was by the side of her husband helping the crew to get him into the ambulance clearly saw her daughter jump off the window. The moment she saw her daughter fall down, she got into the old memories of the horrifying moments when she was in the midair and her hands could not meet her husband’s and how she managed to hang on to the braided metal that burnt her palms terribly, yet she survived. At the spur of the moment not missing a single breath she left her husband with the crowd and took a big leap to reach...