A girl named Winnie lived in a small town named Treegap. She was a lonely and curious girl. The town contained a myriad of dark forests. In this wood was a spring which granted the drinker immortality. 

Winnie had escaped from her home and her parents, who were overprotective, and wandered amongst the trees when she saw a young man drinking from a spring. 

“Is that water good to drink?” Winnie asked after being acquainted with him. “I’m thirsty.”

“Oh, that. N-no it’s not,” the young man, named Jesse, replied. “You mustn’t drink from it. Comes right out of the ground. Probably pretty dirty.”

“But you drank some,” Winnie reminded him. 

Moments later Jesse’s family, the Tucks, came out of nowhere and decided to kidnap Winnie and take her away to their home. On the way there, the frightened girl spotted a man in a yellow suit standing by the road. At their house, Jesse along with his older brother Miles and their parents Mae and Tuck, explained to Winnie that if someone drank from the spring, they would be given immortality. They told her that they had drunk from the spring, not knowing about its condemnation. While telling Winnie about the everlasting water, a man was lurking in the bushes, listening to their conversation. It was the man in the yellow suit.

Later in the day, the strange man revealed himself to Winnie and the Tucks. He desired to make a fortune from the spring. It seemed like Mae had no other choice but to use violent force against him if they wished to keep the fountain a secret, so she wacked him over the head with her shotgun. Unfortunately for the Tucks, the mysterious man died and Mae was sent to prison. 

In prison, Winnie swapped places with Mae, who was supposed to be hanged. Since the Tuck mother was immortal, she couldn’t die, so if she were sent to the gallows, everybody would find out about the family’s immortality. After Mae’s jailbreak, Jesse gave Winnie some water from the spring. He stated that once she was old enough, perhaps 17 years old like him, she could drink the water and marry the forlorn young man. Winnie decided that if she ever wanted the water, she knew where to find it, so she generously gave her water to a toad she found. 

Over 60 years went by and the Tucks returned to Treegap and found the grave of Winnie, who had died two years earlier. The Tucks, especially Jesse, were heartbroken and drove down the road to leave Treegap. Some people might think being immortal is a blessing, but like Winnie, I think it would be a curse.