THE MAGIC FLOWER
by Lifegirl aged ten
Mandy was ten and was very kind if you
got to know her, she was shy. She had long red hair and dark grey
eyes. Mandy only had one friend called Sophie who was the most
beautiful and kind girl in the whole school, she was the queen of
year six, black hair, long legs, and a dazzling smile that lit up her
light blue eyes.
Mandy was small for her age, not REALLY
small, just small. Sophie felt sorry for her when Mandy first came to
school because everybody picked on her. Sophie went over to her and
helped Mandy's way through the weeks, soon they became friends.
Mandie was walking home arm in arm with
Sophie after school one day when some boys came charging past
squashing some pretty flowers. Mandy squeaked with horror when she
saw the trampled flowers.
“What?” asked Sophie
“Those poor, poor little flowers!”
said Mandy running over to them.
Sophie sometimes got irritated when
Mandy fussed about a sapling that got squashed, or a plant that has
been knocked over, or anything like that, but she knew how much
plants meant to Mandy, so today, she would keep quiet and not
grumble.
Mandy knew a lot about plants, she had
learned most flowers names. Amongst the crushed flowers were poppies
and daffodils and snow drops but there was one flower she did not
recognise, it was rainbow coloured, splashes of red, orange, yellow,
green, blue, indigo and violet coloured it's petals.
“Sophie quick I think it's a new type
of flower!” she said excitedly.
Sophie came and crouched down beside
Mandy, she didn't see any difference. “Yeah cool, I think it's dead
now” said Sophie unenthusiastically.
“It won't die if we really care for
it, it shall survive” said Mandy
Mandy, picking up an empty yoghurt pot,
knew exactly how to take the flower out of the ground and not harm
it. She slowly and carefully lifted it out of the ground and placed
it in the yoghurt pot.
When they got home the girls ran to
Mandy's green house. Entering the greenhouse was like stepping into a
different world “Planttopia”, or at least that's what the girls
called it. Plants and flowers of all colours filled the greenhouse.
The girls found a perfect place for Mandy's little flower.
Over the next few days Mandy fussed
over the rainbow flower giving it water and special flower food each
morning. One morning Mandy looked at the flower, it was better, it
was actually better! She gave a whoop, brought out her mobile phone
and emailed Sophie to tell her.
Sophie's reply wasn't a celebration,
she didn't care about such a weedy little flower but she still
congratulated Mandy “Great, yeah, good for you” emailed Sophie
half heartedly.
After school Mandy couldn't wait to
show Sophie. They ran to the green house making their way in and out
of winding bushes and plants and flowers until they reached the
pretty little flower and it's rainbow colours. It's leaves were
healthy and it looked up at them as if to say “thank you”. The
little flower looked so strong that it seemed to have been made of
bamboo but also so delicate that it seemed to need to be placed on a
pillow in a glass case.
Mandy beamed down at it “I like it so
much that I want to keep it on me at all times, not just look at it
when I get home from school” she said
“Well, we could make a little belt
and strap a plastic cup to it, then you could carry it about” said
Sophie, doubting every word
“Yeah” said Mandy quietly “YEAH
WE COULD!” she said, now whooping with delight.
“We better get some leather” said
Sophie surprised that her plan worked
“Mum has some” said Mandy
“Great go and get it” said Sophie
“oh, and a plastic cup, scissors, and a needle and some thread”
“Right” said Mandy dashing off to
gather the supplies. About an hour later the girl had attached the
plastic cup to the leather belt. Mandy filled the cup with soil and
lifted the flower carefully and put it in the cup. “There, all
done. Now lets see if it fits”Sophie held out the belt to Mandy who
took it and slipped it on. “It fits! Oh, it's wonderful!” said
Mandie “Thank you Sophie”
“It was nothing” said Sophie
sounding pleased
The next day Mandy got up really early
and looked down at the green house Through it's many windows, she
could just make out her belt and the little rainbow flower.
When Mandy got to school she was
wearing her belt with the little rainbow flower
“Look at you!!!” said Sophie when
she saw Mandy “You look fabulous!!”
“Thanks but it's just a belt, it's
not like I'm wearing a wedding dress!” said Mandy giggling
In class Mandy put her rainbow flower
on her desk, when it was P.E she put her flower in her locker, and
when it was lunch time she talked to her flower. Finally, it was home
time, she and Sophie walked through the forest so that they could
spend time together before doing their homework. Sophie was in the
middle of telling Mandy about her new baby cousin when she suddenly
realised that Mandy was no longer besides her. She panicked “Mandy?
Mandy! MANDY!!! she called
“Over here” replied Mandy. Sophie
followed her voice and saw Mandy crouched over something on the
ground. “Mandy” said Sophie relieved “you didn't tell me that
you had stopped, I was all on my own!”
Mandy didn't reply she just stared at
something on the ground. When Sophie saw what Mandy was looking at
she didn't understand “Why are you so amazed by that plant?” she
asked.
Mandy looked up “The flower... it was
the flower...” Mandy said sounding astonished
“What about the flower?” asked
Sophie
“The flower... sparks... dead
plant... came alive” Mandy spluttered
Mandy managed to recover and told
Sophie everything “I saw a dying plant I ran over to it and tried
to make it better but I couldn't, and then the flower, it sparked and
the sparks fell only on that plant and the plant got better”
“Well you were either seeing things
or that flower is one of a kind” said Sophie “tomorrow after
school we'll go around the pond and any dead or dying plants we'll
try to make the flower work it's magic, OK”
“OK” said Mandy still a bit shaken.
Sophie put her arm around her “it's OK you were probably just
seeing things”
The next evening the girls walked
around the pond and found their first dead plant
“Perfect! Now we need to try some
things to make the flower work it's magic” said Sophie “if it has
any” she added
They tried touching the plant but that
didn't work but Sophie had an idea “Did you say anything that might
have made the flower do... it's thing?” Mandy thought and then said
“I did say 'plant please get well'” As soon as Mandy spoke the
little flower shot sparks all over the dead plant and the plant
started lifting it's tall leaves and got greener and greener and soon
it was a healthy tall green plant “Wow!! O.M.G what just
happened?!” said Sophie shocked “so you weren't seeing things”
“No I wasn't” Said Mandy glad to
know that she wasn't going crazy.
“Lets go try that plant” said
Sophie pointing at a shrivelled up lily. Mandy said the magic words
and the same thing happened, it got better
“We could get a job at the garden
centre and help all their plants” said Sophie.
And so, every evening after school, the
girls would go and help the garden centre and use the magic of the
little rainbow flower to cure all of their dying plants....and they
earned some pocket money too.
THE END
