Thursday, August 1, 2013

Rose of Sharon Part 1

   It was an afternoon, a little girl was reading in the garden that has every type of flowers you can think of form lilies, roses, lavender, lilac, etc under her favorite tree, an oak tree. While reading she heard a soft, but sweet humming sounds coming form somewhere. She got up and follow the sound until she saw something flew past her like a road runner and almost fell over. Once she got her balance back right, she continue the hunt for the sound. "Hey, Samira what are you doing?" " Oh, hey Jahiem. I'm looking for a humming sound I heard while reading." "You know it might be a humming bird that you hear." "A what?" "A humming bird, it's called that because when it flap it's wings it sound like a hum." "Oh, what do it look like." "Well it's small and colorful with a long beak. Let follow the sound so you can it for yourself." "Oh, ok." The two continue on the hunt for the humming.
  "Avery, where were you when you heard the humming?" "I was sitting under the oak tree reading The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. Why you asked?" "I asked to see where you was and now we can go back where you was and listen for it again." "Oh, ok. You know my grandparents own a two acre and we might be in the middle of the land." "Well, that's a trip I'll do with a friend of mine." "Aw, Jahiem that's so sweet of you." "What can I say, that's what friends are for. Tell me how long we've been friends." You so silly. We've been friends since pre-k through now." "Yep, you right. That's make us friends for about nine years." "Wow, that's a long time of us being friends. Let's get back to finding that hummingbird." "Yeah that's a good idea." While they continue on the journey, they continue to talk until the reach the oak tree. Once they got to the oak they sat and listen for the hummingbird.
   "Jahiem, you hear that. It seem very close."  "Yeah, it do. It sound like it's coming from my right." "Yeah, it do. Let's go follow it." "Ok, let's see who can get that tree first." "You're on." "On your mark ,get set, go.!!!!!" "See, you can't beat me. I'm too quick for you." "Yeah, you're right about that. Wait, listen it's coming for your garden." "Oooh, I hear it too. Want to get closer?" "Yeah, come on." The two went through an opening to the garden following the stone path. Once the got there they seen so many hummingbirds along with butterflies. "Oh, Jahiem it's so pretty. I never image this in my life and you're so right about the humming birds. They're colorful and small, also the butterflies add to it too." "Yep, you're right about that. Well, it's getting dark and about time for dinner."
   "Yeah, you're right about that, plus I don't want to hear Cedric mouth when I walk in the door." "You know he's very protective of his baby sister since he's going to be a tenth grader." "I know that. You know that we have two older sibling that are twins, Aliyah and Jordan,." "Yeah, I remember them. What about them?" "They're went off to college, but told him to watch out for me, because I was always around you. They was so good at persuading our parent that they moved out the country and into the city but was willing to move if it was five miles from my grandparents, so we can be close to them. That's why we moved that day and didn't tell no one, but our grandparents.  I went crazy so i can at least spend holidays with my grandparents." "Wow, that's alot to hold in for the past two years. I understand, but that's to the extreme to do something like that. That's good you've made a fuss to get to spend holiday with your grandparents." "I have my grandparents on my dad side and ma side in the country. I'm at my grandparents on my dad sides, my grandparents on my ma side used to lived just past Dew Drop Store. My grandparent on my ma side passed away two years apart. Granddad Aaron past away in 2002 from heart arrhythmia and Grandma Charlotte passed away in 2004 from breast cancer." "Well that was a ten minutes walk, and you had the best of both world. No matter what your sister and brother say, I'll always be here for you. Always remember that." "Ok, I will."  "Let's get back to the front." "Ok." The two walk in silence until they reach her grandparent front door."Well, here you are. Good Night." "Good Night."


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