Found Wonders
Today is a lonely day. No one is around to play with, and it’s no fun at all. My name is Rose; I am currently a 4th grader attending Cahill Elementary school. It has been summer for about four days now and it seems I have been miserable since then. My Best friend isn’t here to spend time with me this summer because she went to Florida to visit her grandma. I don’t have that many friends. They think I’m weird and I don’t know how to have fun. That’s why I count on Anna the most. She doesn’t judge me by the way I look. This is why I wish she were here right now.
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(Knock, knock, knock) “Coming!” “Who is it, I replied” “honey I must have forgotten my keys on the kitchen table, can you open the door?” it was mother. I thought she had left to the grocery store 5 minutes ago. “I’ll go get them for you” As I opened the door to give my mother the keys the phone rang. I handed my mother her keys and rushed to the phone. It was Anna. She asked how I was doing and then quickly told me what her grandmother just did to her kitten. Then she said she had to go because they were going to some fancy restaurant for dinner because her mother desperately wanted to go. I hung up the phone at sat at the kitchen table. I thought why couldn’t I have any fun? Anna certainly sounded like she was. I finally decided to leave the house, even though I was going to be by myself that I would eventually stumble upon something that would keep my occupied. I grabbed my house keys and made sure the house was secured. I grabbed a piece of paper and wrote,
“Mother, I have gone out to the mystery field. Don’t worry I will be fine; if I don’t stumble across anything exciting I’ll come back home. Again DON’T WORRY. I need to have some fun, hope you understand. Be Back Later” XOXO ~ Rose
The “Mystery field” was the place that made my world seem to make sense. My world seemed to have meaning when I was at the mystery field. Anna and I go there all the time when we are mad or sad or feeling unusual. We go there to get away from all of the worries, to relax. We called it the mystery field because we have no solution to why it calms us. Why it makes us feel comfortable and relaxed. We also call it the Mystery field because we have found many of wonders here. Once we found a four-leaf clover and we still have it. We take it with us whenever we feel sad or we think our luck has been very bad. I finally reached the field and sat down in the grass, gazing upon the many wonders this place has. All of a sudden, I feel something crawling on me. I yelped and looked down at my hand and saw two beautifully colored caterpillars. I didn’t want to harm them for they may have been injured or as scared as I was. They stopped moving and froze and stared directly into my hazel eyes. The caterpillars weren’t as frightened as I though. After about 10 seconds they started to move again. I whispered “ I’m going to put you in my hand, ok? So that I can take a good look at you alright?” They stopped again, turned around and started to wiggle in the direction of my hand. I was very amazed! They understood me. I pulled my hand closer to my eyes so that I could examine them at better angles. I couldn’t really tell if they were both male or female or even one female the other male. So I suggested they were both boys, because I have not really spoken to any boys besides my father and the ones in my class, but they never respond to me anyways so this was my chance. I didn’t know how they were related, such as “friends” or “brothers” I also suggested they were brothers by the way the smaller one followed the bigger one. I named the smallest one Oscar and the bigger one Alphonse. Oscar was a very beautiful caterpillar. His colors were so luxurious. He had mixed colors or red, orange, yellow, purple. It looked like he had all of the colors of the rainbow all over his body. Alphonse on the other hand, has duller colors. He just has plain old colors of green, blue, and red. I rushed home safely carrying Oscar and Alphonse in my hand. I ran and ran as fast as I could. I tried not to squeeze my hand although I have to say it was a little hard to do this. I wanted to show my mom what I had found; I knew she had to be home by now.
When I finally reached home. I ran into the kitchen thinking that my mother may have been in there. “Mother!” “Mother!” “Look what I found” Mother thought that it was a crystal diamond by the way she replied, “I’m COMING!” We found each other in the living room and I slowly opened my hand. She got down close to see what I had inside. She squatted so low with this anxious little girl face, as if she was a 5-year-old girl opening a Christmas gift. Once my hand was fully flat, she saw Oscar and Alphonse. I could tell they had a questioned look. I knew they were wondering, “WHERE THE HECK ARE WE?” She stared at the two creatures squirming in my hand. She told me to put them into a jar if I wanted them to live any longer. My mother and I made a deal that if I took very good care of them that I was able to keep them. I walked up the stairs and into my room carrying the glass jar. I placed the jar on my work desk and sat on my bed and started to think.
The next day I got out of bed and went directly to see how Oscar and Alphonse were doing. The night before they went to bed with a whole leaf that I had found outside and thought they could have to eat and now it was gone. I quickly got dressed and took the jar with Oscar and Alphonse outside to start having some fun. First I taught them how to squiggle into letters. It was so amazing. It was like they understood me. I brought along a piece of paper and a pen to write with. I explained to them that I was going to teach them how to transform into letters and numbers. First I started with the alphabet. I drew a perfect A. I released the two caterpillars out of the jar and built a barrier so that they wouldn’t escape, but they were noble enough to stay. Alphonse squirmed onto the piece of paper and formed his body into the letter A. Then Oscar followed the lead of his older brother Alphonse. I repeated this technique with every letter and number, until they knew each number and letter very well. Both seemed to understand what they were doing. Now what I did next is something that was very shocking. I started say words such as: dog, cat, ham, etc. They spelt out each letter forming the word. I screamed for my mother and she came running out of the house with just her robe on. I showed her what I had taught them and what I discovered.
That night after dinner I started using the biggest words I knew to see if they could spell it out correctly. The hardest word I chose was technology. Oscar was the first one to show me he knew how to do this. I examined him very carefully. He moved quickly letter after letter spelling out, T-e-c-h-n-o-l-o-g-y. The next word was Catastrophic. It was Alphonse’s turn. C-a-t-a-s-t-r-o-p-h-i-c. He did it! they both did. I was so surprised. How they knew how to do this was a big mystery. I knew that I was going to figure out this mystery in a very unique way. I decided that even though they couldn’t speak that I knew they understood me and could just spell out every letter to answer my question.
I asked them the number one question on my mind, if they could answer this question I had a lot more to ask. I was so anxious I could barely say the question. I was finally able to relax and ask my question. I whispered to them “How did you guys get so smart?” For about 10 seconds there was no movement, until Alphonse started to spell something out. “W-e a-r-e v-e-r-y m-y-s-t-e-r-i-o-u-s c-r-e-a-t-u-r-e-s. W-e w-e-r-e b-o-r-n w-i-t-h h-u-m-a-n k-n-o-w-l-e-d-g-e, h-o-w w-e g-o-t i-t i-s a m-y-s-t-e-r-y t-o u-s t-o-o, w-e j-u-s-t u-n-d-e-r-s-t-a-n-d a-n-d t-r-y t-o l-i-v-e l-i-f-e h-i-d-i-n-g t-h-i-s s-e-c-r-e-t f-o-r i-f o-t-h-e-r-s k-n-o-w w-e w-i-l-l g-e-t t-h-r-o-w-n o-u-t o-f o-u-r v-i-l-l-a-g-e. W-e a-r-e v-e-r-y u-n-i-q-u-e g-i-f-t-s f-r-o-m g-o-d. I didn’t wan to ask any more questions Alphonse explained it all. I went to bed that night and dreamt about them.
It has been about 3 weeks now and I have grown completely close to Oscar and Alphonse. They never left my sight and I never left theirs. One day I crept over to their jar and they had seemed to become awfully strange. They weren’t the way they used to be. They were acting extremely unusual. I was concerned, were they okay? I shouted for mother. “MOM!” “COME HERE QUICK!” I thought that if they were sick or something I needed to get them immediate help. My mother was the one to tell. She ran up to my room as fast as she could and asked me what was the matter. “What!” “What’s wrong?” she asked. “The caterpillars, they, they,” She looked at the two caterpillars and stared deeply into their bug eyes. “They’re turning into butterflies,” my mother told me. “You need to let them go, they need to be in the environment they are used to. “I don’t want to, I want them to stay” “I know but they need to be where they are comfortable and able to transform. My mother and I argued. I finally agreed to let them go. I put them in the jar and brought them back to the mystery field. I cried, and cried with tears running down my face. I couldn’t let them go. Agreeing with my mother, I knew it was time to send them on their way. The caterpillars wiggled in her hand spelling out “g-o-o-d-b-y-e.”
