The Sunflower Among the Roses
One morning, all the flowers were busy chattering about the new family who bought the house at the center of the garden where they lived.
“I heard the father doesn’t like plants,” Ms. Tulip said with concern in her voice.
“Mr. Bee buzzed me this morning to say that there’s a boy in that family who buried a mouse that he killed at their old place’s garden and hits almost everything he sees with a slingshot. Mr. Bird was crying with a broken wing this morning, too,” Ms. Daisy shared with everyone.
“Apparently, there are two young girls in that family who enjoy plucking the petals from the flowers to use in their school projects,” Lady Butterly reported.
“That is not the most terrible news I’ve heard. Did you know that the mother only likes roses?” Ms. Daisy mumbled with a hint of pain in her voice.
When everyone seemed either dumbfounded or just didn’t hear her, she spoke louder, “In their old place, she had all the other flowers uprooted except the roses.”
Mrs. Darling, the mother runs a special flower shop that arranges bouquets of roses only. She grows the roses in her garden. However, she has a strange belief that other flowers will eat up the soil’s nutrients and there won’t be enough for the roses. That is why she has all of them removed.
“I don’t want to see any other flowers here tomorrow. Get rid of the rest today,” They heard her give the order to the gardener.
Before the gardener could come back with his tools, a fairy collected them and planted fake tulips and daisies in their stead.
“Help! Help! Please don’t leave me here with the roses.” Ms. Sunflower shouted. The fairy looked back and almost dropped Ms. Tulip and Ms. Daisy when she saw Ms. Sunflower.
“Is she with you? How come I didn’t see her earlier?” She asked them.
“We haven’t really seen her either. She’s so high up there and the roses surrounds her.” Ms. Daisy answered while tugging on the fairy’s arm, urging her to fly already.
True to Mrs. Darling’s word, only the roses remained, except the sunflower.
“I’m sorry, Ma’am. I can’t get to the sunflower without stepping on the roses. There’s no way in to where she is,” the gardener apologized to her.
When Valentine’s Day came and all the flower shops were very busy fulfilling orders, a very important person ordered a bouquet of roses with a sunflower as the focal piece. Mrs. Darling’s arranger was about to turn her down, but she interrupted her.
“We can do it”, she proudly declared. She called the gardener and told him to pluck the sunflower. “It should be easy now that most of the roses had already been harvested.”
There weren’t many roses left so it was easy to get to the sunflower and cut it by the stem. Ms. Sunflower cried but when she was already placed in the bouquet, she was glad to have made the recipient very happy.
“I guess I lived my life with all those roses for this moment,” she smiled her last smile.