Flutter by, Butterfly

• Artist: KaRoLiNe KaThArSiS
• Description: Short drama I had to write for school, its sad but I always liked it.
• Date: 08/23/2009
• Tags: flutter butter

Anna is a seven year old girl
Jake is a nine year old boy
Today Anna is going to go meet Jake down at the park. Once Anna and Jake meet up, they start exploring a path in the woods.
Anna – look Jake, there’s a butterfly!
Jake - who cares about a stupid butterfly, I wanna find some caterpillars!
Anna – butterflies were once caterpillars, there just prettier now.
Jake – No they`re not, they`re just bigger and can fly.
Anna walks over to look at the butterfly that’s perched on a nearby branch. It`s wings move up and down lazily, but they are dazzling. The wings of the butterfly are black and sapphire blue with tiny red specks on the bottom part of the wings.
Anna - She`s so pretty!
Jake – How do you know it`s a girl?
Anna – (talking very matter of factly) because no boy butterfly can be that pretty.
Jake – I wanna squish it!
Jake moves toward the butterfly his hand balled into a fist and rose above his head.
Anna - NO!
Jake swings down his fist as the butterfly starts to fly away, but he makes contact with the fragile bug in midair, and it falls to the ground.
Just as Jake is about to squish the poor bug it speaks…
Bug – If you don’t squish me I`ll give you three wishes!
Anna jumps up and pushes Jake over so he doesn’t squish the bug.
Bug - you will now have three wishes little girl.
Anna – I got three wishes!
Jake - that’s not fair! I was gonna squish it!
Anna – Jake I wish you`d be quiet.
Jake – whaddya-
Anna – Oh! My first wish! I used it up.
Jake – that was a pretty dumb wish.
Anna – It was an accident I didn`t mean to.
Jake – so what are you going to wish for now?
Anna – I don’t know…
Jake – well whatever, let`s get out of here it`s boring.
They follow the path back to the park and on the way out Jake sees another bug…
Jake – HA! I`m gonna squish this one!
Jake lifts his leg and stomps on the bug before Anna can say anything. He smiles as it`s crushed with a sickening crunch under his shoe.
Anna – Jake! You squished it! You`re as stupid as a donkey why did you do that!
Jake – (proudly) I wanted to!
Anna – Jake you`re so mean! I wish you were never born!
With that said Anna ran home. Later that night Anna got a call from Jakes mom, she asked Anna if she knew where Jake was and that he hadn`t come home after they went to the park.
Anna – (to herself) I wonder were Jake is, I left him at the park… I told him he was really mean after he squished that bug and then I told him…! I told him that I wish he was never born! Jake was never born! Oh no! What have I done!
Anna sat in her room and cried over Jake, she wished she had never met the little butterfly and that Jake was with her now.
Anna – (to herself) How could I wish Jake away like that, I wasn`t thinking and now he`s gone! …But wait! I only used up two wishes, I still have a third one left! I wish Jake was born!
The next day Anna went back to the park she looked around the playground for Jake, but he wasn`t there, finally she walked back their little path from the day before. There was Jake, standing as if nothing had happened. He was playing with something in his hand, which he hid when she walked over…
Jake – Hi.
Anna – Hi Jake, are you okay?
Jake – Ya I`m fine… but how do you know my name?
Anna – I know your name because you’re my friend Jake, remember?
Jake stood there staring at her blankly. He doesn`t remember me she realized, I can`t believe he doesn`t remember me. She stood there looking at him pleadingly, he looked down at the ground not being able to meet her eyes.
Anna turned and started to leave, tears began to flow down her face as she walked away, she paused a little way down and looked back at him. He stood there in the middle of the path, with the emerald leaves of the trees around him, light shined through them and made his blonde hair shine, she looked through blurry tears at what he was holding, it was a little blue and black butterfly flapping its wings lazily. She left hoping to never see Jake again.