The Flower Of Midnight

• Shanmathy Jayakumar, Grade 4
• Short Story
• 2017

When the sun falls and the moon climbs up, the wind blows and you hear a lullaby flowing through the wind.
When midnight has come, the wind leads to the flower of midnight.
When the moon shines on the corner of the grand city, the flower starts to grow but now, the moon never shines on the corner of the city. There is only one midnight flower and it’s our job to keep it safe. Way past the crowd of the city lived two young children with their mum and dad. Their names were Paullina and Rachel. Paullina was a scientific girl and Rachel was a maths genius! When they heard about the flower, they scurried off. “Hang on a second, wait a minute; we need our parent’s permission.” Luckily Rachel remembered. After that, they just ran off like a blasting rocket.
As they explored the city, they realized that a farmer was looking worried. Have I mentioned that Paullina is brave? Well, she walked up to the farmer. While he was counting his sheep, Paullina interrupted his counting and asked what had happened. As he started to explain, he began to tremble. “M-m-m-y a-ani-mal-s r-an -a-w-way!” “What’s so bad about that?” “We’ll go and find them,” Rachel said. “There is still one BIG p-p-roblem,” he blabbered. “Well, what is it?” the two girls asked.
“They ran off to the flower of midnight! If they destroy the flower, midnight will never fall!” The two young girls ran off to the corner of the city. Too late, the flower, their heart. When they hoped in to their beds, they realised it was so bright. That’s when they remembered what the farmer had said. Midnight will never fall if the flower was destroyed. The girls had to find a solution! Then, Paullina said, “All flowers have a cycle. First you plant the seed, then it grows into a flower, and flowers have seeds in them, which gets carried away by the wind.” “It has been a long time for the wind to blow, so the seeds for the flower of midnight will be here, where the flower got destroyed.” “What are we waiting for?” “Let’s GO!!!” When they found a seed, they planted it and waited. “In my calculations, we need to wait for a fortnight until this flower grows,” Rachel said. After a fortnight, the flower had grown. Flying, funny flowers! The flower had grown! Then the two girls realised that they had grown a garden of midnight flowers! Today is a day of celebrating the flower of midnight at midnight! The end