Chapter One
Scene: a forest of many trees. We see a young man walking through wearing circular glasses, a simple white tee shirt and blue jeans, and carrying a full backpack.
*Cheep Cheep Twitter*
He takes in a deep breath and thinks to himself, "Aaaah, Nature... the fresh air... the birds' songs...
The shadows of the leaves and trees dance all over him as he walks into the rising sun.
*Buzzz*
A bumblebee flutters over to a cluster of appleblossoms on the end of a branch on a tree on which also, black ants march slowly through the crevices of the tree bark in an organized line.
The appleblossoms are appleblossoming, attracting the bee to attend to its duties.
"Smells just like my shampoo." The boy thinks to himself, as a picture of his shampoo bottle forms in his mind. The brand, Shampoofy Foof, with the label advertising its natural appleblossom scent.
"BEE!" He audibly shouts in fright, with his mouth as big as his head. He jumps forward, flinging his backpack up, and off his right arm and circling around his left.
"BEEEEE!"
The birds, in fright, flock out of tree tops with such adrenaline that some manage to break out of the frame of their known universe known as the manga.
"What a loud appleblossom." The bee thinks, absent-minded and happily following the appleblossom, who is now running, like the birds, for his life.
*Gasp*
*Gasp*
[Sweatdrop]
Now we see a map of Autuhmn, the main character,'s small journey. We see his house, the school, and the forest between the two. Cars are going into the school's huge parking lot, and are driving on the left side of the road. There are labels marking the road, Parking Lot, Autuhmn's House, the Forest, and The School, with a side label pointing at it, noting "Bad for you."
What is shown is the frantic, winding route fo Autuhmn and the bee's trek, through the forest to school. Now, we see that Autuhmn is at top speed running on the sidewalk that runs in front of the school, where buses and cars are unloading students.
*Buzz Buzz Buzz*
The sound of the bee sends a surge of adrenaline and oxygen through Autuhmn's veins.
"Huh?"
There are two girls walking a few meters ahead of him. One is shorter than the other and has hair in tight waves, frizzy, wearing capris that are baggy, a hoody, and has many bee-themed key-chains on her backpack, like stuffed-animal bees. The other is taller and is wearing a shirt with sleeves that end at her elbows but droop way down, they look like wingy things. She has a skirt that reaches almost to her shoes, and her hair is done so that it comes down from a bun. If you didn't know any better, you'd think she's an heir to the British crown or something.
"That's what." The frizzy-haired girl says.
"Really?" The "princess" responds.
Autuhmn quickly skids to stop from abashing himself by blowing right past them.
*Scuurrrrrrr*
Flames leap up and back from his ankles skidding and singe the chasing bee.
"WaAaH!" The bee yells, and flies panickally up, up, up.
The shorter, frizzy-haired girl gasps and puts the palm of her fist to her cheek in concern, the taller covers her mouth to keep from laughing.
*chortle, chortle*
She can barely keep herself from bursting with laughter.
Autuhmn, now stopped, smiles nervously and scratches the back of his head with his right arm and giant sweatdrop begins to swell. The bee, on fire, plummets to the ground next to him.
Aukward Silence.
The "princess" puts her free arm over her stomach and starts shaking from the hilarity of it all.
Around the three, cars and busses continue to drop off students.
Autuhmn decides to break the silence. The sweatdrop is now as big as his head.
"Well, uh,
...you see."
The giant sweat drop splashes on the ground where the burnt bee landed next to his smoking feet.
"...out of nowhere, I saw a bee."
He sees the bee-themed keychains on the concerned girl's backpack. One is shaped like a heart and says "I heart bees".
Autuhmn gets an idea. He continues by saying, "And everyone knows that if..."
The concerned girl is about to burst into tears by the touching story.
"...a bee stings, it will die immediately-- I ran away from it--"
The girl breaks in, tearfully happy, "You were trying to save a life, the life of a bee, That's why you were running so fast?"
"Uhhhh, sorta." Autuhmn looks down at the soaked, burnt bee.
The girl runs up and pressing Autuhmn against her and streams her tears down Autuhmn's back.
Autuhmn can't breathe from the squeezing.
After a couple seconds of lungs under pressure, she lets go and Autuhmn lets out a big breath, and falls to his knees to catch it.
Mr. Bobbertinson, his Biology teacher, a very scary, big and burly man, but with gentle eyes and heart, has been watching the whole time.
"I would like to congratulate you on your superior knowledge of the bee, you get two gold stars today!"
(Mr. Bobbertinson has trouble realizing he teaches tenth grade, not kindergarten).
He holds up a book of story book size, entitled "The World of the Bee" and says, "This is what we'll be reading today."
"Students probably would complain about Mr. Bobbertinson, except that he's so scary to them, and that when gets done treating the students like little kids, they learn somethings anyway." Autuhmn thinks to himself.
...Chapter 2 coming Tuesday or earlier. |