Short Story : Black and White

Black and White


A gold butterfly with broken wings and wet eyes finally found a shelter. His heart pounding rapidly. He thought: "I cannot understand, why they are so wicked. What have we done?". Suddenly, an old white parrot came, he looked like an angel.

"I am an old friend of your mom. Don't be frightened". The parrot came closer and asked "Where is your brother?". The butterfly did not know how to tell him. He just said "He is dead. We were playing with the other caterpillars in the farm when a giant came and took us. I don't understand why he took us. Is it because we are different? But why are we different?".

"Hmm... Let me tell you about your mother. She was a black caterpillar, at that time, black was associated with evil and witch. Nobody would get along with her simply because of the color. She was outcasted from the colony. In her solitary life in the middle of the forest, she found your dad, a black caterpillar, he was alienated too. In short, they felt in love to each other and decided to live together.

Day by day, they transformed into a black butterflies. Yet, they were not accepted in their colony when they tried to get back. They were insulted and assaulted by another butterflies, and they left with the flowing blood.

They did not know where to go. At that time, I suggested they go deep into the forest, because there were a crow colony, they might help them find some food. However, there were no flower there, the crows ate carcass, but they couldn't. They wanted to get out from that colony, but it was too dangerous in that forest. The only way to survive or at least for a longer life was being in that place.

Your parents did not accustom to eat carcass, in two days, they were weakening. It was in a rainy evening, your dad had been breathless when your mom was about to give you a birth. Suddenly, an old crow came and said that she would grant your mom's wish in exchange with her life.

I though your mom will ask your dad's life, but she did not. She wanted all of her children to be the most beautiful caterpillar, she wanted all her children to be birth in the farm and being loved by all the creatures".

The gold caterpillar with tears running down his cheeks looked into the void and laughingly said "My parents died because of being hated, and my brother died because of being loved. What an irony! "I just want to be normal, like the other."

The parrot came closer and said "be calm! you are not alone. You can stay in my place if you would".

The gold butterfly went mad and said "I would take a revenge of my parents' death, but... I have to..  disguise". He flew away and flagellated himself. The parrot tried to hinder him from doing that, but he was late.

"Now, I am no longer different... I am a red butterfly..." the gold butterfly said that as his last words.

*****

Some young butterflies - white, yellow,  red, blue, and... black butterflies- were flying happily by the flower garden with the old white parrot when suddenly a colony of butterflies assaulted him. The parrot would have been met his death if the young butterflies did not help him to escape. The colony of the butterfly was about to punish them when the king of butterfly came and set them free, then he asked the young butterflies to come to his place.

The king said "I was as big as you when that parrot came. At that time, he said that there were evil in our colony. He said that we should kill every black butterfly and alienated the black caterpillar before they transformed".

The young black butterfly nervously said "Don't kill me, I am not evil. I swear".

"Of course you are not. It just an old story. That is all not right. We realized that whatever our color is not connected with something bad. Don't judge a book by its cover.

Well, I will continue my story. At that time, We all believed what the parrot had said. We alienated two black caterpillars. When they had transformed into butterflies, and tried to come back in peace, we barbarically almost killed them. We were fooled. I heard that the butterflies were dead in the forest."

"We were sorry. We thought he was a good friend, because he looked like an angel", The young butterflies apologized. Then they asked the king "was that all the story of the parrot?"

"No!", the king answered it quickly "he is the only one in this forest who can talk to the giants. One day, we believed that he directed a giant to come here. The giant took something like a web. A few of us were caught, fortunately, most of us had successfully escaped by flying vertically, but I noticed 2 beautiful caterpillars were caught. I do not quite know what happened to them. Al I know, I can see clearly the giant went with the parrot in his left shoulder with an evil smiled.

I remember that several days ago, a canary came and said that both of the caterpillars were trapped in a strange place. The giant seemed to like them. He feed and took care of them. The giant was not bad, but her friend did. He asked the giant to kill the caterpillar".

*****

"John, look at this. I have said that you should not have allowed him to watch those kind of movies", said Mrs. Wright. "Why? what's the matter?" Mr. Wright answers. "take a look at this!", Mrs. Wright showed him a diary book. It is written:
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Dear diary...

I cannot forget that incident. I was so bad. Yesterday, Mr. Brown taught us about Metamorphoses, and as an example, he used butterfly... yes butterfly, he said that butterfly is transformation of a caterpillar. The phases are Eggs - Caterpillar - Cocoon - Butterfly. If I knew it earlier, I would not have done that terrible things.

Last month, Abigor, my best friend told me that there are two gold caterpillar in the back of the school. After I cough them, I put them in two glass jars with plants inside. However, I felt strange in the next day, my caterpillars seemed to be trapped in a web. I did not know what to do. Suddenly, Abigor pushed me to help the caterpillar. Nervously, I took it and tore the web, but my lovely caterpillar was dead.

I cried all the night. The next day, Abigor woke me up. He said that a butterfly killed my only-left-caterpillar. I was in a rage, the butterfly was on the ceiling. I tried hard to get it, I took a pillow and threw at it. The butterfly felt, but suddenly it flew away through the window. Abigor assured me that it will die soon, because I broke his wings.

Now I realized that Abigor has changed. He becomes rude. I think he is an evil-hearted angel. He is the one who killed my fishes, cat, and maybe my little sister. I rushed to the kitchen, took a knife, but when I was about to stab him, I was too slow. He flew away through the window and laughingly said "Just wait! I will come back"
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"She will be a good writer, she has the imagination. Anyway, it is almost impossible that Abigor can talk, he just copies what people said. Starting from now, I am the one who take care of Abigor. He is the only one I have after God took all of my family in that fire", Mr. Wright said as he caressed Abigor in his left shoulder.