(Just wanted to write this for fun)

Every morning, when the sun lights up the world, the world opens it’s eyes.

The trees bristle their leaves.

The flowers spread their petals.

The bees open their wings.

The children sit up in bed.

Once 8:00 hits, the rush begins. School starts, for everyone and everything. Yes, even flowers have to go to school.

I am a tree. Us trees are the teachers. The fields are the classrooms. We teach flowers about everything.

Math (Can we tell time by using the Sun?)

Science (Why do bees steal the flower nectar?)

Literature (What do the birds sing about? Let’s analyze it!)

Sometimes bees come and join our classes. Sometimes ladybugs buzz in and say hello. We are open to everything and everyone.

I dearly love teaching. It is the sunlight in my cloudstorm.

All of my students were beautiful and bright.

Well, until the drought came.

The sun slowly turned into a blazing fire.

The cloudless sky became our angry demon.

I tried to teach, but with zero water my brain couldn’t function. My roots pained me more than ever.

All my students did was whine and whine. One of my brightest lilies became silent. None of my desperate efforts paid off. She sat in silence.

She became the first to droop sideways.

I cried, my tears dampening my scalding trunk.

Dust continued to wrap our bodies like venomous snakes.

Days dragged on, nights lasted years.

One night, I woke to the sound of my two wonderful students. Why were they awake?

“I just feel like I can’t do this anymore.” Rose said “Our teacher acts like we’re whining about nothing. She keeps telling us it’ll be okay. It won’t!”

Sunflower nodded “Yes, exactly! How does she stand so tall every day? It’s like she has water hidden somewhere, I swear!”

Rose shook her head “It’s so unfair. Trees are so intimidating. They act like they know everything!”

Sunflower was lost in her thoughts.

“Uh, Sunflower?” Rose reached her leaf over and tugged at her petal.

Sunflower flicked her stem up “I was just thinking… did you see her tears when Lily died? She cried tears, made out of water! How?!”

“Trees must have secrets…” Rose said

“I wonder if we can take the water… I mean how harmful could it be?”

“Trees store water in their roots, for emergencies. Emergencies only.” My voice came out raspy and low.

My branches were frozen, as both flowers slowly turned in my direction, staring at me in horror.

“Oh my god, you’re awake-“ they said in unison.

“We’re so sorry!” Rose cried.

My branches started to shake with anger.

“We didn’t mean any of what we said- we are just hungry! Please don’t wake the others!”

“We just want to survive!” Begged Sunflower.

It was a hard task. Should I tell the others?

Should I let them be? How much could they do to me? They were just flowers.

Their words stung though.

Then, I had an idea. Revenge.

I quickly closed my eyes, and didn’t open them again until morning.

Next morning, I decided to share my water with everyone but Rose and Sunflower.

Those two were angry

“You shared none of your water with Lily, so you basically killed her! You murderer!” Rose shook.

All the other students were confused, but okay with it.

All of them gushed with happiness and told me they loved me.

I felt triumphant. Finally.

I slept in peace that night.

The next morning, the animals came.

Bees swarmed my leaves. Ripping them away.

Ladybugs gnarled at my bark.

A fox came out of nowhere and attacked my trunk, scratching at my wood.

I begged them to stop, but they didn’t.

Rose and Sunflower cackled in the back of the field.

“Ring around the Rosies…” A dark voice sang.

I was weak. The army was too big. The other trees were asleep.

“Ashes, ashes….”

I had no water left. Their words burned my heart.

I fell on my side. Left in blackness.

“We all fall down.”

The end.

(Kind of a twist, I know. Hope you like it though!)

(Also, in real life I really don’t think that a flock of animals could really kill a tree… but I am out of ideas unfortunately 😅😭 if you guys have any, let me know!)