THE BLUE BOTTLE
One night, Millie was up late reading in bed. She finished the book she was reading (The Story of Ferdinand) and looked over to her shelves to see what else she might read before she went to bed. Right there on her shelf was something she had never seen before. It was a blue bottle. She looked down into the bottle, but it was too dark inside to see anything. So she shook it. She heard a rattling sound. There was something inside! She turned the bottle upside down and shook it again, to see if anything would fall out. Something almost fell out and then it didn't. Whatever was inside was now stuck in the bottle's neck. Millie shook harder and harder. Finally, something small fell onto the floor. It was a crystal ball. An extremely shiny, exceptionally beautiful and extraordinarily brilliant. It emitted a light blue luminescence. She tries to grab the crystal ball but the ball starts rolling. Millie tries to grab it again but the ball, rolling at a fairly fast pace falls into a pit. She had even never noticed the pit before. She gets scared and thinks of abandoning her mission of grabbing the ball. But, then she reflects about her miserable life. She recalls the extremely bad treatment that she gets from her step mother. How she has been deprived from whatever she loved and liked. So she gets determined to follow the ball & get it. She thinks that if she dies she will meet her dead mother who loved her a lot. Tears rolled out of her eyes as she recalled the love and affection that her mother bestowed on her & she jumped into the pit. To her surprise, the pit leaded to an extremely beautiful path. A brick path with flower beds sowed on the pavements and clean surroundings. She starts searching for the crystal ball. As she moves forward she notices that the path is full of green grass with rows of flowers. Huge trees bearing mouth watering fruits. As she moves a few meters further, she enters into a new world altogether. A dreamland with green fruit laden trees, beautiful rivers, blue sky & birds chirping over her head. She gets bedazzled by this view.
She finds the crystal ball & grabs it. Suddenly everything around her changes the clean blue sky over her head transforms into an extremely black scary cloud laden one. The trees that were green dry out. The beautiful birds and animals vanished. Vultures & jackals appear instead. She gets scared and starts to cry. She turns back to run away. But as she turns back she hears a scary voice of a woman who says, “You can only escape from here at the cost of somebody’s blood. You will have to tell me the name of the person you hate most and I will kill that person and have his / her blood. If you will not do so than I will have killed you.”
Millie gets dumb. The voice shouts again, “Tell me the name of the person you hate most”, Out of instinct she tells the voice – “Ema” which is her step mother’s name. The voice says “I want to see why you hate her”, and all of a sudden a window opens in the trunk of one of the dried out trees. And all the instances of cruelty and ill treatments that her step mother EMA had done to her flash in it. The voice says, “This is good you will escape your death now and will even get rid of the person who gives you a lot of trouble and whom you hate so much & I shall also have my share of blood by killing her.”
To this Millie replies “please madam don’t kill my step mother” and she starts crying. The voice asks- “why do you want to put your life at stake for somebody who does not even treats you like a human beung.” She says “she is a very good woman. It is true that she shouts at me and beats me but she is the woman who takes care of her two little sons and also looks after my father. My father also likes her & I love my father. If she dies then who will look after her two little kids and also my father will loose the woman he has started to love now after my mother died.”
The voice starts shouting again – “Okay, I can leave her if you want but then I will have to kill you instead”. To this the girl replied “you can kill me if you want because no one cares for me & nobody will repent my death. And if I die I will get to meet my real mother up there in heaven. My real mother, who used to love me a lot, and I am sure she also misses me” Tears rolled out of her eyes again. “Kill me – kill me” she said crying.
Suddenly, the entire surroundings changed again & everything became even more beautiful and soothing than before. But, the girl continues to cry. An affectionate voice of a female calls her and asks her to stop crying. She looks up and finds a beautiful fairy, with wings, standing in front of her. The fairy hugs her and says “don’t cry, of all human beings, god loves you the most all and he wants you to work for him and become his fairy messenger. This is why he wanted to test you and your kindness. You have passed your test by putting your life at stake to save your step mother who has been so unkind to you.” Millie replies “I can’t do this as my step mother will beat me a lot if she will not find me in the house tomorrow morning.” The fairy starts laughing and says, “I have changed your step mother’s heart, she will start loving you from now on. And you will be there in the house the whole day. Only in the night you will go out & help the children who are unhappy and are suffering. You will make them happy. God cannot go everywhere by himself so he chooses people who will do his work by following his path and he has chosen you.” She agrees to do so. The fairy says that the moment you will put the crystal ball in your mouth you will be transformed into a fairy. Then you can go and carry on God’s work.
The fairy says this and disappears but she hears her voice again which says “your mother wants to meet you” & she sees her mother standing in front of her. She hugs her mother & starts crying. Her mother said “you are the chosen one. Work for others & spread happiness. You don’t know how soothing & relieving it is to make other’s happy. And always remember that I am with you.” Her mother says this and disappears. Then everything returns back to normal.
She wakes up next morning thinking that she had seen a dream. She finds that it’s already 11’O clock in the morning. She gets terrified at the thought of it. She was supposed to clean the house and wash the clothes by 12’O clock. She runs out of her room only to get surprised at the site of her step mother washing clothes. She runs to her & says “I m sorry mother, please don’t beat me. I don’t know how I continued to sleep and was not able to get up on time. Please give me two hours more & I will finish off all the work.”
But her mother smiles back & says, “why do you need to work when I am there. Go take bath and eat some food you must be hungry sweet heart.” She gets astonished, but suddenly remembers what all happened in the night. She runs back to her room and starts searching for the crystal ball. She finds it under her pillow. She waited for the night to come and then puts the crystal ball into her mouth. To her surprise she really gets transformed into a beautiful fairy with long white wings. She went out that night and distributed sweets, foods & toys to the hungry, poor, underprivileged, and orphan children. She felt a immense happiness and contentment by doing so. When she came back home that night she got the soundest and most refreshing sleep of her life.
From that day onwards, she continued to live a normal life in the morning & helped the needy children and even adults in the night by getting transformed into a fairy. She even got to talk to her real mother at times. Her step mother, her two younger brothers and her father had also started loving her now and thus, her life had become as beautiful as heaven.
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