The Color-blind Bee:Chapter 1

The sun was shining. The flowers were blooming. And everyone in Buzzy Hive was out and about, collecting honey, stirring it, or simply making breakfast. That is, everyone except one mother bee, who, at that moment, was in her egg nursery in one of the holes inside the hive. Her second group of eggs were just starting to hatch, to soon start school and help the hive get richer in suclles (SUH-kle: every centimeter of honey's a suclle). The hive was a big one, a whole wall in fact, inside the Hill Land museum in Pacifica, CA. And all the while, the mother bee, whose name was Brenda, was thinking hard about what she would call her children when CRACK CRACK POP! out came the first bee, a male it turned out to be. Next came his sister, CRACK, CRACK, POP! Then 10 more came, CRACK-ITY CRACK-ITY POP POP POP! But one still remained still, not even shaking. One of the boy bees asked in a squeaky voice, "Why is that egg not hatching?" Then, not waiting for a answer, he scuttled over and poked the egg. Then, CRRRAAACK! CRRRAAACK! POP! A boy bee popped out of the egg. Brenda gasped. His eyes were, well, different! Instead of being blue, brown, or green, they were gray! TO BE CONTINUED...