Short+story-+Flower+of+Youth

 Joanna Lum block 3 Flower of Youth  It was only 13 years and they are already in their 40’s, the married couple, Tina and Kevin argued through those years even though they loved each other a lot. . Every time they argue, they always think about what they were arguing about afterwards. They also agree on each other but they just never admit it and they desperately want to become younger and look prettier. This morning, Tina was putting on her makeup like she does every morning; and every morning Kevin passes by the room and says,” we all know you’re old already, why would you waste your time putting your makeup on? Hurry up and make my breakfast! I have to leave for work soon! “What’s wrong with putting makeup on, a lot of other girls and women does too!” Tina mumbled quietly and madly.” Why don’t you make your own breakfast? I’m just putting makeup on and you’re like- like, never mind. I’ll come to make your breakfast as soon as I finish putting my blush on!” “Stop complaining already! You’re so annoying! Just be quiet and make my breakfast, like now!” Kevin yells.  Tina doesn’t want to show how mad she was to Kevin when she walked out of the room, so she pretends to act normal, though she was very mad. After Kevin left for work, Tina sat on the couch crying. When she finished crying, she went out to take a walk. She went hiking up a mountain; she is very tired but she still continued walking. She ran out of breath and stopped. She doesn’t even realize where she was, but she was at the top of the mountain. She sat on a rock to take a rest and enjoy the view from there. It started to get dark and a breeze of wind blew past her. “Whoa, the wind is starting to get strong.” She said to herself while shivering. “I must get down before it’s too late.”  She starts going on her way back down but somehow she ends back where she was. She went down the same way she came up from and was back to the top. She starts getting scared because she lost her way back down the mountain; she had no cellular devices to contact her husband, so she sat on the same rock she sat on before. “Why do I have to be tortured like this?” Tina cries angrily aloud.  She is cold and hungry and she doesn’t know what to do except to keep trying to find her way out. She wanders around and ends up at a cave. I lay there almost fallen asleep and sees a flower right there. “I want to eat that flower.” She thought. But the flower was very beautiful; it’s a pure white color, and it’s standing alone in the middle of nowhere. It can mean it’s a very rare flower, but it could also have two other meanings. It’s either poisonous or not poisonous, or maybe it’s not even rare. There’s a fifty/fifty chance of dying and surviving so I’m going to eat it.  Tina falls asleep in the cave for the night still very cold and hungry. Meanwhile, Kevin starts to worry because every time they argue, Tina takes a walk, and he knows that but she always come back before 10pm and it is already 12 am. He goes out to look for her for about an hour, but no luck. He calls couple of his fellows to help him find her. They shout her name out loudly but still can’t find her. Kevin went to the police station and tells them that he can’t find Tina, but normally you can say you lost someone only after 24 hours, and it hasn’t been 24 hours yet. The only thing Kevin can do is wait for her tidings because he already looked everywhere for her. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> The next morning Tina woke up feeling energize and young, but she did not care about it; the first thing she did was find her way down the mountain. She starts to find her way back down and saw clearly that there are different tracks that lead down. She followed one of the tracks down and she finally reaches the bottom. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">“Finally, I’m out of the scary mountain!” she shouts energetically. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Tina goes home and it is still pretty early so Kevin hasn’t woken up yet. Her mood is extremely good so she decides to make breakfast for him. When breakfast is ready, Kelvin smells it, it smelled delicious. He wakes up right away, didn’t even brush his teeth and came out to the living room while Tina is cleaning up in the living room too. He sees a woman, about the age of 27-30 in the house and he starts asking, “Who are you? What are you doing in my house?” Tina turns around. Kevin thinks she’s very pretty and young. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Tina answers, “What are you talking about? You don’t know who I am?” <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">“I somewhat recognize your voice,” he replies. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">“What?! Are you serious? You don’t recognize me at all except my voice? What happened to you? I’m Tina, your wife!” <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">“I should be the one asking you that question. You look very…” <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Tina interrupts. “What happened to me? What do I look like? Do I look very tired and look all old all of a sudden?” <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> “No, no, no. You look very young and pretty.” He said looking miserable because he doesn’t know what happened to her. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> “What?!” she exclaims with excitement. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> “ Why are you looking so young all of a sudden? What happened to you last night? Where did you go?” he asks curiously. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> “I don’t know, I went up this mountain, got lost and can’t come back down. I found a cave and stayed in there, I was also very hungry so I ate this flower. The next morning I felt all energized. I think it’s the flower I ate.” She explains. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> “All I can say right now is you look very beautiful.” <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> “Thank you!” she says as her face turns red. “I realized this is the first time you said such pleasant words to me.” <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> “Well then, I should be more gentlemen to you from now on!” <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">As days go by, their relationship gets better and better no matter how old they look. Tina still looks pretty and young; thanks to the flower she ate.