A Thousand Roses

Some people would have said that Molly Monty was was a flamingo but she was in fact not a flamingo as some people would have said. Now Molly Monty was at a difficult time in here life halfway between a woman and a girl (who were sitting in the bus stop with her-she didn't know them) when a thought came to her. I shan't say what the thought was because that would be an inappropriate invasion of privacy I think, but I may change my mind later. I changed it, the thought was this: If birds can fly then why can't I? (that's not the actual thought yet it's just the one leading up to it.) No actually I think it is an invasion of privacy to be honest.

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On a side note I don't know who these people are that think Molly Monty is a flamingo, but they may be very, very decommissioned and disturbed because Molly Monty doesn't even look like a flamingo. Although once she thought that she'd like to be a flamingo so she pretended she was a flamingo by dressing up as a flamingo and acting like a flamingo to see what it was like to be a flamingo. Look now, I've gone and told you what the thought was.

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Now while she was sitting in the bus stop between a woman and a girl Molly suddenly felt awkward because she suspected that they both knew she wasn't really a flamingo but was in fact a girl pretending to be a flamingo and so to ease herself through this difficult time in her life she began to sing in a sweet tinkly voice as she imagined a flamingo would sing.

Dewdrops falling

Down from a starry sky

I want to catch them all

So I hold out my tongue

But they pretend

They don't really know me

I forgot my name now

So I walk out and cry

Molly stopped singing and folded her hands in her lap and looked at the woman who had an unusually glum face, she didn't seam to have taken any notice of her. So Molly glanced sideways at the girl who was glancing sideways at her also. The girl looked very glum and had black lipstick and was dressed very odd.

'What a curious person' though Molly out loud, which was just unfortunate. The girl sneered her black lips and spat out her chewing gum which stuck to her lip. Molly watched in interest as the glum girl smeared black over her face and finally got the chewing gum off. 'I do believe I've forgotten why I'm sitting in a bus stop.' thought Molly, 'waiting to catch a bus perhaps?'. She turned to the girl who really did look quite frightful and asked of her name but the girl just shrugged. Molly thought about this, perhaps it was her name or maybe she was shy and didn't like to say her name. This seemed more likely for she had never heard of anyone whose name was a shrug. At that moment Molly noticed a very faint scent of a thousand roses drifting past so she arose and followed it. As she walked, she remembered the glum woman and glum girl in the bus stop and thought how very strange people can be and what a shame it is that they're so glum and not noticing the interesting things around them such as the scent she was now following. 'For' said Molly aloud 'If anyone was smelling this heavenly smell then they would be following it so they could find it and they'd have no-' she paused and searched for the right word 'Allowance, perhaps?'. By now she had gone a long way and was just scrambling through a car yard full of old broken cars when she saw the roof of a building over the fence. It was a glass roof and the sun reflected off it and Molly knew it was the home of the scent. She found a loose paling and pushed through. And there towering above the piles of wood, old cars, metal frames and rubbish stood the most beautiful thing in the world, a house made of glass.