MAJDU'S TALES

By Majdouline Benzina


HUMMINGBRID - MAJDU AND JUDITH

CHAPTER ONE

“SUMMER”

I wake up in the morning, at 6:00. It’s my first day of class and I’m very nervous, because I was waiting all the summer to see Violett again. She’s the prettiest girl in my class and in all the world!

Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself.
My name is Ian and I’m 16 years old. I was born in a little hospital in Wyoming, USA. I live with my mum, my dad and my little sister Clea. My friends say that I’m very tall and I could be a basketball player, but I hate all sports. I’m good at sports but I never practice them after classes because it’s a big responsibility for me. I prefer staying at home and read some books who talk about fantasy and adventures.

In the past, all the girls in my class, said that I’m very handsome, that my brown hair is very shiny and when they talk about my eyes, they smile and all of them wait to meet my eyes. But now… the “bad boys” are very jealous of me, and they talk to all the class about how stupid, ill and ugly I am. But I prefer that, because now the girls take me alone and I’m very happy with my books.

Now, the only girl in my heart and mind is Violett. She is very beautiful, she’s got blond hair, brown eyes who look like honey and she’s very intelligent. She loves a little bird, a hummingbird, very much and all the days after school, she goes to a pet shop special for birds to buy all the things that her bird needs.

When I take the bus at 7:30, I’ve been waiting to see Violett, because she goes to school on the same bus that I take. But today, I haven’t been very lucky. I saw Violett, but out of the bus, she was going to school by bicycle.
On the blackboard of my new class, I can see that I’m at the back of the class and next to the windows, and on my right side, my good friend Dan. Behind me, one of the “bad boys”, Koza Anchundia, and in front of me, Aeryn. She is my best friend among the girls, because though the “bad boys” spoke badly of me, she defended me and she stayed on my side.

I wish, I can say Hello! to Violett without becoming red and doing ridiculous things. And, though I think that it’s impossible, be the better and the only best friend of Violett.
I coudn't remember why, but i thing that I saw Violett in another place when I was too young.


CHAPTER TWO

"HUMMINGBIRD"

Hi, my name is Violett, yes, with two "T". My dad was a little crazy but a very good person, he had chosen my name.
I was born in London, UK.
When I was five years old, my father died in a traffic accident.
After that, my mum, my brother Andrew and I, we went to Mills, a town next to Casper, in Wyoming, USA. The reason is because my grandmother lives there. I didn't agree to leave there, but then, I liked the idea of decorating my room.
Now, I'm 16 years old. One of the things I remember with happiness it was when I found a little hummingbird with a broken wing in my garden. I took care of him, and I named him. Since that, seven years have gone by and the bird continues in my house though her wing is cured.
Another thing I remember is my friend Ian. I met him after I came to USA. I was playing alone in the garden, when he came in chasing a beetle.
- Hello, what are you doing here all alone?- he said.
- I'm playing with the grass.
-The grass? But this is so boring! Do you want to come with me and try to catch some beetle?
- OK! My name is Violett, and yours?
- Ian.
After this, every afternoon, we went together to a little mountain next to my house. One day, i said to him that my birthday was the next day, and he said he would come. I was excited to celebrate my birthday with him, but he did not show up. He never again came back to my house.


CHAPTER THREE
“VIOLETT AND THE BAD BOYS”
I’m in the school, I’m parking my bicycle in front of the school.
Every step I do, I feel that this year will be a grate year. I don’t know why but I feel it.
I was just to enter to the classroom when the Bad boys called me to talk. I was impressed because I didn’t usually talk with them. I was curious.
- Hey Violett! – said Facundo, the boss of the Bad boys team).
- What happends? – I said.
- Nothing, I want to know what you did on holydays, after the party.
- What party?
- The party in the beach, do you remember? 24 of june!
- Mmm… I don’t remember, I have foggy memories about that day.
- Really? You don’t remember that day? The things that happened…?
Ring! The bell rang to enter classes.
I was goig to the class when Koza Anchundia, the Chinese with a sling, took my hand.
- Answer! – said Koza.
- I have to go to class! – I said
After classes I went to the cafeteria for buy lunch. I saw Ian but I was a little angry with him and I don’t say anything.
Just leaving the cafeteria, I saw Bad boys waiting for me. I was afraid.
- Answer the fucking question! – cried Koza.
He took my hand very strongly. I was very afraid.
- Don’t touch her! – said a boy.
I was surprised because when I turned around, my heart stopped.
The boy was Ian.
Ring ring! The breaking time had ended. The teachers called the Bad boysto go to class, Ian and me were alone.
- Are you okay, Violett?- said Ian.
- Y..yes- I said.
- Sure?-he took my hand gently and we went to class.


CHAPTER FOUR
“HISTORY CLASS”
When I realized it, I was holding Violett’s hand. Little by little I left the hand of Violett and we went to history class.
I was red, very red, but luckily Violett didn’t see me.
I set down in my chair, and when the teacher said Good afternoon, I slept.
I forgot how I had arribed to a tree… I saw everything foggy. I was nervous.
Suddenly I felt like gravity acted against me. I fell on the road, I listen to a mix of motors of cars and voices of humans. Little by little I reconised a sweet voice of a teenager .
Slowly I was getting my sight back. I was scared because I didn’t understand anything, I got up in the hands of a pretty girl. She had soft hands and when I rose my head to know who she was, I was surprised, the teenager was a pretty girl with honey eyes.


CHAPTER FIVE
“I DON’T UNDERSTAND”
Violett!
I felt very smell, i saw Violett very big. She had bandages in her hands and she had a worried face. She took my… my wing?! I’m not well, I hallucinating. She caressed me. What’s happening? I’m crazy? I only know that Violett is very beautiful even with a worried face. I was impressed, her eyes are very big, I can see every feeling, every thought, each tear… I saw reflected in her dreamy eyes. I can’t see Ian, I see a hummingbird with a poisoned wing. I was paralyzed, observing her lovely face, her long eyelashes that move with grace when blinking. Her white skin, soft and smoth with a few freckeles witch decorate her beautiful face. She left me in a soft jail, with large bars, underfloor newspaper and a small bowl of water. She left.
I was so tired, I slept.
Screams woke me. The screams came from a woman who she’s very angry.
- Your father died because of you! No use of you! I hate you! – said the woman.
- But mum! – said a sweet voice.
- Shut up! I’m not listening you! La la la – answered the woman.
- Mum! – cried the sweet voice, Violettt.
The silence flooded the room. Finally the silence broke with the cries of Violett. She approached me, she took me and she started to talk about her mom.
- I know that you see, but my mum is a very good person, she loves me and is very affectionate. She’s upset for the death of my father and she has to take some pills. If she doesn’t take her pills she’s very angry and sad. Forgive.
She continued crying. I can’t talk. Suddenly I knew what I had to do. I approached her cheek and I started to sing a lovely song. I didn’t know what I sang, but she raised her head and smiled with the tears down her cheek. She kissed me and said:
- This song… it’s the song that my father sang the day of my birthday, and when we come to USA, I met an important person for me, Ian, who disappeared on my birthday day. – My heart stopped. – He forgot that day… I was waiting for him to my house and to be together… I was very much in love, but he never said nothing to me. I’m a little angry with him. Today is the first day that he is taked to me. I was nervous and when he took my hand suddenly stopped.
Sorry, just saying nonsense, sorry…
She fell asleep. I was all the night observing her face and thinking about she was dreaming.


CHAPTER SIX
“FREE, IRREAL DREAM”
Now, I remember it, I was searching a beetle and when I realized I was lost between houses that I couldn’t remember. Then, I heard a voice singing a lovely song and I tried to go to the person who was singing and ask how to return to my house.
Then, I was surprised, a beautiful girl was playing with the grass and accidentally I felt in her garden.
- Hello, what are you doing here all alone? – I said.
- I’m playing with the grass. - She said.
- The grass? But is so boring! Do you want to come with me and try to catch some beetle?
- OK! My name is Violett, and yours?
- Ian. – When I heard her name, definitely I fall in love with her.
After this, every afternoon, we went together to a little mountain next to her house. One day, she said that her birthday was the next day, and I said I would come. But…
- Where are you going? Said my mum.
- To celebrate Violett’s birthday!
- Who is Violett?
- A new girl in town, she comes from Brittan and she…
- WHAT!? I prohibe you to talkwith her again! Her father was a very good person, but her mother… she’s crazy! If I know that you turned to meet Violett again, you’re going to be without dessert all your life!
Now, I know how Violett felt all this years, and why she hates me.
The days passed after my mum shouted me, and I forget those happy days, the happy days who Violett dreamed to life once again.
I woke up just before Nana, the grandmother of Violett, was entering the room.
- Now… we’re all alome my darling Ian… - said Nana. How she knows that I’m the hummingbird?
- I doesn’t like that the boys enter the rooms od the girls! Because of it, I’m going to deliver you to DINO!
Dino? Who is dino? I was very afraid! Nana is a grandmother, and the grandmothers are lovely, not?
Dino was a dinosaur!!
- I’m going to squash you like an ant! – He said before trod me.


CHAPTER SEVEN
“THE GIFT”
- Noo!! – Ian shouted in the middle of the class.
I was surprised. I never seen before, someone shouting like that. All the class started laughing at him, and the Bad boys, took advantage of that opportunity to leave him in ridiculously.
- Hello, my name is Ian and I’m sleeping on history class because I was thinking all the night with Violett! – said Facundo.
- Don’t say stupidities Facundo! – shouted Aeryn.
- Yes, you’re the only stupid here! – I said to Facundo.
Aeryn and I, shared our first time together in the hallway, and Facundo took to the principal’s room.
- Well, thank you to defend me Violett…
- Nothing, nothing. Because of the Bad boys I had a lot of troubles this week… Aeryn, can I ask you a question?
- Yes, of course!
- Are you in love with Ian?
- No… yes… I don’t know… WAIT! How did you know that?
- Because any girl in our class would have dared to stand up to Facundo, and less to defend Ian.
- You think so… I know a girl that yes. You. I’ll leave you Ian, but only because I want the best for my best friend Ian.
I could see the tears in her eyes, truing to get it out, and then, the only tinhg that I could do was, hug. She started to cry, and after, me too.
- Why are you crying? – said Aeryn between hiccups.
- And you?
And we started laughing.
After that, me and Aeryn became inseparable friends, and two days later, I found a small box in the bike basket. The box had a letter who put:
“The gift that I could never give up to you”
A beautiful hummingbird-shaped necklace was inside the box. Silent tears down my cheek.
I realized that I had to return to the little mountain next to my house. I took my bike, and I started to ran like I’ve never done.
And there it was, the reason of my happy days, probably, the most important person in my life after my dad. Ian.
- You’ve finally arrived, I was scared that you doesn’t come.
Now, the tears doesn’t stop. I couldn’t be more happier. I dropped the bike and I ran to the person who would be by my side for the rest of my life.

THE END