The Blue Jelly Bean

The Blue Jelly Bean

Once upon a time there was a jelly bean. This jelly bean was very lonely because he was the last blue jelly bean in the packet. All the red jelly beans and the yellow jelly beans would make fun of him and be mean to the blue jelly bean. The Blue jelly bean was not very happy and was very sad. One day a man had bought the bag of jelly beans at the movie theater, he had spilt them on the ground accidently and the blue jelly bean was one of those beans. The man played by the 5 second rule, so he quickly tried to gather up all the jelly beans he could see in the dark movie theater. He quickly saw all the red and yellow jelly beans because they caught his eyes with their bright colors they had. He swept them up and threw them in his mouth. However, the blue jelly bean was unnoticed because he blended in with the darkness of the movie theater. As he watched in horror as his fellow bag mates were consumed by the giant beast, he tried to think of what he could do... he was frantic for that he might be discovered. But to his luck this man was particularly clumsy and a splash of cola came crashing down and swooshed the jelly bean across the floor onto the row in front of where he was previous. The jelly bean was relieved because he had dodged his first problem. But he soon realized he had another problem at hand… the vacuum cleaner… he knew that after the movie, that foul contraption would be after him relentlessly and he would have no escape. He tried to start to wobble just to make it somewhere else… but right then, he was stepped upon and smushed onto the shoe of an infant. The bean was in excruciating pain, but he thought this was a sign from the chief upstairs for right then the child started to cry as an alien got decapitated by a Indian chieftain on the movie in the theater. And because the toddler was crying the adult figure with him was then forced to leave the area with the little snot. On the way out of the theater the bean managed to wiggle free from the light-up Scooby Doo sneakers that belonged to the kid… right into the crevice of a drain hole. The bean bounced and plopped its way through the tunnel. The never ending tunnel frightened the bean because he didn’t know what was going on, for the light reflecting off the water spray in the dark tunnel almost made it seem like he was Han Solo going through light speed. But he was finally able to gain his senses when he saw a very bright light at the end of the tunnel. He braced himself thinking it was going to be a train…. *Swoosh* the bean shoots out of the bright light into…water? The tunnel was a direct sewer lines that lead into the nearby lake. As the bean is flying threw the air he is beginning to think all hope is lost and that he is going to die. He hits the water, and because of his newly formed flattened surface he was able to skip across the water like a rock. He reaches somewhere near the middle of the lake and he starts to settle down with his skipping. He finally comes to a stop and he finds that he can’t sink because of his “wonderful” new shape. He sits there for days and the sun starts to bake him. His jelly insides start to turn hard and he starts to lose his transparency, he is in agony and he feels that the end is near. Finally a boat comes by sending a wave that topples him over causing him to sink. He slowly makes his journey down the blue abyss like a fishing lure waiting for a salmon to come get some. On his way down he notices that everything is blue down there and that he kind of blends in with everything. He finally hits bottom and he notices that there is other forgotten and random junk down there also. He notices a rusty old bike, and a old football trophy… and they all look blue… but not pure blue. He thinks to himself “everything down here… is like me”. The blue jelly bean rejoices in the new found home and learns to love the new life he has come about. For he has found a place where he belongs. Moral of the story: just because you haven’t found your place yet, doesn’t mean you wont.