Butterfly Wishes 2 by Jennifer Castle

Author:Jennifer Castle
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781681193748
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-11-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

Addie glanced down at the very unhappy bee in the net and felt herself go into panic mode. The bee was buzzing so loudly that she was sure it was making the walls vibrate.

Pepper ran circles around the net, barking, but Clara shooed him away.

“Addie, do something!” she called. “Put the dog somewhere!”

Addie snapped herself out of it. She was happy to do anything that meant getting away from the bee. She scooped up Pepper and locked him in the downstairs bathroom. He’ll be mad, thought Addie, but I’d rather deal with an angry Pepper than an angry bee.

When she came back, Clara was kneeling on the floor, her face close to the bee in the net. Sky Dance and Shimmer Leaf sat on each of Clara’s shoulders.

“Did you just say something?” Clara asked the bee.

Addie moved closer, but not too close.

“Yes!” said the bee, sounding frantic and frightened. Addie could tell from his voice that he was a boy. “I said, please let me go! I’m trying to help Tiger Streak too!”

Clara glanced up at Addie, then at the two butterflies. Each butterfly shook her wings in a kind of shrug. Clara narrowed her eyes and leaned in closer to the bee. “What exactly do you mean?”

The bee landed and let out one long, frustrated bzzz. Then he took a deep breath and spoke again, this time more slowly.

“When you told Tiger Streak you have to keep her safe from the bees—you were right about that. There’s a whole swarm of them coming to take her to our hive!”

“Isn’t that what you were doing?” asked Sky Dance.

“No!” cried the bee, and he threw himself against the net again.

“I don’t believe him!” said Shimmer Leaf. “I bet he’s trying to trick us!”

“Wait, Shimmer,” said Sky Dance, dipping her antennae toward the bee. “I think we should give him a chance to explain.”

The bee sighed. “Thank you!”

“What’s your name?” asked Clara.

“I’m Kirby.”

“Kirby,” continued Clara, “why were you with Tiger Streak in Wishing Wing Grove?”

Kirby took another deep breath. Addie drew two steps closer, to make sure she could hear what he was saying. She could see his fuzzy face and black-and-yellow-striped body. Now that he was calm, he didn’t seem so scary anymore. He was actually rather . . . cute.

“This morning,” Kirby began, “our queen called a hive meeting and told us that the Wishing Wings are our enemies. She didn’t tell us why! She just said we were supposed to hate them from now on. So all the bees in our colony started saying bad stuff about the butterflies, and how they never liked them anyway.”

“That’s awful!” exclaimed Clara.

“They can’t really help it,” said Kirby sadly. “It’s their job to just do, and think, whatever the queen tells them.”

“Do you think that, too?” asked Shimmer Leaf.

Kirby puffed out his little striped chest and shook his head. “No, I don’t. I’ve always been kind of . . . well, they call me weird. Because I tend to think for myself.

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