Day as a Honey Bee

#DayAsA_Chall

Today happens to be my first day as a worker bee. Today is the first day I leave the hive and see the outside! I am beyond excited. How will it go? What if someone gets hurt? What if an animals sees me?

There really is so many questions to ask. No, not enough time! Today is the day! One of my sisters comes up to me. “Are you ready to go out? I’m going to be helping you today.”

Oh! It’s time to go so soon? I am scared out of my mind, what will it be like outside of the hive? “Hello? Earth to Beatrice?” I’ve been zoning out.

“I’m sorry, April.” I’m basically shaking at this point.

“No, it’s okay to be nervous.” She comes closer. “You know, you don’t ha-“ I already know what she’s suggesting, no way!

“Of course I’m gonna do it!” I fly ahead of her. “Come on!” She smiles at my enthusiasm. “Alright, let me show the way.”

As I leave the hive for the first time, there’s so much I’ve never experienced before. I see the brightest flowers, yes, flowers I’ve been trained to find. There are all different types of flowers, all brighter than the sun. They’re all beautiful enough to bring a tear to anyone’s eye. I cannot believe I’ve never seen them before. I’ve lived my entire life without seeing my entire life purpose like this, all at once.

I can smell the outside for the first time, the flowers have a beautiful smell. Well maybe not the flowers, the stuff within the flowers core. Oh, it’s so much. I watch as April flies to a flower. I am unable to move.

“Beatrice? Follow me!” She yells. I gather myself and I follow her closely. I’m still in shock. This much really always existed with me?

As soon as my short lived euphoria started, it was put to an abrupt end. I followed her to the flower, watched her pick up the pollen, and heard her cry.

“Look up!” she screamed. There was a human, but not a good human, a bad human. He was swatting us! I ran and he reached and grabbed for me. April flew up to his hand.

“Goodbye.” she quickly stung him, I saw as the life left her, she pulled away and quickly fell to the ground. I couldn’t move.

“Beatrice!” my sister, Audrey, called me. The boy’s face twisted from pain to terror. He ran. I thought I was safe.

I turned around. The hive. All I’ve ever known.

Audrey felt it too. I could see by her blank expression. She was watching her entire life leaving her. I felt it too. There where drones leaving the hive. I thought they never left, they were dropping left and right,all they were worried about was the queen. She was a number one priority for our entire hive. She jumped out in front of me and Audrey, and we all followed.

Fire. Our perfect world. Fire. Not a small one, a large one. Not only was our hive on fire, but so was the perfect tree it was surrounded by, the height that kept us safe. In fact, almost all the surrounding trees were on fire. I flew up to check it out. Fire.

Insane. It couldn’t be. Fire. As far as the eye could see! I went back down with the rest of my hive, all in a collective panic. What will we do? How will we survive? Will we all die.

“Beatrice?” I hear my name over all the noise. I couldn’t trace the sound.

“Beatrice! Turn around!” I look behind me, and I find the source of the noise. It’s my sister, Caroline.

“Caroline! Oh my goodness, are you alright?” I asked her. “Well, I’m feeling slightly...” She stops talking, abruptly.

“Caroline, what are you feeling?” I get more desperate to know.

“Faint, I’m actually feeling quite faint.” I can see her start to fall. She catches herself every time.

Eventually, she falls and i cannot see where she falls, there’s too many bees.

Before I can react, I feel it too. I feel what made her faint. I find my body getting heavier, until I can no longer hold myself, everything goes black, and I fall through the sea of bees, similar to Caroline.

*****

“Beatrice?” I hear a voice call my name? “God?” I respond.

“No! Silly, it’s me, Audrey, Sarah and Caroline are here too, everyone else is in other rooms.

Rooms?

“Is there rooms in heaven?” I respond.

“Stop it!” Sarah, my sister, grabs me. “You aren’t in heaven!”

“Tell that idiot to open her eyes!” Audrey yells.

I open. It’s... wood? Unlike wood from my tree, more modernized, I suppose, or maybe even futuristic. “Wow...” Is all I can say.

“Wow, indeed.” Sarah smiles at me. I smile back.

“Wait, where are we?” I ask, the panic sets in.

“Relax, there’s a nice human here.” Audrey was calm.

I start to calm down and follow my older sisters out of the wooden room we’re in. Honey! There’s honey lining the walls! “Who made that?” I ask.

“Them.” Sarah looks up. I look to see what she’s looking at. I see bees. It’s our entire colony! My brothers, my many sisters... Where is my mother?

“Where is Mom?” I ask. “Come.” Audrey pipes. I follow her away from the large crowd of my family. She guides me through many rooms, until we find the queen.

“Knock knock.” Audrey says before she comes in. I follow her through the larger door and go through the bigger room. She’s there, looking majestic as always. She is happy to see us.

“Oh! Hello, girls!” She smiles at us. We walk to her.

“Where are we?” I ask her, concerned.

“Well, Beatrice, we are home now. I was as worried as you are at first. But this is home. I e have flowers, the colonies, housing, and humans to care for us. We are actually quite lucky to be here.” I smile at her speech.

I guess we are home. Our new, strange, wonderful home.

*****

Bees are highly endangered.

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