A small little girl with almond skin and black hair up in a bun ran around the park, she was playing tag with her best friend.

Her best friend was the girl, the girl with oran- no bro- no....It was... 2389205

The girl had shiny 7185514 eyes, she had the prettiest smile too. A little bow in her hair, she chased the other girl.

"Salem slow down!" The girl called.

Salem did slow down and stop, she stared at a flower. The eight year old smiled. "Bella look at this." She said.

Bella walked over, looking at what Salem was looking at. "Oh, that's a butterfly, nothing cool. Let's get back to playing."

"But look! The butterfly can't fly, we have to help I-"

"No we don't. It's wings were broke for a reason, it can't leave the flower now." Bella cut Salem off.

Bella picked up the butterfly and crushed it. "Now let's go play."

"Okay..." Salem started running again, as fast as she could as far as her legs would take her, Bella was gone.

She was now 12, running, running through the halls, running to the bathroom to hide. She couldn't face Bella or those boys.

She silent cried in the bathroom stall she was in.

Bella walked into the bathroom. "Salem, I'm sorry. You know we were only joking?" Bella said.

"Y-Yeah, I-it's okay." Salem replied after a couple seconds. She opened the bathroom stall and Bella immediately hugged her.

She wanted to push Bella away, the hug made her feel disgusting, but Bella said she shouldn't feel like that. So she hugged her best friend back.

"Wanna go to the park later?" Bella asked.

"Of course." Salem replied.

Once school was over the two best friends started their walk to the park. Salem said hi to everyone she saw, she was happy that she saw some of her classmates also heading to the park.

"Salem stop talking to those people." Bella said.
"But they're-"
"No buts. I said stop."
"Alright.."

They arrived to the park, Bella going to sit down by their favorite tree. Salem sat down next to her.
"Salem, I'm sorry I don't want you talking to people and stuff.. I just want you to be safe, and a wingless butterfly is safer than a winged butterfly."