The Broken Rainbow

Bizzy was sitting at the window of her house with her chin cupped in her hands. She sighed.

"Oh Im so bored!".

It was very wet outside and all of the other Beezles were nowhere to be seen. Bizzy watched the rain drops trickle down the window. Some of the raindrops were having a race. Bizzy giggled to herself. Imagine! sitting here alone watching raindrops running down the window! Pah!

Bizzy got up from her seat and went to the cupboard for her raincoat.
She pulled on her wellington boots and tied the hood of her raincoat tightly
under her chin. There was no point in sitting here all day, she'd go out and have some fun stamping in the puddles.

As Bizzy stepped outside she noticed Zubby standing looking at the sky.

"Hey Zubby!" called Bizzy, "what are you doing?"
Zubby turned to look at Bizzy with his mouth hanging open and he pointed to the sky.
Bizzy looked up and almost fell back with surprise!
The rainbow above had burst its seams and hundreds of tiny little bubbles were falling from the sky!

Red bubbles,yellow bubbles,pink bubbles,green bubbles,orange bubbles,purple bubbles and blue bubbles too!
"Yikes!" cried Buzzy. He had just come out to join his friends as the rain had gone away now, and as the three friends stood in wonder looking at the burst rainbow they couldnt believe their eyes!

"How could this have happened?" asked Bizzy.
"I dont know, but it's pretty cool!" Buzzy replied.
"I feel sorry for the rainbow,look how sad her little face is"

The rainbow was named Rosy.
Rosy had been happily skipping the sky,minding her own business, when suddenly she caught the end of her skirt on a cloud that had been passing by.
It would have been fine if Rosy had taken her time, but as usual, she was in a hurry and had tugged so hard that her pretty skirt had ripped.
Now she'd have to wait for her mummy to come along and fix it.
Rosy was getting very impatient, but she could see that the Beezles were having fun with the bubbles falling from the tear in her skirt!

"Are you alright?" called Bizzy to Rosy. "I hope you don't disappear!"
Rosy waved and called back to Bizzy. "I'm fine,really. Just waiting for my mummy to come back and then she can fix my torn skirt"

Zubby ran around the garden trying to catch the purple bubbles.
Bizzy tried to catch the pink ones.
Buzzy was chasing the green ones and Bazzil who had just come out to play was kicking at the yellow ones.

This was so much fun! Rosy had never been torn before and everyone in the garden was squealing and laughing. The Beezles had never seen so many bubbles before!

Very soon Rosy's mum appeared. She wrapped herself around Rosy and pulled her gently across the sky.
The bubbles stopped.

"Oh botheration!" exclaimed Zubby. "I was having fun just then. I wish Rosy would come back and let some more bubbles fall"
"Now now Zubby" said Bizzy. "Rosy couldn't stay like that forever or she'd fade away. Lets play another game."

Suddenly there was a little giggle from the edge of the garden.
It was Fuzzy Wuzzy Bunny and she was merrily picking tiny little rainbow coloured daisys from the grass.
"Look whats happened" Fuzzy exclaimed. "the bubbles have made the daisies turn a very pretty colour"

Sure enough, the garden was full of pretty daisies in all of the colours of the rainbow. Everyone joined in, picking the daisies and gathering them into bunches. Bizzy put some in a yellow vase and placed the vase in the window of her little pink hive.

Zubby took a huge bunch to Mrs Bee's shop and she thanked him very much. "Where did you get these Zubby?" she asked.
"Oh Rosy Rainbow tore her skirt and the bubbles that fell landed on the daisies and made them change colour"
"Well, they are very very pretty indeed!" Mrs Bee smiled.

Today had been so different to any other day on Honeycombe Hill.
Everyone hoped that Rosy's mum had managed to fix the torn skirt and as the Beezles all headed home Rosy smiled and climbed into bed.
She'd given the garden a mini makeover, and that had made everyone happy.

THE END