Meadow Short Story

One day a dog came to a meadow. Most meadows that he knew of were filled with lots of bright colorful flowers, but not this one. This meadow had just one flower in it, the flower was so precious and a very lovely shade of purple. The little dog didn’t have a family or friends, and he saw that this flower was all alone just like him. So he decided to take care of it and keep it company. Around the meadow he found soft grass that he took and made a bed out of by the flower. Each day he would bring water from a nearby creek and water it, at night before he went to sleep he would read the flower bedtime stories. The dog spent every minute of everyday caring and looking after the small flower. He grew to love it more than anything in the entire world. Some nights when he couldn’t sleep, he would cuddle up close to the flower and point out the beautiful constellations up in the sky. When the little dog would get sad, he would cry as he laid next to the flower, telling it all the reasons for his sadness. The dog loved the flower so much, he …show more content…
The dog had to start bringing in even more grass for his bed just so he wouldn’t be cold. He also had to make small fires so he would stop shivering at night or even through the day at times. As the days wore on and grew colder, the flower started to lose its beautiful color and hung down towards the ground. The dog had no clue what was happening to the flower, he just assumed it wasn’t feeling very well. One particularly cold morning he woke up and found his flower covered in frost and crinkled up. His flower was dead. The dog picked up the broken flower and help it close, he pressed it against his chest in hopes his warmth would save it. The flower crumpled and fell to the ground in a dark lifeless heap. Tears spilled from the dog's eyes as he realized he had lost the only thing he had ever loved. Soon the ground was soaked with his tears, but they never stopped