Chapter 1: Chapter 1
"What's the worst that could happen?" I ask my friends as we stand around the blueberry pie I've bought from the new bakery in town. "We may become a blueberry like Violet in Charlie and the chocolate factory" says humourously Daniella, a black girl, without knowing how truth her sentence will become.The four of us stand around the small, humble pie, which is the centrepiece of our lunch."We could all get blueberries" I add, and everyone laughs. The sound of their laughter fills the air like music, and I feel a tingling in my chest every time I hear it. It makes me feel good, and I wonder what it would feel like to laugh like that all the time.I look around at the group of girls I call my friends.They are all differents,Daniella a black girl,Jasmine an asian girl and Kayla an irish redheaded girl.They all have their own unique traits, and together they make up the perfect group of friends. My friends are my power' I think to myself, and I can feel my power growing with each laugh they share. "If I was a superhero, my power would be friendship.And this is my super-friendship power, the ability to make you all laugh."
The laughter continues as I cut the pie into slices and pass them around. Each girl gets a piece, and they devour them as fast as I can make them. Suddenly, Daniella ask Jasmine "Are you getting blue ?","No,what are you talking about" Jasmine responds but her face is really getting blue and this the case for my other friends as well.So i got up and go to the nearest mirror and saw with horror that my face is also turning blue.The colour is spreading like a disease, and soon my entire body will be covered in the same shade of blue as my face. Why are we turning into freakin' blueberry?"
As I stare at my reflection, tears streaming down my face, I realize that this is what happens when you eat the new blueberry pie. It turns you into one of them. You become part of the berry, and your skin takes on the colour of the berry you ate.Then i hear Kayla saying that she feels bloated and that her tummy feels strange, she jiggles her belly that made fluid noisewhen she moved. The others girls start complaining of the same condition and my belly is in the same predicamentas theirs. We're all turning into blueberries. I see Jasmine putting her hand on her stomach and frowning.
"I feel weird" she whispers, and I see her put her hand on her belly again.
My heart drops to my stomach when I hear her say that, because I know what that feels like. Now it seems that our bodies are filling with juices, maybe blueberry juice?And these girls are turning into blueberries. What will happen to us? Will we turn into giant blueberries? Or disappear altogether? I don't know what's going on, but I do know that something is seriously wrong. My friends are complaining of the same thing, and their complaints are getting louder and louder. They seem to be getting bigger and bigger, and they're popping out of their shirts and dresses and bras. Soon they'll be able to walk around without anything on at all. This can't be happening' I think to myself, and I tear my gaze away from the mirror to my friends. But they keep looking bigger and bigger, like blueberry full of juice.And they keep growing, and growing, and growing.
"Oh my god, I feel so heavy" Jasmine exclaims, and I see her put her hand on her inflated round body.She looks like a blueberry herself, but her skin tone is more of a purple, and her eyes are wide and bulging. She keeps looking at me, and I can see her trying to make sense of what's going on. How did you do that? How did you make me so big? What am I? What do I look like to you?' I feel like I should be able to answer these questions, but I don't know what to say.My friends are turning into blueberries, and I'm turning into a blueberry myself. What am I? What do I look like? I feel lost. And confused. Confused by everything that has happened today. But it wasn't the time to be confused,because the transformation wasn't finished and our arms and legs started disappearing into our big blueberry body.so we had to do something before we become totally immobile.so i called the nearest hospitaland told them what was going on.But they didn't believe it at all.So it seems that we are stuck to become blueberries.There isn't any way to reverse the process or stop it completely. So i look at my friend becoming