Once every year grows a very strange and wonderful flower. It's quite different from that of a typical flower: all its petals are different colors, sort of like a rainbow. It's also resistant to over-watering, bug bites, pesticide, and even fire. The flower blooms for a month before it withers away completely, and its location changes each time: the sole seed it leaves after death is so small, it can't be viewed with anything but a microscope. It needs very little water and sunlight to live, so it can grow anywhere at any time...even on mountains and underwater.
Its newest location just happened to be in the same spot as young, spirited 19 year-old Laura Carley. The energetic girl had her short brown hair covered with a hat to protect her from the sun's rays, and she was sporting a pink tank-top and light blue shorts while on her daily walk, holding a water bottle in her right hand and her iPod in her left. Usually she enjoyed the outdoors, but the recent summer weather prevented her from going outside too much until today, where it was a much cooler 75 degrees outside. The reason for this concerns the pollen level: ever since Laura was a little girl, she sneezed from sniffing most flowers. In fact, one of the very few plants that didn't cause her to sneeze were cacti, which she kept 3 or 4 of at home in her windowsill, watering them every day. As the joyous woman continued her walk, she noticed the previously mentioned rainbow flower. The first thing she did was sit on the grass on her butt to get a better look.
"I've never seen a flower quite like this before", Laura said to herself as she gently plucked out the flower from the ground and took out her headphones from her iPod. She then slowly sniffed the flower, wondering whatever or not she was allergic. Much to her surprise, though, she didn't feel a thing. No sneezing, no watering eyes, nothing. Curious about the flower still, Laura quickly stood on her feet again (the flower still in her hand) and ran back home.
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About 10 minutes had passed for Laura by the time she headed back home. She sprinted from the door straight to her bedroom on the second floor. Her room was right to the left of her brother's, with light blue walls, a drawer in the upper left corner of the room for clothes, her bed on the upper right, her TV on the bottom right corner, and her CD player and school bag on the bottom left. And in the middle of the farthest back wall was the window, which her cacti were currently residing. Laura quickly got out a flower pot and dirt from one of said cacti and placed the flower in it as soon as she could. She then poured a tiny bit of water from her water bottle on the rainbow-colored flower's dirt, as well as a little on the flower itself. The flower seemed to sparkle a little bit afterwards.
"Wow. It's so pretty", Laura smiled at the flower, admiring its beauty. She then left her room and quickly went downstairs to get a replacement pot for her cactus she took out to make room for the flower. Right after getting the pot, though, Laura's eyes started to water, and her nose started to itch.
"Uh-oh...another sneeze is coming on..", Laura told herself as her eyes watered even more, seconds away from a mere sneeze. She tried her hardest to hold it in, but to no avail. She then snorted soon afterwards, her eyes still closed from the sneeze. As she moved around her fingers and body, though, she felt...different somehow. Like a part of her body had changed size.
Unfortunately for Laura, the rainbow-petaled flower she found earlier was not your typical, run-of-the-mill flower. When wet, it caused nervous allergic reactions that can actually change at random the size of a person's body part. ANY of them. Hair, legs, head, eyes...you name it. But did a body part of Laura grow, or did it shrink?
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