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The Candy Floss Creator

December 10, 2015
By WheatweeDeWitt BRONZE, Lafayette, Colorado
WheatweeDeWitt BRONZE, Lafayette, Colorado
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Blu Sky was a young man with a very lovely job. You see Blu created candy floss for a living, what is can't floss? Its cotton candy of course. He worked in a small town out away from a larger city in the area. He was an average sized man with light dusty blonde curly hair and bright cyan eyes that almost looked as if they would glow in the light. Little did this man know that because of small order from a woman he had never met in his life, everything would change.
The bell above his shop’s door gave out a light ring as the door itself opened. The warm smell of sweets hitting the customer's face as the stepped in. They told her this was a very welcoming little shop and if anything, she should come here first, thus she did. A man quickly came running up to the front.
“Ah yes hello! Welcome to Blu Sky’s one and only Candy Floss Creations! How may I help you?” He said with a warm smile, “We’ve got all kinds of candy floss around here. There’s strawberry and blueberry and even blackberry and watermelon!”
The girl blinked a few times in confusion and then shook her head, “A-ah right yes. Hello my name is Azura...Azura Mora. I was told that the candy sold here was quite nice and the store was one of the more welcoming ones.” She smiled a little. Azura was one of the prettiest people Blu had ever seen. She had light blonde curly hair with bright streaks of cyan in it and the brightest green eyes you had ever seen. She was the average size for a girl, around five foot three and she had on a very pretty blue cloud patterned dress.
Blu shook his head, “Right yes what is it you would like? First time in the store means you get whatever you want free of charge. Right now lemon and orange are my most popular flavor of candy floss within the town, if you would like those.”
“Lemon please. That one sounds the best.” Azura said as she looked about the store. Blu quickly ran into the back and placed the ingredients into the electric cotton candy machine. Quickly the yellow fluff formed around the inside of its bowl, as it did Blu swiftly stuck the cardboard cone in the bowl and wrapped the fluff around it, forming a large yellow ball that looked like stuffing on the top. He then ran back out to the counter.
“Here you are ma’am. One lemon candy floss, just as you asked.” The girl took the candy and then...Blu woke up.
“That...that dream again…” He thought, rolling over in his mess of a bed. Blu had been having this same dream for the past month and every time it took place in his shop, same girl, same order, same everything, Yet he couldn’t figure out why. There was a knock at the door and Blu groaned. “Yes come in?” He said with a large yawn.
A man with orange hair and dark brown eyes walked in, freckles covering almost his entire face. His name was Nigel, one of Blu’s closest friends in the town...sort of.
“Come on Blu its time to get up, you gotta open the store.” He said, quickly opening  the window covers “You know today's the big day! Its the Lemon Festival and that means lots of people wanting to try your candy floss! So get your butt up!”
Blu gave a sigh heavy sigh and sat up, “You know Nigel, maybe you can just go to the Lemon Festival and I can just stay home and hide inside so I don’t bother anyone.” He smiled,
“Does that work out?”
Nigel rolled his eyes, “No time to be silly butt face.” he ran over to the door, “I’ll be out here
preparing your machine, now get up!” he then quickly slammed the room door behind him and ran off.
Blu gave another heavy sigh, “When will he learn to do things without me?” he quietly asked him. He stood up and walked over to his closet. White shirt, blue and white suspenders, orange bow tie, light pink dress pants and blue shoes, this was the outfit he would wear today. After putting everything on Blu grabbed his cyan glasses and placed them on, adjusting anything that didn’t look right while looking into his dresser mirror.
He stepped out of the room and walked out into the back room of the shop, where the candy floss was made. He huffed when Nigel wasn’t in sight and the machine that he said would be on was actually off and not prepared to make candy floss at all. “Thanks for nothing Nigel.” He quietly mumbled, flipping the on switch of the machine. Nigel was never very much help now that Blu thought about it. In fact Nigel was really lazy when it came to working and pushed Blu around more than anything. He shook this thought from his head and continued to work, pouring the ingredients for the floss into the middle of its bowl and watching quietly as it formed around the sides. He quickly scooped it up onto three cardboard cones and placed them in a little holder.
“I see you finally got up.” Nigel cooed, “I thought I told you I would get the machine ready for you…”
“Well Nigel as always you didn’t do that and I had to get it ready.” Blu grumbled back,“So instead, why don’t you take each batch of the lemon and the orange floss and place them on the shelf in the front. Then hang the extra bags of floss in the window so people know what we’re selling today. Sound good?”
Nigel’s hummed and shrugged,“Sure why not?” He grabbed to first two batches Blu had spun and took them out front, coming back in to grab another two batches after he had arranged the ones he took out before. “Alrighty then. Now that we’re done with the making, there's quite a group outside.”
Blu smiled and clasped his hands together,“Well then open the door.”
Nigel nodded and ran back out, flipping the open sign and opening the door to let a rather large flood of people into the sweet smelling candy shop. Little kids, grown ups, teens and elders of all kinds picking what they wanted from the shop and leaving. Blu saying the same phrases over and over again, “Ah yes hello! Welcome to Blu Sky’s one and only Candy Floss Creations! How may I help you?” and “We’ve got all kinds of candy floss around here. There’s strawberry and blueberry and even blackberry and watermelon!” followed by, “Today our specials are Lemon and Orange! Please take what you want!”
And then she appeared. Her hair, her eyes, her dress. Everything about this girl matched exactly like that of the one in his dream, even the glasses were the same as that in the ones in his dream. She was real, and this was Blu’s chance to finally really talk to her.
She walked to the counter with a bag of mixed candy floss, orange and yellow, and placed it there. With a smile she asked, “How much?”
Blu blinked a couple times before clearing his throat, “A-ah right uhm...th-that's free. Since you haven’t been here before the uh...the first ones free.” he picked her bag of floss up and handed it to her, “I know this is an odd question but...mind telling me your name?”
The girl took the bag from his hands and noded, “My names Azura Mora. I just moved in here, didn’t know there was such thing as a Lemon Festival. Pretty neat. Well I’ll be on my way now.” She grinned and left the store.
The next person walked up and Blu ran to the back room’s door. As he opened it Nigel grabbed his arm, “You have work to do.” he advised, “You can’t just leave the store for some stupid girl. Hell you haven’t even been outside for a year.”
Blu frowned, “Nigel let go of my arm. I have to and am going after her. Azura has been in my dreams for an entire month now and I...I need to know if the same has happened to her dreams as well.” He tried to move away, “You aren’t going to keep me in this house Nigel, I can leave any time I want!”
“This girl is all you talk about Blu!” He snapped back, “I’m your friend not her! I’m the one who got you here! I’m the one who got this store for you and I’m the one who made it all possible! Now you get back out there and you do that damn work because I’m not letting you leave!”
Blu was frightened, and as any person who was frightened would not do, he lifted his hand and slapped Nigel across the face. “You do not own me Nigel! You don’t control my life and you don’t control me!” He hissed back. Blu yanked his arm from the others grip.
Nigel was shocked from the slap and said nothing. He backed away, slowly regaining his thoughts,  “You...you aren’t leaving! You are staying here and you are working like you should!” He jumped at Blu and pinned him on the wall, “You aren’t going to go away for another stupid girl that likes you! I like you Blu and you are going to stay!”
“Nigel I…” Blu growled and kicked the other, “I can’t be friends with you if you’re going to be so selfish so sod-off!” He fell to the ground, quickly got back up, and bolted out the door.
Nigel didn’t follow. Instead he watched quietly, the look of bitterness on his face as Blu ran. Nigel had just lost his friend.
Blu had to find this girl, he ran through the crowded streets of  the town, the Lemon Festival not making it easy on him. He looked everywhere for her, around every corner, in every window, but she was nowhere he could see. Blu was upset. He sat up against a small stage and sighed to himself. “You should have listened  to Nigel…” he said to himself, “You’re an idiot Blu and you should of never came out.”
“You shouldn’t be sitting in the dirt in such a nice suit. Would you like to go next for the karaoke sir?”
Blu looked up, a tall man with a light pink suit, brown hair and pink glasses had been standing above him, his eyes a very pretty violet. “I ah...I just thought I would take a little rest from so much walking…” he smiled, “No thanks on the karaoke.”
“Oh come on now everyone loves karaoke! Trust ol Cornelius and come on up, sing some songs! Might even brighten you up a bit since you’re so upset.” He grinned, “Songs always brighten another person’s day.”
Blu tilted his head slightly, “Yes but they can also ruin them with how sad they can be…”
“Or you can just not take them as sad or happy and just enjoy them because of house they sound. Look just...come up here.” Cornelius lifted Blu up off the ground and placed him on the stage, handing him a microphone and going through a list of songs on the machine, “What song seems like it would fit you? Grab people's attention and make them listen to you...hmm…” He
Blu waited quietly, maybe this was his chance to find Azura, his thoughts were broken off by the sudden burst of music from the machine. “Mr.Blue sky?”
Cornelius nodded, “Seemed to fit what you looked like and you did say you’re name was Blu. You don’t have a problem with Electric Light Orchestra’s music do you?”
Blu shook his head and looked back to the machine, watching quietly as the music played. Then the words appeared on screen.

“Sun is shining in the sky, there ain’t a cloud in sight
it stop raining, everybody's in the lane
and don’t you know, it’s a beautiful new day, hey”

Blu sang along with the music, first he stumbled, then sang fluently with the song, enjoying the feeling of having people watch and sing along. He started to dance with the beat of the music and then stopped.
There Azura was, standing out in front of the rest of the group of people around the stage quietly singing along to the music. Blu leaned down and stretched out his arm out, the other hesitating and then slowly taking it. He lifted her up on to the stage and continued singing.


“Runnin’ down the avenue, see how the sun shines brightly
In the city on the streets where once was pity
Mr.Blue sky is livin’ here today, hey”

The once again began to dance, both moving with the others movements, continuing to sing what words came on screen as they danced with each other all across the stage. People below the stage clapping and dancing along as well. And then the song finished and faded out. Cornelius climbed onto the stage, switched the machine off, and took the microphone away from Blu, “Well I think we know who our Karaoke winners are this year for the Lemon Festival.” He grinned and handed both Blu and Azura a small blue ribbon, “Now I would like to see anyone try and beat these two next year!”
Azura pulled Blu to the side and smiled,”Hey thanks for the candy...and well...thanks for the good time here. I overheard your fight with your friend and I uhmm...I’m sorry he was trying to control you but hey. Just because friends and others tell you to be something or to do something doesn’t mean you have to, you aren’t owned by them alright? You are you and you do what you want.”
Blu stayed quiet, and then hugged her,”You know...you’re the first person to say that to me. My dad was sorta abusive and after leaving him I bumped into Nigel. You saw how that went. Thanks for not being so rude to me like others have been.”
Azura nodded and took his hand. “Lets go, maybe I can give you a tour of my bakery.”

Blu and Azura had stayed together since then, never leaving each other's side. After many dates and lots of candyfloss taste testing the two married. Nigel learned to forgive and be forgiven and stopped trying to control Blu. And that is the story of the candy floss creator.
 


The author's comments:

 What had inspired this story was many things I suppose. Two of these things being people trying to control me and get me to do what they want and the other being one of my favorite songs, Mr.Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra.

I'm bullied every day by many different people in this school, and sure I could go to a teacher about it, but I've found that it never really does anything but makes the people who bully me target me more. They don't control me and they don't own me, so why should I listen to them right?
Thats why the moral of the story is what it is. Don't let people control you.
They can make fun of me all they want but just because they say things doesn't mean its actually true.
I've chosen the song Mr.Blue Sky because on occasion I actually like to listen to it when I'm down. Blu was a character I had created a very long time ago, surprisingly enough he was a pony back then like from the cartoon my little pony but because I loved his character so much I made him an actual person, keeping the name Blu Sky just because it still fit him well too me. His personality was based on my own  personality with a mix of something else.
Azura's name means Sky Blue, or so I've been told, and her last name means Little Blueberries. Her personality is based of that of someone I love quite a bit (I would name them but I don't think they would like that)
Nigel's full name is Nigel Lightheart. His last name Lightheart was a joke to the fact that hes not a nice person at all and people would assume he was just by his last name. Nigel is a very demanding person who would care less that his friend loves a person because Blu is his friend so that must mean he belongs to him.
It does say Nigel and Blu make amends in the end, but Blu would not forget what Nigel had done thats for sure.
Nigel's personality is based on a bully I had as a friend in elementary school before I realized they were a demanding bully.
Cornelius is just that character I always pictured in my head with a super fancy name but instead of being a posh fancy person hes super fun and bouncy. Thats why he owns the karaoke area. His personality is based off a great friend of mine today who is quite random and loves to try and get people into things.

I wen't through many ideas before writing this one. The first story I wanted to write was about a small mute girl by the name of Gladis being taught by her two friends Saley and Carolyn that being different doesn't mean you have to be ashamed.
Another story was about a detective character named David Winters learning that this man named Jarvis DeWitt that he was to arrest was not bad at all and only protecting cats from being abused.
The third idea was some what similar to the first but about a boy named Marshall who was afraid of the world and a young girl named Angel who teaches him that its not bad.
None of theses seemed to connect well with me and there were lots of points where I just couldn't right any more to them because it didn't sound right.
So a story about Blu Sky it was.
This is about all I've got to say about this story. I had quite a bit of fun writing it and hope that maybe it inspires people. or teens, who are being bullied as well to not be afraid and stand up for themselves, ignore what the bullies try to get you to do.

Hope you enjoy.


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