One More Butterfly

 'One More Butterfly' is a novel that just sprang to my mind, so here I am, typing it onto my blog. I like this one so much, I think it will be the next one I do!
Emily Jackson is a nine-year-old redhead. Well, she was a redhead. Cancer took away the gift of brushing or braiding her hair. She loves butterflies-a lot- in fact, she raises them. Then lets them free.
    Derek Lingford is a neighbor of the Jacksons. He's the town drunk, married to a good wife and well, he hates life like Esther, his daughter. His daughter is thirteen and lives a bad life. She constantly has to do everything. She doesn't even want to live anymore! Derek isn't a good husband or father and he wastes all the money that his wife and daughter earns. But when Emily Jackson stops coming outside to play, he wonders what happend to her.
  When the horrid news comes to him, he starts to send the little girl flowers and cards. She writes back to him. Then he decides to visit her. As lifes change, God works his way into many people's hearts. But when Emily Jackson comes to live back at home, instead of the Cooks Childrens Center.
   She keeps raising butterflies. But one day, she tells Derek something that he doesn't under stand at the time. "There's only one more butterfly" she whispers not exactly to him, but to the cacoon in the net house. "Then get more" he suggests. She smiles sadly at him, and she just shakes her head.
   From that day on, lives changed forever. Nothing will be the same. Hearts will change. "Never ever will things be the same" whispers Emily, smiling.
    Will Derek and Esther let God into their hearts? Or will they stay in the same sad life?