it sweetie, as long as you're happy then you have no problem .” Her mother would always wistfully tell her. It started to confuse her even more when she was growing up, and by the age of 8 she would constantly tell her mother ‘ I love your eyes, they're the color of the forest.” Once again her mother sighed and lectured her about how she shouldn’t talk about colors in front of anyone else, and once again, it confused Emma.
At the age of 9 Emma's mother bought her a miniature paint set for Christmas at the local run down arts and crafts store, and as she started painting it confused others. She would always say ‘ these colors look so bright’ or ‘ this yellow is as vivid as the sun.’ She would always talk about the glistening colors drenching the canvas, and once again, nobody knew what she meant.
At the age of 10 Emma noticed that nobody else saw colors.
This one realization ruined her imagination and pure creativity. She would paint in only black and white and pray that she would wake up just like everybody else. The kids at school were always making fun of her for describing these lunatic ‘ colors ‘ and she was known as the laughing stock of Madison Elementary. She found this out when she was about to go to bed Thursday night. Her mother called her into her room and explained to her that everyone else, even herself saw only black and white, and nobody but poor Emma saw color. As realization struck she started sobbing and crawling into her mother’s arms. She fell asleep that night, still confused as to why she was born this way, but she tried to block those thoughts
out.
The next morning she got ready for school wearing all black and white. When her mother asked why she was acting so different she said “ If everyone can only see in black and white then why would i bother dressing any different.” This hit her mother hard, she thought that telling Emma would make her happy and excited to be different, but it ending up ruining everything. For the next week she wore black and white consistently and the bullying laid off.
From that day on Emma lost her happiness. She was no different than anyone, and even if she didn’t see black and white, she felt just like it.