by Nicholas Nikolov

Created on: January 14, 2009

A happy little girl with sparkling glittering eyes like the twinkling stars in the night skies and a sweet dimpled smile with plump rosy cheeks. She and her family of three: her mother Anna and her step-father Tom; they lived in a beautiful quaint-little mountain city of Smolyan surrounded by the majestic rolling massive mountains of Rhodope region.

There was a lovely green garden of many growing vegetables. A chicken-coop filled with the bickering crazy-clucking chickens and hens squabbling, filled in the filthy pig-pen fences were snorting-grunting pigs and squealing piglet's rolling around the dirty mud, three chocolate-brown cows mooing away, and the two most adorable fluffiest and puffiest lambs. One of the lambs had wool as white as snow and the other lamb had wool as black as night.

"Daddy, mommy, can I name them."

"Okay sweetie."

"I will name them Chernushko and Belushko."

One day in the late-afternoon, just before supper, the pretty little girl had the responsibility to take care of Chernushko and Belushko to take them to the pasture all by herself. This was a very big job for any little seven year old girl.

For an hour or more the little girl joyfully played with the two playfully frolicking lambs, feeding them with treats, adoringly hugging them with great love, and softly brushing their wool; she repeatedly whispered to them "I love you both so much Chernushko and Belushko." She was keeping a close eye on them encase they run-off, that was until a bunch of nearby neighbourhood children distracted the little girl from watching over her pets as she went to play with the children because she was bored and joyfully playing away from the pasture.

The little joyful girl was having so much fun with her friends playing and running around for a very long time, that when she came back to the pasture where she left her pet lambs alone; they were not there any more. The happy little girl with rosy cheeks was now feeling sad and began to cry as she looked and looked and looked and shouting "Chernushko, Belushko!" over and over again, but she could not find them. The little girl hurried home as it was getting dark.

When the little girl came home her loving parents hugged her and kissed her.

"Tell me baby, what's wrong?" the little girls' mother asked.

"I, I, I, know I had watch Chernushko and Belushko, but there were other kids and I ran-off playing with them and when I came back to the pasture and they were gone." The little girl cried and sniffled. Her step-father began to shout and yell at her. The helpful neighbours heard Tom shouting and the little girl crying and came into the house

"Hey, what happened, Tom?" the neighbours asked.

"She lost two lambs in the pasture." The little girls' mother said as Tom continued to shout at the little girl.

"Sorry my friendly neighbours, but could all of you be so kind as to help us find them now" Tom said

"Iliyana, because you were responsible for the two lambs and since you lost them because you were playing instead of paying attention, you will lead us to find Chernushko and Belushko, okay?" he asked.

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