There once was a princess who lived with her four brothers in a castle on an island in a lake. The princess loved flowers, especially sweet peas, so one day her well-meaning brothers gave her some sweet peas to plant outside her window.
The princess planted the sweet peas, imagining how beautiful they would be when they grew to be flowers. "I want some to be pink, some to be blue, some to be red, some to be purple and some to be white," she thought.
That night the sweet peas grew and grew. The princess slept past her alarm, for the sweet peas were already blocking the sun from her bedroom window! When she awoke, she thought it was still night, but feeling rested, she got up and looked out the window.
What a strange sight awaited her: nothing but sweet pea vines filled and effectually blocked the sunlight from her bedroom window! With a cry, the princess ran out to see the marvelous sweet pea plants.
Far above her head, the vines were putting forth blossoms in all the colors she had hoped to see: pink, blue, red, purple and white! The huge blossoms withered and transformed into seed pods, which grew to an enormous size, bursting with loud fireworks of seeds, which hailed down all around the princess.
Sadly, one such seed landed rather heavily upon the princess herself, and she suffered a mortal blow. As she breathed her last, her four brother gathered round and exclaimed, "Alas, our sister is killed by a falling sweet pea! She must have been a real princess!
