The Wild Journey of Juniper Berry by Chad Morris;Shelly Brown

Author:Chad Morris;Shelly Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shadow Mountain Publishing
Published: 2023-07-11T23:01:02+00:00

Alayna walked in front of me to school, listening to the white rocks in her ears. I needed to talk to her before we got closer to the school and she started acting like we didn’t know each other.

I walked closer to her than three house lengths, then got closer, and closer, and tapped her on the shoulder.

She let out a squeak and jumped. I guess because of the white rocks in her ears she didn’t hear me coming. I wasn’t fox-walking or anything. In the woods, a mountain lion could have snuck up on her with no problem. A moaning bobcat with only one leg probably could have too. She might even be surprised by a booming thunderstorm.

“I don’t know you, remember?” Alayna said, pulling out one of the rocks then putting it back in. “You’re walking too close.” We were walking past houses a little smaller than Ken’s cabin.

“We’re not at school yet,” I said. “And here,” I held out three of the prettiest flowers I had ever seen. They weren’t the yarrow I had been looking for our whole walk, but I thought they might help. These flowers’ petals were large and pink, like a sunset. We didn’t have these flowers in the woods.

Alayna had told me before that it was good to give flowers to people, or at least it was better than giving bugs. I hoped that she liked these.

“What is this?” she asked, clearly surprised by the flowers.

“Flowers,” I said. Alayna asked really obvious questions sometimes. “They’re to say sorry for climbing the tree and embarrassing you.” I was trying to be nice like Sky.

Alayna looked at me and then down at the flowers and smelled them. She held them out a little, and then wouldn’t let her mouth smile.

“I have questions,” I said. Not only did I have to find yarrow, but I heard Zephyr talking with Clara last night before we left the hospital. They were speaking quietly, but Zephyr said it would take him months to earn enough to pay for Hawk’s doctor stuff, and I definitely didn’t want to stay months. I needed to help but I didn’t really know how.

Money, yarrow, take care of Tiger, and not get kicked out of school. That’s what I had to do.

“I have questions too,” Alayna said. “Did you get these flowers from the Garcia’s house, like five houses back that way?” She pointed the way we came.

I looked behind us. “Maybe.” I admitted.

She started laughing. “You can’t just pick other people’s flowers.”

“They weren’t anyone’s flowers,” I said. “They were just in the ground in front of the pathway, and there were plenty left so they’ll still drop seed for next year.”

Alayna crinkled her nose at me. “These flowers were in someone’s ground. Someone else planted them and watered them.”

In our family we planted and watered food but not flowers. They just grew in the woods. As long as I didn’t pick them all so they wouldn’t go back to seed, I could pick them whenever I wanted.

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