A Storm of Strawberries by Cotterill

Author:Cotterill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: little bee books
Published: 2019-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

… coming home from school with a painting I’d done. I was really proud of it. It was a rainbow over meadows, and I’d done some sheep in the fields too. “Darby, that’s wonderful,” Mom said, giving me a hug. “I love it. We’ll put it up on the fridge.”

And then Kaydee came in from her school, holding a plastic art folder, and she said, “They let me bring this home now it’s been graded.” And she took it out … and it was this amazing, detailed pattern in black, white, and blue, filling the whole page. It must have taken hours and hours.

Mom was speechless for a moment. And then she said, “Kaydee, that’s absolutely incredible. Goodness, you clever thing.”

And all the happiness that had filled me up like a balloon came kind of leaking out. Because it was so, so much better than mine, and even though Kaydee is four years older, I knew that I would never, ever be able to do anything as good as that.

So later, when no one else was around, I took down my picture, tore it up, and hid it at the bottom of the garbage. And when Mom asked me if I knew what had happened to it, I pretended I didn’t.

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