Evie & the ElemMates by Leslie Wallant

Author:Leslie Wallant [Wallant, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wallant Design
Published: 2014-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Gathering in the Garden

By the next week the Science Fair excitement died down. Evie and the other lab assistants met at the Blast Site and in the school lab. Up in the northeast, spring usually didn’t arrive until the end of April, but the plants at the site that had sprouted in November had miraculously flourished and grown all through the winter. Still wearing their winter jackets in the early spring afternoons, the group studied plants more than the stones. “Maybe we should call this place The Garden not The Blast Site anymore,” Evie suggested. They promoted the idea by painting some signs and nailing them up around the borders.

Her favorite cliffs were transformed. The Blast Site, land now acknowledged to belong to the Sparks family was officially renamed Sparks Garden. The family and town created a fund for its upkeep and preservation.

Meanwhile her “crystal palace” sculpture had stealthily grown despite its inanimate materials. Evie borrowed the lab spectroscopy analyzer to find the craft materials had reverted back to the real minerals and growing with no way to stop it. Soon it broke the base of its pedestal in the Town Hall. Everyone agreed the sculpture belonged in Sparks Park. It was placed on the bluffs of the original Blast Site.

One day coming in late, her Mom sat glumly at the kitchen table in the dim evening light.

“Oh, Mom, you ok? You mad at me? So sorry I didn’t check in. What did you do today?”

Her distracted Mom said, “Guess I’m overwhelmed with organizing this Conference on top of my work. Besides all the publicity for Sparks Park, I’m trying to do a million things. The big day is only a month and a half away. Just a little stressed, that’s all. Anyway, I’m going to get some work done here. Do you have homework to do? Would you mind getting dinner going?” Dismissing Evie and her needs, her mother rose heavily from her chair and out to her greenhouse.

Evie brewed her Mom a cup of tea and brought it out to her with some crackers and cheese. She admired her mother’s self discipline and organizing skills. She watched her mother type away on her computer, her wavy, black hair in a ponytail.

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