“Where have you been? We’re all worried sick! You were gone for hours!” Cat shakes my shoulders, somehow instilling her words in my head. I have no idea I have been away for that long, it feels like an hour instead of four.
I smile at her presenting the basket full of the plants I Jessebel and I picked from her grandmother’s garden. “I’m just out looking for these plants. Isn’t that our activity?”
Mrs. Meadows snatches away the basket from my hands. “Goodness heaven, you find all thirty in your list! How splendid? I’m going to make some tea out of this hibiscus!” The professor waltz happily away from us, following behind her is Mrs. Mildred who was glaring at me the moment I came out of the woods.
“Tell me the truth where have you been? Where did that basket come from?” Cat pulls my ri
