Stronger by Ang Chris

Chapter 19

“What would you like to start with?” Elizabeth asked as we walked from my house that morning.

“I typically start my day in the field tending to the crops,” I told her.

I didn’t know where the entrance to the fields was and they produced a lot more food than my pack did.

“We have two sets of crops. There are the crops for the pack and the crops for the market. Which one would you like to tend to?” she turned her head to look at me.

“I don’t know how to drive a tractor, so the crops for the pack,”

“Would you like to learn?”

I suppose I should. “Of course but not today I don’t think,” I nodded my head.

“Alright well, I will speak with one of the farmers to see if they’d be willing to teach you,”

We headed past the many houses of the pack and to an acre that held a garden, a vine plot, and in the back what looked to be an orchard.

“We grow many vegetables, fruits, grapes, apples, and pears,” explained.

“Put me to work,” I nodded.

Their crops were far behind my family’s pack. Most hadn’t been planted. It was still pretty chilly out. I had on my one sweater and jeans. My rubber garden boots were a must obviously.

I rolled up my sleeves and put on a gardening apron and got to work. I grabbed a hand tiller, went to a plot, and worked the ground. It hadn’t fully thawed yet so I grabbed a hoe to break up the tougher dirt.

I grabbed bags of manure when I was done and spread them over the 12–foot square plot. Then I grabbed the rake and dug groves into the soil,

I was planting beets on this plot. I put them about 6 and 4 inches apart. I planted them half an inch down and covered them up. I watered the crops and dusted off my hands.

“To the training house. I feel like a run and box,” I told Elizabeth who had finished a plot of radishes before me.

“Of course,”

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house,” I told her. “I’ll meet

course Luna,” she nodded

tended it almost made it taste better. I like the dirt on

the hard work of yours went into something it was prideful and content.

of my new empty home. It was full of furniture and had room for everything.

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see the potential for sunny days and cozy moments but it felt like the end

and vast room to get

and calves of the

*Perfect

to the gym putting my hair up in

had to make a standing here

were curious but I didn’t know

the above gym track

Their faces so endeared to

got to be so happy? She gets a man who can’t even her soulmate to love her so wholly and I am left on an island with no

drowning out everyone else. Trying to find peace within myself but the loneliness pushed through the cracks I couldn’t

to down to find an open punching bag.

doing

with the bag after wrapping my hands. I took a deep breath and growled at this inanimate target of

mine.

I had in muscles and my mind at it.

into it and kicked it ruthlessly. I had so much I couldn’t understand or comprehend and it

A voice interrupted my music and

looked over my shoulder and Matt had his brows knit together

can’t feel it,” I turned back to the bag and

doesn’t trust easily,” Matt came and held the bag for me.