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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I told her. “I’ll

nodded

growing your own food knowing you had planted it and tended it almost made it taste

yours went into something it

washed my hands in the deep sink of my new empty home. It was full of furniture and had room for everything. There were no memories here though.

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potential for sunny days and cozy moments but it felt like the end of a race, impossible to reach

to my new and vast

it had sheer lines on the arms and calves of the two–pieces. It was

*Perfect

my hair up in

to find my way. I had to make a standing here yet the task seemed daunting with only a handful of people who

they were curious but

I sought out Elizabeth who was standing on the above gym

her waist. Their faces so

heart twisted in spite. How come they 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

to find peace within myself but the loneliness pushed through the cracks I couldn’t patch.

down to find

not doing me any good,

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

mine.

b*dy weight into my punches throwing all I had in muscles and my mind at it. I huffed and grunted at the

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

to fight back right?” A voice interrupted my music and my thoughts.

looked over my shoulder and Matt had his brows knit together looking at the

can’t feel it,” I turned back to

doesn’t trust easily,” Matt came