Lindsay

//Lindsay 11/17/10 // //#109 Derian Final RAFT Assignment // //Mary Elizabeth // //I love to watch people in the garden. When we moved here, my mom and I, she told me to meet people. I didn't want to be here, I wanted to be at my real home. Then I saw some kids my age, one specifically looked like he could help. I noticed he was working on a garden like mine back home in Ireland. I knew that he was the one, that he would be nice. //

//The next morning I went over to his garden and it was full of lettuce, dying lettuce. I asked him what happened but he gave me an answer I wasn't looking for. "It was my father, I wanted him to stop but he kept going. I didn't know what to do..." he went on and on. I asked him what his father had done. I got the same reply. "It was my father, I wanted him to stop but he kept going..." on and on. Again. //

//"Well, what is it about your father what was it he did?" I asked again. I thought I would get the whole it was my father thing just once more. //

//"Nothing, it's just, well, leave me alone okay." Then I knew that he had to be hiding something, that he felt bad about something, anything. I walked away wishing I could try again when I heard his voice. "Come back, please, What do you want?" he hesitated "Sorry about that I'm Virgil, What do you want?" //

//"Well first of all I'm Mary Elizabeth and when I saw you over here yesterday I thought that you would be nice, that you would be my friend. I guess not you won't answer me at all, what about your father can please just tell me?" I felt confused, I wasn't sure of what I'd said. //

//Virgil I think is his name was he started talking. He told me all about his Dad what he had done and everything I had asked about. I thought about the first reason I had wanted to talk anyway. Not realizing what I was saying, "I really only wanted to ask you if you would help me with a garden but you started talking about your father and I got annoyed but I didn't want to hurt your feelings so I just asked and tried to sound interested but I wasn't sure how to ask for help and and and... Will you help me or not?" //

//I was thinking about what I said knowing it sounded rude but I didn't care I needed help and I had my ways of getting it. I also sort of gave him a mixed up apology. I waited for an answer. Nothing, absolutely nothing. //

//Everything I had heard ran through my head. Why would Virgil want to help me after what I had said? He said his father was greedy and selfish, I thought over an idea and hoped it would work. "Okay I'm really sorry and I have a deal, you said you didn't like it when your father was greedy, right?" //

//"Right" //

//"So what if I let you have things from my garden when they are ready. Then maybe we could make it a pick for yourself, anyone could take what they want. You would have first pick and we would be making up for your fathers greed. Deal?" //

//"Deal" // media type="custom" key="7579493"