The Victory Garden By R.E. Bertlow

An excerpt from: The Victory Garden




Megan and Kimie were the best of friends. As a matter of fact they lived right next store to each other in the same living complex on in a low rise building on avenue 30.

Megan and Kimie did everything together. They went to the same school, went shopping for school clothes together, went to the movies on Sunday together but; their very favorite thing to do together was plant flowers in their garden, for the living complex they lived in had a community garden and many of the people living their had their own little spot to plant flowers or vegetable and such. Megan and Kimie loved to plant beautiful flowers. Ones with long stems that they could pick and put in vases. Ones that smelled pretty and would fill the air with their scent.

These two girls loved to spend time in there garden so much so that their fathers who were both carpenters built them matching garden benches with their names on them that also doubled as a garden box to keep their matching gardening gloves, trowels seed packs and such in them.

Every Saturday morning you could find the girls down in their garden they had planted tall sunflowers on one side that were three feet high, They had Poppy’s and Freesias, Pansy’s and Bachelors Buttons, Gladiolas, and Tulips, and oh what a wonderful garden they had with much more room to plant new things.

When there mothers were looking for them they knew right where to find them in their garden sitting on their benches trying to decide what to plant next, or trying to figure out a name for their garden.

Megan and Kimie would sit in their garden and read stories and talk and play for hours and always looked forward to Saturdays. Where they would start their gardening day by trying to find two heart shaped items to place in their garden because they knew every garden needs a heart. Sometimes the would give some of there heart shaped found objects away to the other gardeners so that their gardens two would have a heart and produces as many beautiful things as their garden did. And they always got a nice thank you and their parents where always told what wonderful little girls they where.

One Saturday while sitting in the garden reading stories and trying to decide on a name for their garden. Kimie went to stand up but instead she fell down. Megan looked at her and said Kimie you can be so silly. But Kimie wasn’t being silly and she told Megan so. Megan ran off to get their mommies and the came and took Kimie to the hospital.

Megan sat in here garden worried about her friend wondering what had happened.

Later that afternoon when Megan’s mom came down to the garden. She sat next to her daughter and explained that Kimie had cancer but she was going to be all right because they caught it early. She told here they could go see her in the morning.

The next morning they went to see Kimie but before they did Megan stopped by their garden and picked a beautiful bouquet of flowers to
take to here best friend.