Into the rabbit hole (unfinished Draft)

6. The garden

Laufun

The garden was much larger from what I saw before through the window.

Dozens of dirt beds created a circle around a large tree, in between each dirt bed were little walking spaces made of wood planks. The two students were still down here moving mulch into bags. Everything that might have grown was already wilted due to it being fall of course.

"Hey!" Alice yells.

"Are you two in the agriculture club?"

"Wait maybe we should be a little less ...i dont know, confrontational" i say

"This'll work out trust me"

One of them turned to us, he had elven features and long sharp ears, his platinum blonde hair was cut into a buzz cut and his skin was gray.

"Whats it matter to you?!" he yells, his voice having a slight rasp to it.

"Well I'm the president of the agriculture club and you're packing the mulch all wrong!" she states with utmost confidence.

"Oh uh..." he stutters.

"What's both your names?" she commands

"Im price thats Jolyne" he says quickly.

"I've definitely never heard of you two"

"I uhhhh, heh, we just joined actually" he laughs nervously.

Jolyne still putting mulch in the bags. He taps her shoulder and she stands and looks at us. She was large and muscular, she had long braided hair coming down the side of her face, her face skin was the shade of freshly mowed grass, and she had large tusks poking up from her lower jaw. She had on a slight bit of makeup and towered over all of us.

Her eyebrows raised as she looked at us. Price then begins to make signs with his hands. She then signs back to him.

"Sorry Jolyne and I just joined yesterday"

"Yesterday was Sunday"

Jolyne slaps the back of Price's head. They then proceed to sign at each other aggressively.

"What I meant to say was last week, on Friday, hehe, yeah we spoke to uhhh, a girl named Lashawna, she told us we could start doing this today"

Alice's eyes squinted.

"Lashawna huh, alright, well you guys can keep going, don't let me bother you, I'm just here to tell you that you have to recycle the mulch not toss it away."

Jolyne grabs a journal from her pocket, and a pen. She begins to write something. She faces the journal towards us

"Not unless the mulch carries disease, this plot had lots of things that weren't supposed to go in, that could cause harm to the next batch of flowers put in, at least that's what Lashawna told us"

"Huh, alright my apologies, carry on then. Come in Laufun we'll be late to algebra '' Alice begins to walk away, I follow behind.

We get up a flight of stairs before she begins to speak again

"Those two were lying," she says to me.

"Thought that was obvious" I replied.

"Leshawna wasn't at school on Friday, I know cuz I have a couple classes with her, they probably saw some of the club posters and got her name from there"

"Right, plus you're the club president so you should know everyone there, right?"

"Oh, no I'm not the club president, I lied to see what they'd say, leshawna is"