Inch Flat - Chapter Two

Today was like any other, wake up, do chores, go to lessons, do more chores. Then have dinner with Rosey. Only after my evening chores, Rosey had left a note telling me she would be late and to get dinner off the cooker. Oh and she had added “get to bed on time, you have lessons tomorrow.” Now why would she add that? I had been on time for all of my lessons for the last 3 weeks. I suppose she knew me too well. She must have sensed my caged Lion feeling. I hated lessons! I wanted to be free to roam the flat to discover what lie outside the boundaries. Thorn had set the boundaries for us flora. Some of us felt we had a right to know what else existed on the outside. One time Violet and I had ventured right up to one of the boundaries and then Heather saw us and told on us. She is such a fool. Of course Thorn made a special visit that night to Rosey. I was excused, of course, but I listening under the morning glory pots and heard him say “you know if she crosses she can never come back.” That was enough information for me, so when Rosey called me in for dinner I told her I had been to the boundary and had tried to look over it but that I did not see anything worth my time and came home. She only looked at me with her loving emerald eyes and said “If you are to go, I will let you leave, but understand that I will never care for another.” Then she hugged me and went to bed. That was very unusual, but I never ventured back to the boundary. To cause Rosey pain was not in any of my plans. I loved her and even if Thorn was a ‘thorn’ in my side with all his rules, something in her face scared me about the boundaries, something very wrong.