Submission (#1790) Approved

Why was gardening so darn hard?! Cecilia couldn’t understand any part of this earthen activity and she was absolutely horrified that the plants she had lovingly bought from her friends had begun to wilt and die. Why? Hadn’t she given them enough water? Did she maybe add a bit too much sugar?

She wasn’t sure!

With a little grumbly frown she brought the three potted plants out from her balcony, staring at their withered brown leaves in despair. Her friends were going to come over and they were going to realize she’d let the plants die and then everyone was going to be upset! She couldn’t have that…

So the alien cow began to look through her painting supplies, pawing through them until she found every shade of green that she had, and then she sat down. She studied pictures of plants and leaves in one of her many encyclopedias and slowly began to paint on the dying leaves, doing her best to make them look similar to how they looked before she had disappointed them. The leaves were dripping with green paints and looked strangely wrinkled but.. She assumed it would be fine!

As long as she put them into a shadier corner of her room, her guests would never notice her failure!

But obviously, the guests immediately noticed that there were green dripping plants behind the couch.. Though they all, as a group, decided to not mention it to the paint splattered cow.