Trixie was mopey all day. She had stayed around Crab apple farm watching Bobby and even joining moms in the garden and with cleaning.
She just could not face the world, Dan, and most of all, what she had done.
She had hurt one of her best friends.
When her brothers took to comforting her, she couldn't help but feel that Dan was the one that needed it. In fact she was angry with herself, she didn't need sweet words.
Mart had of course questioned her about her and Dan's odd behaviours.
She didn't know what to tell him. She could only say that she had upset the older boy. There really wasn't any use of her telling him what she saw; Dan had seemed sensitive about it. Telling others would further devastate their friendship.
That is why Brian and Jim arrived at Crab Apple Farm a little after four, and saw her studiously working in the garden.
"Trixie, it looks like you are about to pass out! It is too hot out here; wait till later in the day." Moms called out to her daughter, also catching the attention of the two elder boys.
Said daughter only shook her head. She was punishing her self.
The two boys looked at her in astonishment. What had the world come to?
"Come on Trix." Brian stooped low taking the weeds out of her hands and pulled her up.
"Oh Brian, what should I do! I have been trying to keep my self occupied all day, but my thoughts keep going back to this morning….I've got to go and apologize!" She quickly exited the garden, aiming for the road. But Brian grabbed a hold of her arm, staying her.
"Your exhausted, get cooled off first."
All she could do was nod, and follow the two boys into the house.
She would make sure that she apologized to Dan as soon as she could, she couldn't believe she waited so long to do so.
Jim had been told the whole story, or the whole story as Brian knew it, on their way to school. He wasn't a curious type pf person by nature, but even this intrigued him.
Trixie and Dan had almost always gotten along, well ever since he saved her and Bobby. Infact they actually became quite close, which Jim was a little jealous of from time to time.
But the fact remained, neither had argued with each other in a while…at least not to his knowledge. And Dan had never driven her to tears, it was unusual to say the least.
He would have gone over and demanded what had happened from Dan as soon as school got out, but he couldn't help but think of his earlier conversation with Honey.
Trixie didn't need him, as much as he had hoped. And that was okay. So he left it alone.