AUTHOR'S NOTE: Sorry about mass uploading. There's twelve new chapters all at once, so if there's spelling errors and stuff, I apologize. Apart from that, I'm being busy with Univeristy applications and scholarship programs so that's why I hadn't uploaded recently. Sorry about that, I hope you guys enjoy this story more and more as I get into the nitty-grittiness!
PoP: ch 21 – Pots [cont.]
Penny returns home, cradling the pot in her arms. Before her house she stops and stares at the building. Mr. Ironwood has his operations located in this house, even though he doesn't live here. Mr. Bernard lives there, as do several other chemists and scientists that Penny believes to be researchers, but they're changed out frequently on some kind of system designed by Ironwood and her father.
As massive as the house is and as well maintained it is, Penny realizes that it appears empty, unoccupied with closed windows and undisturbed walkways. Penny wasn't sure if anyone even used the house now that she thinks about it. Regardless, she walks down the trotted path she's made to the gazebo she lives under in the backyard. Even here, she realizes under her gazebo, there's nothing suggesting life. No people, no walking path, patio chairs and table sit undisturbed with accumulating dust and plants that have actually started to weather down, unattended to.
Penny stood in the center of the gazebo and realized she couldn't take the plant inside, not if she wanted the thing to grow. The plant needs sunlight and air, and Penny didn't need those things and didn't have them in her room. Penny glances around before looking up, realizing where the perfect spot would be.
A moment later, Penny stood away from her gazebo and gazed at the scene of the heart vine in its pot atop her doorway, pleased.