CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
The dog barked before running for it as the stacks rolled toward it. The boy and the girl were on their stomachs, bouncing, being thrown from stack to stack. The stack collapsed until a few remained rolling, leaving the girl hanging as it rolled back to the boy’s direction. The boy fell and pulled the girl falling onto him before the stack rolled on both leaving them laying in the field. The girl released, biting the rose plant, but they remained holding hands. They both burst into laughter as the dog barked hysterically, circling them. Evelina looked at Alex and plunged a kiss as he removed the rose plant from his mouth. They lay side by side in the field, laughing as the dog hysterically barked at them.
A barefooted Evelina rubbed the tips of the flower buds with bot
