Chapter 21: Agonizing SeedsIT HAD BEEN TRICKY for Janina to get away from her parents after the meeting this morning so she could have enough time to make Devante’s present. Her mother really wanted to do her hair, but she didn’t want her to see the damage the snow had done. She had styled it carefully to hide the frizziness that had resulted when her heat-straightened hair had met its enemy, water. She had no choice but to braid it again. But this time, she decided to have some fun with it, putting it in three braids that she twisted into knots that crowned her head, and letting two thin tendrils hang down from her forehead. She told Mama she could do it when she came back to visit next Friday. Making Devante’s gift was more important, and she had to do it today so that the paint would be
