Lucky Leaves

Yesterday, my family had a cook out. My family came over as well as my friend Megan and her family. During the day while we were cooking food and getting everything ready, my dad came in with a glass of water. I looked at him as he held the glass out to me. 

"No thanks. I'm good," I said pushing the small glass away. 

"Look what I found," he said shoving the glass in my face again.

I looked down at the small glass and a dark green stem stuck out of it. Attached to the thin stem were four leaves. I shook my head. A four leaf clover. 

My mom walked over. "Where'd you find that?"

"The backyard," he said putting the glass down. "Must be my lucky day."

Today I took Baker outside. While he was doing his business, I looked down at the patch of clovers. I thought about the weekend I spent in Indianapolis a few weeks ago. My Aunt Marie let us stay with her for the weekend. She took us downtown to the Riverwalk and to see the city. While we were there she stopped and started searching through this persons grass. My mother, Linn, and I kept walking. We sat down on a bench. 

Linn looked over at my Aunt. "What's she doing?" Linn asked as my aunt hunched over the patch of grass.

"Probably looking for four leaf clovers. She does that," my mom said.

I laughed thinking it was a joke, but a few moments later, Aunt Marie came walking over with a small green clover between her fingers that proudly showed its four leaves. 

I starred in disbelief. "How did you find that?" I asked.

"She finds them all the time," my mom said looking up at the trees.

"I do," Aunt Marie laughed. "I don't know. It's weird. Once you find one, you find them all."

I had laughed at her then but as I was thinking of the clover she found, I noticed a small clover with four leaves. I hit it gently waiting for another clover below it to pull away and take away the allusion of four leaves. Another clover didn't pull away though. I stooped down and picked the green clover and sure enough it had four leaves. I smiled. "Must be my lucky day," I said to myself as my dog came running up to see what I had found.