"I didn't!" Jared Woods shouted, but his voice lacked conviction.
"I've been watching you for a while! You've been sneaking strawberries!" Carina Sanders said angrily.
"Grandpa Warren said we could eat as many as we want! I wasn't sneaking them! Didn't you just eat a strawberry, too?" Jared Woods argued defensively.
"But you haven't finished your task, and you've been eating the whole time! I only ate one!" Carina Sanders was clearly furious with Jared Woods, her voice trembling slightly.
Naomi Kenway patted Carina's back and said lightly to Jared Woods, "You know, if you don't finish your task, you won't get any dinner."
The next second, Jared Woods sat up from the ground with a gloomy look on his face. "I'll pick them. I'll get to picking..."
About two hours later, the fruit and vegetable picking task was successfully completed. Before they left, Uncle Warren gave Naomi Kenway a large batch of vegetables.
