Three Cherry Trees

Three Cherry Trees is a short story written by A.R. Shanks.

The story is about a boy named Chris who meets the mysterious, new teacher, Mister Hibiki.

Mister Hibiki oversees his detention one day and asks Chris to help him plant the three cherry trees that happen to be out in the schoolyard.

It turns out that these trees are rainbow cherry trees, the last of their kind and once winter comes, the trees will die. They only have a week before the ground becomes too hard to di

g in. But Mister Hibiki only gave Chris three detentions. As it turns out, those three detentions are enough time for the two of them to save two of the three trees, but not all of them.

By the end of the story, Chris returns to see Hibiki digging on his own to save the last cherry tree and decides to help, despite having served his time in detention.

A.R. Shanks wrote on Wattpad that this was a story about redemption and it was hinted that Mister Hibiki was trying to redeem himself. It is unclear what he had done previous to this to make him want to save the cherry trees.

There are also some very bizarre hints in the story that might connect it to the Chronicles from Those with Responsibilities. This, however, has not been confirmed.