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The rain was teeming down, bouncing off the roofs of the settlement, and Wren’s mother was concerned when Wren said that she still wanted to go to the library.
“You’ll get soaked, even with an umbrella. Why don’t you stay at home today, in the dry?”
Wren didn’t want to stay at home, but she had no plans to go to the library either. No matter what the weather was, she was determined to meet up with Jerome that afternoon. Her father would be back later that night and there were still three days of her punishment to go. She hoped that he would lift the ban on leaving the settlement early, but she wasn’t banking on it. So she would go to Jerome’s apartment and make the most of her time with him;
“I’ll be okay, mum. It’s only water. It’s hardly going to kill me.”
It was a good job that
