Chapter 2 - Homestead
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When she awakes she sees that her granny left a note :
" I left for church, I know you didn't sleep very well. There is warm bread in the basket and carrot cake on the table. Me and Adele will come back by 13h, but if you want there's lunch on the oven too. kisses and behave "
-She does too much - she says out loud. But she thanks her, because she is starving. "Adele is with her so I can count on that annoying TV afternoon show tradition as well"
After eating braksfast she goes to take a shower, and she stops to look herself in the mirror. She is still a child, but is developing into a beautiful teen, and she knows that. She doesn't care about that much, though. Altough young she understand beauty as a tool to use when the time comes. Lily procedesse on taking a shower, puts her favourite pj's and right before sitting in her bed to basically do nothing she slaps her forehead: The geography assignment!
She runs downstairs and turns on her computer. She had a geography assignment due on Wednesday and had to work on it. She starts searching for the main topic : Silk Road.
- Not so much for Sunday Funday, huh?
Her sister walks in. Her face looks swollen, as if she had cried but she was the kind of person who would talk without me asking so Lily just nods and says "it is what it is" with a shrug. Their bond was pretty strained since our parents started going on this business trips. They had a cruise company callled Golden Crossing and in the last year they had a huge success, as they closed a deal with some insurance company in Florida.
She smirks and says:
- Well, I leve you to it.
As she leaves, Lily clicks in a blue link that says "Silk Road, beyond the financial interests - An exchange of cultures and horizons"
As she put the draft together she stumbled upon an image of a woman who caught her attention: she was dressed in a similar way to the woman of her dream. She understood that she was from some part of India because of the text below but she was so striken by the image that she decides to go save the page and leave the computer for a while.
She goes to the frontyard looking for the house cat and sees her sister talking to a woman she never had seen before. The lady has a calm posture and low voice so Lily can't hear what she says unless they see her first.
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