Penny walked towards the garden to watch the blossoms sway freely in the wind and she became jealous of them. When she was ready, she remembered that he had talked about an adjacent room. She walked to the door of the room that was closed. Books… It was time to check out the books he kept, but she didn’t even know how to read well. She had dropped out of the school when she was eleven, just after her first grade. Her parents didn’t have enough money to pursue her education. Her mother said that she would homeschool her, but even that never happened.
