The town name came at noon.Lily-Rose was wringing a shirt in the basin when the phone buzzed. She dried her hands on her skirt, went to the back room, and shut the door with her hip.Sienna: I am in [the next town]. Small room above a shop. I can stand. I am not asking you tonight. If you come, come in light. If you cannot, I am still out. That is the first thing.Lily-Rose sat on the bed. Water dripped from her wrist onto the sheet. She did not pack.She opened the door and found the other girl first.“She sent the place,” Lily-Rose said. “Next town. A room above a shop. She said not tonight. Light only, if I go.”The girl closed her book.“You tell Ma. Then you tell Jimmy at the gate. Not in a car. Not in front of the little one.”His mother came in with a peg in her hand. Lily-Rose said it again, slower.His mother put the peg on the table.“You don’t leave this house today. Tomorrow we talk hours. If you go, she walks you to the bus.” She tipped her head at the other girl. “You a
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