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Chapter Twelve
Rain entered Weather House with a lot on her mind. Cloud’s comment at the beginning of class had her distracted the entire time Mother Swan was lecturing, so now she had two quizzes to prepare for. She flew up the stairs to her level, down the hall, and pushed through the door without giving a second thought to what might be happening on the other side of the door.
Mist was sitting on her bed, but she wasn’t alone. Another girl--woman was probably a better word since she was a couple of years older than them--was sitting next to her. They both looked up, caught off guard, as Rain stopped in the doorway, and she thought she saw Mist move something underneath her pillow.
“Hi, Sunny,” Rain said, closing the door behind her and pretending like she wasn’t shocked to see Mist had company. In all of the years they’d roomed together, which was most of them, she couldn’t ever remember her best f
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All day, Rain listened to discussions between the other girls in the hallways, before class started, in the restroom, everywhere she went, trying to get an idea as to whether or not anyone else knew what Cloud was alluding to the night before. But she didn’t hear so much as a stray whisper that made her think anything was going down at the medical building that day. She even hinted to Cloud that she thought there was some gossip, but her friend had no idea what she was getting at.By the time she was making her way over to IW that afternoon, she’d resolved herself to the idea that Sunny and Mist were nuts. Either that or whatever had been in the works had gone wrong or been discovered. She approached the changing rooms concentrating more on getting this over with so she could go finish up her homework as opposed to actually being worried about some kind of coup on the part of the younger women.Making her selection had not b
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The man on the chair had removed his shadow sock. He stared at her, his blue eyes like sapphires as he blinked a few times, adjusting to the light. He was even more handsome than she had thought he might be, with a square jawline and a perfect nose. His hair was a sandy blond, short but wavy on top. He sat up, placing the black shadow sock over his manhood. It looked as if he might be considering getting out of the chair.“I know martial arts!” Rain shouted, bringing her hands around in front of her and taking a stance like the Mother who had trained her to protect herself had shown her. “You’re not supposed to move!”The corner of his mouth twitched slightly, as if her statement somehow amused him. “Relax, I’m not going to try to hurt you.”Rain’s eyes enlarged at the sound of his voice. It wasn’t anything like what she expected a man’s voice to sound l
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“Rain?” he repeated, his blue eyes wide as he spoke her name.“Yes.”The alarms were still sounding in the hall, and the announcer came on again to remind them not to speak to one another. “We expect to be fully operational again in fifteen to twenty minutes,” the voice explained. Rain sighed and sank to the floor, being sure to keep her dress pulled down. It was going to be a long fifteen to twenty minutes, and she doubted that was accurate. Chances were, it would be longer.“I’ve read about that.” He was looking off in the distance, at the wall, as if there was a window there, and he could see outside. “Sometimes, when it comes down hard, I can hear it on the roof.”She realized then what he meant--the rain. “You’ve never seen it?”24C shook his head. “I’ve never seen anything, Rain.&rdq
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Rain decided she needed to find something else to talk to 24C about, other than her friendship with Mist. Still sitting on the floor, waiting for the Mothers to unlock the door, she pondered whether or not to ask him more questions, but the only one she could think of at the moment seemed silly.“It sounds pretty amazing out there.” He had that far off tone to his voice, like he was imagining a wonderful world where people could do whatever they liked, which wasn’t quite the case, but compared to his reality, it was close.“It’s not bad. Better than in here. What do you wear in the workout room? You don’t….”“Walk around naked all day?”Rain dropped her eyes, feeling her face redden yet again. She didn’t mean to think about him in a workout room, lifting weights, completely nude, but the image was there just the same.
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The door to the insemination room clicked shut behind her with a definitive echo, as if to say the conversation that had transpired within could never be accessed again. Another Mother was giving directions in a stern tone, and Rain did her best to pay attention. The lights in the hall seemed brighter than usual, and the ones that ran along the floor were flashing. In the distance, she heard a chirping noise, some sort of an alarm. “Go straight into the changing area, get dressed, and leave via this hallway on the left immediately. Go straight to your boarding house and remain in your room until the all clear is sounded. Do you understand?”Rain looked at the Mother closely then and realized it was Mother White, the woman she’d thought had been looking at her oddly the other day. Her eyes enlarged slightly, but Rain did her best to hide her surprise. Or was it fear?Creases above the woman’s upper lip protruded a
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The door was locked. Rain pushed in a code she couldn’t remember having used in years and was relieved when the door popped open. Her three roommates watched with wide eyes as she entered the room, their faces relaxing once they saw that it was only her and not a mob of rebels, although, she had a feeling Mist wouldn’t be too upset if it had been.The other two women, Breeze and Gale, were sitting on Breeze’s bed, the top bunk above Mist, holding on to each other with pillows squeezed to their chests. Mist was sitting on her own bed with her tablet in her hand, as if nothing unusual were happening in the world. If it hadn’t been for the look in her eyes as Rain came through the door, she would’ve thought she wasn’t concerned at all.Questions bombarded her before she could even get the door closed and hang her backpack up. Gale and Breeze alternated asking her how she was, where she’d been, what
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Mist had a weary look in her eyes as she slowly got up off of her bed and walked across the room. Rain was fairly certain the expression had nothing to do with the possibility that their roommates might walk back in at any moment. Locking the door wouldn’t do any good since their roommates had codes to punch into the door the same way that Mist and Rain did.From where she sat on her own bed, it was hard to see what Mist was doing. Rain didn’t want to alarm her by walking over and interfering, so she waited patiently. Her roommate was kneeling on the floor near one of the windows, next to a desk any of them could use when they needed it, and it sounded like maybe she was pulling up one of the baseboards. A few seconds later, Mist came back, sitting next to Rain on her bed with a familiar-shaped item, wrapped in a white towel.Rain held her breath as she watched Mist carefully unwrap whatever it was she’d found in the c
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