Ms. Lilly, 2/?

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She didn’t talk to Ms.
Lilly after class next day, or the day after that either. If there was one
thing that she learned from Grunkle Stan (well, she learned lots of things from
him but-), it was that it wouldn’t do for the mark know how eager you were, how
interested.

“They need to come to
you kid,” he had told her one day when she was eight and she had interrupted a
high stakes game of poker in the Library on accident. “They’re fish, and you’re
the fisherman. Now hand me that card off the floor.”

She couldn’t quite do
that since Ms. Lilly was her teacher and a person in authority, so after a
week, she stayed behind after class, staying in her desk even as her sister and
friend and classmates left.

Ms. Lilly finished
erasing the chalkboard and turned around. Today she wearing a white dress with
long sleeves that cinched at her waist, and a necklace with a black lacquered
rose hanging from the chain.

“Oh, my goodness, hello
Willow darling! I did not see you there.”

Willow looked down,
feigning shyness. “I…I thought about what you offered me…” she started
tentatively, hesitating between words.

Ms. Lilly moved across
the room, sitting down in the desk next to Willow, a look of grave concern on
her face.

“Willow, this is a big
step you are taking, it’s okay to have taken your time to think about it.” She
took Willow’s hand in hers, cold and clammy. “I’m not mad darling, I promise.”

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