Seventeen
TODAY IS DECLARED AN UNSCHEDULED HOLIDAY. Jonas, his parents, and Lily all turned in surprise
and looked at the wall speaker from which the announcement had come.
It happened so rarely, and was such a treat for the entire community when it did.
Adults were exempted from the day’s work, children from school and training and volunteer hours.
The substitute Laborers, who would be given a different holiday, took over all the necessary tasks:
nurturing, food delivery, and care of the Old; and the community was free.
Jonas cheered, and put his homework folder down. He had been about to leave for school.
School was less important to him now; and before much more time passed, his formal schooling would end.
But still, for Twelves, though they had begun their adult training,
there were the endless lists of rules to be memorized and the newest technology to be mastered.
He wished his parents, sister, and Gabe a happy day, and rode down the bicycle path, looking for Asher.
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