I’d just say I was on some important errand for the Receiver. I’d say it was all your fault that I was out after hours,” Jonas teased.
They both laughed a little nervously. But Jonas was certain that he could slip away, unseen,
from his house, carrying an extra set of clothing.
Silently he would take his bicycle to the riverbank and leave it there hidden in bushes with the clothing folded beside it.
Then he would make his way through the darkness, on foot, silently, to the Annex.
“There’s no nighttime attendant,” The Giver explained. “I’ll leave the door unlocked.
You simply slip into the room. I’ll be waiting for you.”
His parents would discover, when they woke, that he was gone.
They would also find a cheerful note from Jonas on his bed, telling them that he was going for an early morning ride along the river;
that he would be back for the Ceremony. His parents would be irritated but not alarmed.
They would think him inconsiderate and they would plan to chastise him, later.
They would wait, with mounting anger, for him; finally they would be forced to go, taking Lily to the Ceremony without him.
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