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Pulling her jacket tighter around her small body, Lily raced through the crowded streets of London. How on a day like this, cold and wet, there could be so many people about, was quite beyond her. She wanted nothing more than to go back home to granny Aggie, but she had promised Linda to meet her by the barber shop in Brixton Road. After exchanging a quick hug, Linda, who was about three years older than Lily, had told her about the nice lad she had seen by the docks the day before and now wanted Lily to help her find him again. She snicked as she remembered the blush her friend had been trying so hard to hide. Lily really had no interest in boys at all, they were mostly just annoying anyway, but she had promised to help her friend.
Now, she was on her way back home when she almost ran into two of her fellow Irregulars. "Paul, Ian!" she called out and grinned at them, though her smile quickly dropped off her face at their expressions. "Is everything alright, mates?" she asked worry colouring her voice.