A year went by. Lily had the Memories of love, loss, sorrow, pain, pleasure, romance, colors, and countless others. Lily grew depressed and felt so alone. No one knew how she felt except The Giver. She still wanted to share her feelings and how much pain she had stuck inside her.
All Lily wanted was to have her beloved brother Jonas back, and when she wasn't thinking about that it was Asher, who was now a Seventeen, that she wanted. Lily still wasn't taking the Pills, but she lied to her parents and said she was.
Asher was so tall and handsome. A blush would fill her cheeks everytime she thought of him. She had dreams about him so often now, and everyday she fell in love with him more - even if she didn't see him.
Lily always felt shy around Asher now. She was getting more and more desprete to have him until it hurt. It felt like she was floating and her head was always spinning at the slightest thought of him. Her heart would leap everytime she saw him.
Lily was thinking of a way that they could be together. Finally she came to the decision that she would take away the Pills he was probably forced to take so he wouldn't have the Stirrings. She would sneek into his dwelling. . .somehow.
One night Lily stayed wide awake. When it came to midnight she fled out from her dwelling and sneaked into Asher's, which wasn't far away. This was daring and dangerous, but it was a risk she would take. The girl somehow found a way to get in the dwelling from the back and crept her way upstairs quietly. The children in the family unit were told sleep upstairs, and the parents downstairs. It was the society's laws.
Lily walked into a bedroom on the left. It was the wrong room. Asher's little sister, Sophia, who was a Four, was snoring loudly with her Comfort Object (which Lily reconized as a stuffed Turtle) in her small chubby hands.
Lily felt stupid and backed out of the room. She had forgotten that the older sibiling slept in the right-hand room. Ever since Jonas had gone the bedroom on the right remained empty. Lily still slept in the left-hand room, because the family unit was never given a child to replace Jonas. Lily was grateful for this, because she couldn't imagine anyone replacing Jonas.
She walked into the right-hand room and saw Asher on his bed. His face was stuffed into the pillow so you couldn't really see him, but she still felt her heart skip. Lily saw the Pill bottle on his dresser and she very quietly and gently grabbed it and put it into her pocket.
But Lily just couldn't leave. Something was pulling her torward him, and she started to feel hot. She kissed Asher softly on his cheek and then rushed out of the room, now her palms feelings sweaty.
Lily couldn't leave their dwelling yet. She had to make sure every single Pill bottle was gone so Asher couldn't borrow his parent's bottles. But his parents would probably get the Stirrings.
'It doesn't matter!' Lily thought. 'Nothing will come between me and Asher!'
Lily knew it took a day to order just one bottle of Pills, so you had to order a new bottle a few days before you ran out of Pills. So Lily found three other bottles in the dwelling and she searched it an extra time to make sure she had them all. Then she left.
As Lily ran out of the dwelling she felt almost satisfied. But yet, she felt slightly guilty. Lily knew that if you took the Pills it would take the Stirrings away, and she wanted Asher to get the Stirrings. She herself had never taken the Pills, but Lily couldn't bare the thought of loving Asher no longer.
Lily hid in the shadows to avoid the moonlight that would make the chances of her being seen higher. And once she got back to her own dwelling, she hid the Pills under her pillow and fell asleep with a smile on her face.