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do anything except combining hydrogen and oxygen to make water. I guess I wouldn't mind being Lilith's caretaker as much if it didn't come with Karen following us around everywhere l

ommodation anymore. I wish sometimes that I didn't have a roommate so that I could call Patrick and have really honest conversations with him. That night after Lilith 'accidentally' hits me with her cane and 'accidentally' trips me because I tried to help her shell the peanuts I receive a call from my mother. "I have bad news," she tells me in Thai. "Hi to you too, mother," I respond to her in Thai. "I've settled in quite well thank you," "The little boy died this morning," she tells me. I freeze and get out of the blankets. Munya looks up from the opposite end of the bed. "Is everything alright?" He asks. "I have to take this call outside," I tell him. "I thought that you would have a private room once Patrick had left," my mom says in English. Probably hoping that whoever is there with me hears. "Mom, the boy died," I hiss to her in Thai. "I don't even remember what happened and whether I did it or not. Mom, you have to believe me," I hear my mom sigh as I begin to panic. I have a sudden urge to throw up and begin to hurl in the nearby bushes. "Get yourself together Max," my mother tells me. "There's nothing that has come out in the papers yet and the police have been sworn to silence while investigations are going on," "People will think I'm like the Red Bull heir because I left the country," I hiss to her in Thai. I feel tears sting my eyes. When I had been in the hospital soon after the incident I had snuck out of my room one night to see the little boy. He had been in his hospital bed with bandages covering his entire body and on life support. I had sat at his bedside for two hours and realized that he wasn't being given the same care that I was. Even though I was nowhere near the bad shape that he was in, nurses came into my roo