The Lost Code
“NOT ALL AFTERNOON, NOT AFTER dinner. By the time we got to bed that night, I was rubbing my knuckles against the bandages nonstop. I’d thought about trying to ditch dinner again, thinking maybe the shower would help, but I was still constantly hungry from having thrown up and missed eating the day before. I saw Lilly from a distance in the dining hall, but there was no chance to talk to her.
While my cabin spent the night playing games and tormenting each other, I was just lying in my bunk, bur...ning up. Todd read more to us, and everyone eventually fell asleep, except me. Hours passed, and I kept thinking, Come on, but I was stuck awake, neck scalding.
I don’t know what time it was when I finally sat up. I gazed around at the sleeping faces in the cabin. Everyone looked younger, their brows round instead of sharp, their closed eyes making straight lines. Leech’s mouth made a little o as he snored. From the other room, I could hear Todd sawing away. There was a chorus of breathing, ins and outs, a peaceful, musical sound compared to the steady whir of the air compressor in my dad’s nebulizer.MoreLess
While my cabin spent the night playing games and tormenting each other, I was just lying in my bunk, bur...ning up. Todd read more to us, and everyone eventually fell asleep, except me. Hours passed, and I kept thinking, Come on, but I was stuck awake, neck scalding.
I don’t know what time it was when I finally sat up. I gazed around at the sleeping faces in the cabin. Everyone looked younger, their brows round instead of sharp, their closed eyes making straight lines. Leech’s mouth made a little o as he snored. From the other room, I could hear Todd sawing away. There was a chorus of breathing, ins and outs, a peaceful, musical sound compared to the steady whir of the air compressor in my dad’s nebulizer.MoreLess
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