The Short History of a Prince
“It seemed so to Susan, seemed that they had abandoned him, that they couldn’t claim to be sincere and faithful if they didn’t call him at night or stop by several times a week. Daniel’s friends—the Overachievers, Walter called them—were athletes, musicians and National Merit finalists. They were busy at their senior year, at the business of football, swimming, school government, homework, the orchestra, the student newspaper and college applications. Some of them who had visited infrequently in... October and November had been given a talking-to by their parents in January, and had come to understand the gravity of his situation. Chris Nelson played basketball that winter, and he often wrote Daniel from a few blocks away, giving him blow-by-blow accounts of the games. Maura Peterson copied her European History notes and delivered them at the end of each week, and David Horton came over on Saturdays, at first to catch Daniel up in calculus, and later, when they let the math go, he came to play chess.Susan felt as if Daniel were in a tank, and the old friends were looking in on him, their faces pressed against the glass, their noses squashed, their lips flattened and enlarged.MoreLess
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