Microsoft Word - 5 by Administrator

Author:Administrator
Language: eng
Format: epub

Monday, May 5, Nurse's Office

Oh, my God, that was so dramatic, I can barely

write. Seriously. I have never seen so much

blood.

I am almost surely destined for some kind of

career in the medical sciences, however,

because I didn't feel like fainting. Not even

once. In fact, except for Michael and maybe

Lars, I think I am the only person in the room to

have kept my head. This is undoubtedly due to

the fact that, being a writer, I am a natural

observer of all human interactions, and I saw

what was coming before anyone . . . maybe even

Boris. The nurse even said that if it hadn't been

for my quick intervention, Boris might have lost

a lot more blood. Ha! How's that for princess-

like behaviour, Grandmere? I saved a guy's life!

Well, OK, maybe not his life, but whatever,

Boris might have passed out or something if it

hadn't been for me. I can't even imagine what

caused him to freak out like that. Well, yes, I

guess I can. I think the silence in the G and T

room caused Boris

to go momentarily mental. Seriously. I can

totally see how it would, since it was bugging

me, as well.

Anyway, what happened was, we were all just

sitting there, minding our own business - well,

except for me, of course, since I was watching

Boris - when all of a sudden he stood up and

went, 'Lilly, I can't take this any more! You

can't do this to me! You've got to give me a

chance to prove my undying devotion!'

Or at least it was something like that. It's kind of hard to remember, given what happened next.

I do remember how Lilly replied, however. She

was actually somewhat kind. You could tell she

felt a little bit bad about her behaviour towards

Boris at my party. She went, in a nice voice,

'Boris, seriously, I am so sorry, especially about

the way it happened. But the truth is, when a

love like mine for Jangbu takes hold, there's no

stopping it. You can't hold back New York

baseball fans when the Yankees win the World

Series. You can't hold back New York shoppers

when Century Twenty-One has a sale. You can't

hold back the floodwaters in the F train subway

tunnels when it pours. Similarly, you can't hold

back love like the kind I feel for Jangbu. I am

so, so sorry about it, but seriously, there's

nothing I can do. I love him.'

These words, gently as they were spoken - and

even I, Lilly's severest critic, with the possible

exception of her brother, will admit they were

spoken gently - seemed to hit Boris like a fist.

He shuddered all over. Next thing I knew, he'd

picked up the giant globe next to him - which

really was a feat of some athleticism, as that

globe weighs a ton. In fact, the reason it's in the

G and T room is that it's so heavy, nobody can

get it to spin any more, so the administration,

rather than throwing it away, must have figured,

well, just stick it in the classroom with the

nerds, they'll take anything ... after all, they're

nerds.

So there was Boris - hypoglycaemic, asthmatic,

deviated-septum and allergy-prone Boris -

holding this big heavy globe over his head, as if

he were Adas or He-Man or the Rock or

somebody.

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