[ Or maybe she won't. Maybe she'll be happy for him. He never was able to pretend well enough to keep her from worrying about his inability to connect with other people. Maybe that'll be what she sees. That, not her son being dragged off to Egypt by a delinquent. Maybe she'll be so glad that he made it home that it won't matter. ]
Maybe a little less, now you're not smoking. It's funny, she thinks that other people can be a bad influence on me. Like I'm not the bad influence just because I'm at the top of-
[ A long pause, tinged with slight horror. ]
...I've not attended school since it began again after summer. I'll be at the bottom of the class. We missed the university admissions test.
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[ Or maybe she won't. Maybe she'll be happy for him. He never was able to pretend well enough to keep her from worrying about his inability to connect with other people. Maybe that'll be what she sees. That, not her son being dragged off to Egypt by a delinquent. Maybe she'll be so glad that he made it home that it won't matter. ]
Maybe a little less, now you're not smoking. It's funny, she thinks that other people can be a bad influence on me. Like I'm not the bad influence just because I'm at the top of-
[ A long pause, tinged with slight horror. ]
...I've not attended school since it began again after summer. I'll be at the bottom of the class. We missed the university admissions test.