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“Sometimes you wake up when something
hurts. Like one time my sister pulled my hair
when I was asleep. I felt it, and it made me
wake up.”
“The medicine will keep you asleep,”
Peter said. “Don’t worry.”
“And I know the signal,” Patricia said. She
was speaking soft and low, just to me. And in
that same voice she said, “Dr. Fuentes, I think
we’re ready now.”
Dr. Fuentes put the mask on me. It
smelled like chocolate milk. But under the
chocolate milk smell, there was something
else, too. Something that smelled like
rotten eggs. I felt my eyes
get hot with tears again.
“I hate this,” I said,
even though there was
a mask over my mouth
