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catch up on my homework, too, I promise. I just need to sleep for a while. Cleo. Jacqueline
    Hi Abbie,
    It’s ten o’clock and you are not here so I’m writing you a note cause something bad happened. I’m worried about that skinny girl who says her name is not Cleopatra, even though the sign on her door says it is. When I got here I went in to say “hi,” but she looked pretty sad. I remember how sad I was when my kidney stopped working and I had an operation. So I tried to cheer the girl up but it didn’t work. She yelled that her name was Jacklin and not Cleopatra and said I was an idiot. Then she threw her math book at me. It hit the TV and knocked it off the stand. The TV broke on the floor and Nurse Taki came in and yelled. And the girl just curled up in her bed and looked worse than ever. I said sorry to her and sorry to Nurse Taki but I think they are both mad at me now. I wish my mom was here. She would fix everything.
    November 13
    Logan K.
    Too early.
    Hey Abster,
    Sorry about your office wall. I was feeling pretty mad and crazy and down, and that new kid was driving me nuts. It was kick the wall or the kid. So the wall got it. Crappy walls around here, Abbie. Didn’t hurt my foot and I wasn’t even wearing my Doc Martens.
    Nurse Takehiko was pretty pissed with me. Apparently the little weirdie smashed a TV set today, too, so looks like parental-payout time around here. These destructive teenagers, eh? And I never knew what hospital cutbacks were before today. No wonder this place always looks so dingy. Anyway, I helped Ramone (the janitor dude) repair the damage. He wasn’t so happy with me, I have to say, but at least we got the work done. But he said his union would kill him if they saw some kid passing him his tools or whatever, so we can’t tell anyone, okay?
    And, in case you don’t believe me, I am sorry.
    I still don’t get the little weirdie, though. No wonder she’s breaking TV sets — she must be really crazy. What kind of idiot starves herself into the hospital? And into heart failure? I hear it wasn’t a real heart attack, actually. Takehiko said she just went into fibrillation or something like that. Not enough potassium or something.
    So how stupid are the staff around here? I guess you people don’t have enough to do or something. It’s an easy cure: stuff the chick with some decent food (I recommend pizza) and send her home. Problem solved.
    Logan
    To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
    Hey Ms. Zephyr.
    I hope I have the right person here. My name is Tom Juwell. I can’t seem to get ahold of a buddy of mine. His name is Logan Kemp. Coach told us he’s in the hospital, but since I am not in his family they won’t give me any information. I got your e-mail from the hospital website. Hey, can you just tell him to call me or something? The guys on the team all heard he was sick so we sent him a card. But I’d like to hear how he’s doing so I was hoping you could get him to call me. Or e-mail would be good, too.
    Thanks.
Evergreen Hospital
Children’s Ward – Desk 9
Office: 101-45l6-7890
November 14
To: Ms. Abigail Zephyr
Evergreen Hospital Education
Department Head
Re: Call from Angela Kemp (Logan Kemp’s mother), 1:40 a.m.
Message: Sorry to call so late. Stuck @ Black & White Ball until wee hours this evening. Just found Logan’s school binder under his bed. Will send to hosp. tomorrow a.m. by messenger. My apologies — thought he had it with him. No need to call back.
Message taken by:
T. Ken, RN.
    November 14
    Logan K.
    Before lunch and too early to be working
    Hey, Abbie, I don’t have to use my school binder in here, do I? It has all kinds of other stuff from the beginning of the year and we’re not doing any of the same things now, anyway. I hate looking at it. It reminds me of when I wasn’t sick. Pretty