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.At last it ended – more from fatigue than any recovery of control, Renie noted with disgust.!Xabbu released her hands.She could not look at him yet, so she reached into her coat pocketand found a crumpled piece of tissue she had used earlier to blot her lipstick, then did her best todry her face and wipe her nose.When she did meet her friend’s eyes, it was with a kind ofdefiance, as though daring him to take advantage of her weakness.“Is the sadness less painful now?”She turned away again.He seemed to think it was perfectly natural to make an idiot of yourselfout in front of the Durban Outskirt Medical Facility.Maybe it was.The shame had alreadydiminished, and was now only a faint reproving voice at the back of her mind.“I’m better,” she said.“I think we missed our bus.”!Xabbu shrugged.Renie leaned over and took his hand in hers and squeezed it, just for amoment.“Thank you for being patient with me.” His calm brown eyes made her nervous.Whatwas she supposed to do, be proud of herself for breaking down? “One thing.One thing in thatsong.”“Yes?” He was watching her carefully.She couldn’t understand why, but she couldn’t take thescrutiny.Not now, not with swollen eyelids and a running nose.She looked down at her ownhands, now safely back in her lap.“Where it said, ‘There were people, some people, who broke the string for me’.Well, there arepeople – there must be.”!Xabbu blinked.“I do not understand.”“Stephen isn’t just.sick.I don’t believe that any more.In fact, I never really believed it,although I could never make sense out of the feeling.Someone – some people, like in the song –did this to him.I don’t know who, or how, or why, but I know it.” Her laugh was strained.“Iguess that’s what all the crazy people say.‘I can’t explain it, I just know it’s true.’ ”“You think this because of the research? Because of what we saw in the library?”She nodded, straightening up.She felt strength coming back.Action – that was what wasneeded.Crying was useless.Things had to be done.“That’s right.I don’t know what it means,but it has something to do with the net.”“But you said the net is not a real place – that what happens there is not real.If someone eatsthere, it does not nourish them.How could something on the net cause an injury, send a youngchild into a sleep from which he will not wake?”“I don’t know.But I’m going to find out.” Renie suddenly smiled at how the most critical timesin your life always threw you back onto clichés.That was the kind of thing people said indetective stories – it had probably been said at least once in the book she was reading to Stephen.She stood.“I don’t want to wait for another bus and I’m sick of this bench.Let’s go getsomething to eat – if you don’t mind, I mean.You’ve wasted a whole day on me and myproblems already.What about your work for class?”!Xabbu showed her his sly grin.“I work very hard, Ms.Sulaweyo.I have already completed thisweek’s assignments.”“Then come with me.I need food and coffee – especially coffee.I’ll leave my father to fend forhimself.It will do him good.”As she set off down the sidewalk, she felt lighter than she had for weeks, as though she hadthrown off a soaking garment.“There must be something we can learn,” she said.“All problems have solutions.You just haveto work at them.”!Xabbu did not reply to this, but sped his pace to keep up with her longer strides.The grayafternoon warmed as points of glowing orange bloomed all around them.The streetlights werebeginning to come on.“Hello, Mutsie.May we come in please?”Eddie’s mother stood in the doorway, looking from Renie to !Xabbu with a mixture of interestand suspicion.“What do you want?”“I want to talk to Eddie.”“What for? Did he do something?”“I just want to talk to him.” Renie was beginning to lose her temper, which would not be a goodway to start.“Come on, you know me.Don’t keep me standing at your door like a stranger.”“Sorry.Come inside.” She stepped aside to let them pass, then indicated the slightly concavesofa covered with a brightly colored throw rug.Renie nudged !Xabbu toward it.Not that therewould be anywhere else to sit – the apartment was as cluttered as the night Stephen had gottenill.Probably the same clutter,Renie thought, then chided herself for mean-spiritedness.“The boy’s taking a bath.” Mutsie didn’t offer to bring them anything, and didn’t sit downherself.The moment hung awkwardly
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