Episode 36

"Do you know how your father died?" he asked, staring endllessly at me without blinking.

I swallowed an inexplicable lump in my

hroat and looked down to the floor. "Was he trying to remind me of my father's death so that I would cry before him?" I thought.

"He died of HIV, sir," I replied incoherently

trying my best to look normal.

He beamed me a smile and archeda brow. "I mean do you know how your father really died, boy?

His pitch increased and his eyes hardened.

"What are you talking about? You remind me of my father's death, yet you smile about it like there is...