So cool." If I'd been just one of me, I would've done that too.News of the incident must've spread around school like wildfire because I was getting c...ongratulations from all over the place. Many from people I didn't know. It was safe to assume they knew Annette because there are no blind students at our school, but what puzzled me was that they knew who I was, as indicated by their knowing which back to slap. Apparently Egg - a name I heard dozens of times that morning, as in "Way to go Egg!" -. He had tried to use perfumed soaps to rid off the odour but it always returned. It was the curse, all right. And he was to be blamed for it. ‘Sit up.’ Jamila ordered. John sat up and let her put the scented mixture on his skin. He tried not to shiver, but it was hard. Her hands were so soft and delicate that they humbled him. He knew what she thought about him-stupid and too kind-but he loved her and he didn’t care. Come next winter, he knew that the curse would be lifted, and she would love. His mother was unwell, his father on nightshift, his sister, offended. She possibly even hated him. Tony, his closest friend, had not managed to get out of bed.So, nobody was there to farewell him. And Ben was not just leaving home to work in Salzburg or Vienna as other young locals did. He was leaving for Australia, the other side of the world. True, Ben had assured his mother - believing that it might be true – that he would return after a two-year working holiday.Now, twenty-one years later,. "When that didn't seem to do the trick she started insinuating that Helen wasn't on the up and up with me."I know she is seeing other guys baby. Just last night while you were at work she left with one."I'd been there before with mom. I was her baby and she apparently didn't want to lose me to someone else. Helen wasn't the first girl that mom had tried to break me away from. This time however I was in a committed relationship and I wasn't going to give up on it just because my mother was being.