XIV
second chances
Hans drove me back to the Petrov trailer when my parents went off to eat in town since the apartment was in no condition for them to prepare breakfast. I begged him to not let my parents know in any sort of way that I had spent the night at his place. After all we hadn’t spent the night together but it still wasn’t anybody’s business and I knew a little too well what rumours could do. Hans had slept in his own bed and I’d slept in the spare bedroom and we were the only two who knew that. I wanted it to stay that way. In other matters, I had slept through the entire night undisturbed by dreams or by any external factors.
Hans looked worried as he drove me down to the radioactive trailer park, seemingly appalled by the environment he was scheduled to clean up. He was pr
