The cocktail of drugs numbing my senses is the only thing stopping me from losing my s**t. Questions race through my head like wildfire. What the hell's been happening in my life? Is everyone alive? Any catastrophes I should know about? What if my resentment toward Taylor turned me into some nutjob, and I went all The Shining on her? There's a whole year's worth of changes to process. A year's worth of front-page news, a year's worth of life's merry-go-round, a year's worth of heartaches and headaches and goodbyes. Changes that I'm sure I dealt with in real time but now they'll all hit me simultaneously head-on. I can't go there yet. Katie leans over my bed. "Are you all right?" It's then that I realize the loud wailing noise is coming from me. "Er… yeah, sorry," I say, trying to

