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doing it with his right hand.
     
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    “Thanks again for gathering all of his missed assignments, Mrs. Walker. I really do appreciate it,” Kelly said as she leafed through the hefty stacks of paper.
    “Oh Mrs. Winters, it is my pleasure to help in any way, and all of Cody’s teachers feel the same. He is a great student, and I feel terrible that he has fallen ill again. Do you know when he will be returning to us?” Mrs. Walker asked, looking genuinely concerned.
    “I’m unsure, but I do know he will be out the remainder of this week and at least a part of the next. They are running a few more tests on him tomorrow, and then I will be meeting with his doctors on Monday.”
    “I see. My prayers are with you. Please keep me posted.”
    “Thank you and I will,” Kelly said, before walking off in deep thought.
    For the past three days, Cody had been kept out of school due to his rapidly deteriorating condition. Not only was he still switching personas every morning and night, he was now collapsing and having seizures without a moment’s notice. So far, all of the medical tests had come back negative, but no one could deny that something was seriously wrong. His physicians were convinced that the seizures and lapses in consciousness were due to sleep deprivation, but no one could explain his personality shifts, which were causing the sleep deprivation in the first place.
    ‘They’re all a bunch of fucking idiots,’ Kelly thought as she drove from the visitor’s parking lot to the main entrance. Never before had she felt more helpless than she did then. Though she was doing everything in her power to make everything right, she felt like even more of her boy was slipping through her fingers each second.
    ‘I won’t let this beat us. I will fix this.’
    Right at that moment, the person she had been waiting for emerged from the building. She had decided days ago that while the doctors were sitting around scratching their heads and talking in circles, she was going to question the person that first recognized the changes in her son.
    “Sean, over here!” Kelly yelled as she stepped out of her car so that the boy could see her. Quickly, he walked over, looking slightly confused.
    “Hey Mrs. Win, what are you doing here? I thought my mom was picking me up,” he said, making no moves to get into the car.
    “I told her not to bother considering I was already here. Besides, part of the deal for you to attend school out here is me driving you home,” Kelly said.
    A shrug later and Sean climbed into the passenger seat. After a few minutes of silence, especially with only the two of them riding in the car, he felt a bit strange.
    “How is Cody?” he asked quietly.
    “He’s alive.”
    With that statement, the silence intensified, making Kelly let out a loud sigh.
    “Actually, that’s the main reason I volunteered to drive you home. I wanted to talk to you about something you mentioned a few months ago. You said that the Cody we’re seeing wasn’t really Cody. What did you mean by that? Did he say or do something strange or out the ordinary that day?” she asked, and Sean averted his gaze, not responding even after several moments. Kelly tried to be patient, but patience was never her strong suit.
    “Sean, please tell me. If Cody did or said anything unusual, no matter how small or insignificant, I need to know,” she added, tightly gripping the steering wheel. Sean then blew out a long breath, finally turning to address her.
    “The last time I was over, it was about a week before classes started. He was saying something about not being happy with the classes he had selected before the accident, so he was planning to switch out his athletics classes for orchestra. I thought the whole thing was strange, but it wasn’t really surprising considering how much he had changed, so I just ignored him. Then out of nowhere he fell to his knees and started clutching his head as though he was in pain, so I ran over