”“Oh, remember that plague of boils?”Cyrilo shuddered. “Ugh, don’t remind me. Everyone was walking around, oozing puss and looking like rott...ng meat.”“Well, it looks like I might not be able to enter the academy after all, but after hearing you two talk, maybe it’s a good idea for me not to stick around.” Noah looked over to the empty stage. “I was hoping to hear Daniel play tonight.”“Last I checked on him, he was sleeping like the dead,” said Cyrilo.“Too bad. I think everyone here could use. " No. No pain. No discomfort." Oh good. I was able to get the sizing right from your measurements." Shelooked at me and smiled. I looked back still in a daze. What the helljust happened I wondered? She then took out a small plastic tag that hadnumbers on it and appeared to write the numbers in her notebook. She theninserted the tag's built in zip-lock and zipped it tightly in place.------If I had dreaded the last appointment, I dreaded this next one even more.Once again I had failed. I just hoped no one wouldnotice or even care. It took some time to get myself ready. It was time for class as Igrabbed my books, put on a loose coat for more concealment and headedoff to class. Well it didn't take much time before I was asked by oneof my friends and then two girls in class about my eyebrows. I toldthem about spilling the booze and burning most of the eyebrows off.The all laughed and believed the story. Nothing more was even said.The same process occurred the next four days. I. All they knew was they were working on him in the emergency room. He packed up his work to take home, told his secretary that his brother was suddenly taken to the hospital, and that he would be gone for the day. He had a bad feeling, a premonition that this was it, that this was the big one. He removed the thoughts of his brother’s impending funeral from his mind. He could not go there. Freddie expected the worst. His brother, albeit a twin was always the sickly one. Born premature at less.