"The lads are bringing some more," he said.Sally was incapable of drinking herself and Gareth sat down and nursed her. Nick drank greedily and then ha... another major bout of coughing and spitting. He took another drink."David," he asked, "could you wash my eyes?"David sat down and took his head and neck across his legs. He held Nick's left eye open and gently poured water on it. He let go and Nick blinked carefully."A bit more," he said and David complied."Much better! Now the other one please,. I wish your sister could have gotten to know him before he died." I can't think of anything else to say as we leave the restroom.She guides me unsteadily to my bed, and tells me, "Looks like those drugs finally took effect. Get some rest, and I will wake you when dinner is ready. I am asleep before she leaves the room.* * *"Come on, brother. Wake up!"The world is falling down on my head as it spins out of control.I open my eyes, to see my 18 year old sister looking down at me, her hands. What the fuck is something like that doing on a young black man’s Facebook profile? Now, in Somali culture, the word for gay men is ‘qaniis’ and the word for gay women or lesbians is ‘qaniisad’. We have such elements within Somali society but it’s not like in the West, where girly guys and masculine females go around parading on the streets and shit. In Somalia, men who sleep with men and females who are sexually attracted to other females keep it to themselves. We are an Islamic nation, thank. They walked out.I turned to Andrea and Linda. They looked at me expectantly.“Come on,” said Linda, “the suspense is killing us.”So, I told them the story. I cried when I told them how the Teokraeus looked and how miserable the place was and it stank like a garbage tip. They wanted more details as I went along. The others filled in a lot from their own perspective. I didn’t know the other children destroyed several assault ships heading for the ice moon.“So why are you lot in such a mess if.