Afterwards he had to go and ask the nurses, who’d almost been hit by it, if they knew where it had gone.
Which of course made him even angrier. It was the first time since the accident that he heard Sonja laughing.
As if it was pouring out of her, without the slightest possibility of stopping it, like she was being wrestled to the ground by her own giggling.
She laughed and laughed and laughed until the vowels were rolling across the walls and floors,
as if they meant to do away with the laws of time and space.
It made Ove feel as if his chest was slowly rising out of the ruins of a collapsed house after an earthquake.
It gave his heart space to beat again. He went home and rebuilt the whole house, ripped out the old countertop and put in a new, lower one.
Even managed to find a specially made stove. Reconstructed the doorframes and fitted ramps over all the thresholds.
The day after Sonja was allowed to leave the hospital, she went back to her teacher training. In the spring she sat her examination.
There was an advertisement in the newspaper for a teaching position in a school with the worst reputation in town,
with the sort of class that no qualified teacher with all the parts of her brain correctly screwed together would voluntarily face.
It was attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder before attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder had been invented.
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