"I hope I won't cause you too much fuss. I was hoping we'd meet again some day but I was hoping it'd be when I was a bit more successful, not when my parents tried to sell me over drug debt." He wondered if his uncle knew about what the banana farm was doing ... then again, now he realised it, they probably all knew. Oh God, was this the big surprise they were going to tell him about when he graduated? Well, he was glad he hadn't graduated.

"I missed you at school, people still wrote our names together for ages afterwards. It was nice, I could always think of you." He smiled at Chenglei, more optimistic than he had to be about these things.