The Nest

Mr. Nobody

her baby brother

Steve

her mother

wasps

butterflies

flies

angels

a pill

a hoodie

a flyswatter

an EPI-pen

he was scared and weird and anxious and sad lots of the time

he was taking pills and learning tricks to be like other people

he had been diagnosed with MS and would be needing care

he had a problem with his kidneys and would need a transplant

he was stung by a white and silver wasp

his chair fell over and he broke a leg

he took a nose dive off a cliff

he fell out of a tree and broke his arm

angels

dragonflies

butterflies

aliens

how to make lemonade for Nicole himself

how to build a tree house with the scrap wood in the back yard

how insects absorbed the juices of other insects, such as spiders

how wasps were making a nest from the wood around the house

they will raise him as a wasp

they will eat him

they will send him back to Mars

they will take him to the trash dump

that she had gassed it to death

that it was a new kind of wasp in the area

that it was an ordinary wasp

that there was nothing they could find out about it

it was born with heart, brain and eye problems

it had a serious virus for which there was no cure

the doctors said it would take a lot of money to cure it

it had pneumonia and had to stay in the hospital