The last time I wiped out like that, I was a kid. Back then, no one made a fuss over me the way they were doing now.Valeriya brought tea and a couple of sandwiches to my room, and before long we were chatting like it was the most natural thing in the world. She was so warm, so genuinely kind, that I stopped thinking about everything else and just… let myself relax.At some point, I found myself laughing—really laughing—at her story about her grandson trying to sneak out of the yard and getting stuck halfway through a hole in the fence.Honestly, we weren’t that different.Same bad idea. Same embarrassing result.The door flew open right as Valeriya was trying to calm me down from another laughing fit."I almost didn’t believe it was you laughing like that, Zoe," my sister said, peeking inside.The housekeeper quickly gathered the empty dishes onto a tray and slipped out, leaving us alone. Valeri glanced at my scraped knees, smiled, and sat down on the bed."Save me, Zoe, or I swear I
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