CHAPTER 15: Rights and power

  I remember the day Lionel overdosed. I came with Zion to visit, just like we had initially made plans for only to find him unconscious on the floor with a needle plunged into his arm.

  I called the emergency line immediately to come over to the house. I didn't let Zion in, and neither did I let him see Lionel when the medic came to take him away because I feared that would leave a bad mark on him.

  We were, fortunately, able to stabilise him and the doctors told him he had injected more dose of heroine than his system could carry. I told them he was clean, but they told me he might have stumbled back into abusing and felt too ashamed to tell me. The doctor told me if I had gotten to him later than the time I had, he wouldn't have made it.