Sleep didn’t come easily that night, but when I finally drifted off to sleep in the early hours of the morning, I was woken what felt like minutes later by the sound of loud clattering near my head and the sensation of something light and plastic landing on top of the duvet. Blinking awake, I sprung up in confusion just in time to see Hugh slam his huge stereo system, speakers and all, down on his sister’s nightstand. The one on the side of his sister’s bed that I was sleeping on. Once he had the stereo plugged into the electrical outlet behind his sister’s nightstand and powered up, Hugh
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