Summary

In Chapter 4, Maya returns home on the bus. The bus driver lets her use his cell phone and Alex and Eugene tell her off. Finally, Raisa gets on the phone and tells her that Max returned just after the bus left with Maya on it, but no one could reach Maya because she left her cell phone in the house. She and Raisa exchange insults and then Raisa tells her that someone found Max facedown in the river, but he is okay. Eugene comes to pick her up.

Raisa puts Max to bed, but will not allow him to sleep on the floor. The adults continue to fight about him. They tell Maya, when she arrives home, that he told them that he was counting pebbles. When she asks Max why he took the bus, he says that he was sad and...