Summary

In the summer, Henry joined Rana and her friends Seham, Hugh and Lucy, on a road trip to Spain. Khaled and Seham, who was Palestinian, bonded over their shared cultural roots. They drove through France to Spain. At the border, a guard questioned Khaled’s documents and initially refused to let him exit France, claiming his paperwork was not in order. They managed to convince the guard to let them through and that Khaled would rectify the situation once in Spain. They crossed the border. Khaled told the others he would go to stay with his cousin in Madrid to sort out his paperwork, but this was a lie and no such cousin existed. They enjoyed their stay in Spain. Khaled kept his t-shirt on, even while swimming, because he was self-conscious of the scar across his chest caused by the surgery after he...