床尾，手里捧着一碗切好的苹果。她脸色很差，仿佛一晚上没睡觉。红棕色卷发乱糟糟披散下来，像变质的巧克力碎屑。
夏洛蒂注意到戴着口罩的麦蓝，露出疑惑神情，待麦蓝摘下口罩，这才恍然大悟：“Hey,Millie, you\''re here!”
床上的小女孩从被窝里坐起来，稚嫩声音像是软糯棉花糖：“Who is she, charchar.”
“My new roomate.” 夏洛蒂强撑着一股精神展开笑容，“Millie.”
“Millie?My teddy bear is also called Millie.”小女孩揉了揉怀里的泰迪熊。
麦蓝小心翼翼走进女孩，打了声招呼，“Hi.”
小女孩从被窝里伸出一只手，轻轻地挥了挥：“Hi.”只见她小小的胳膊上扎入好几个针头，针头与五颜六色的线相连，不清楚是电线还是输液管。“Hey，don’t.”夏洛蒂皱眉，拎起被子，将她的胳膊轻轻塞回去。
“Why do you look different from us?”小女孩盯着麦蓝的脸。
“Cuz I am a froeigner.”麦蓝回答，赶紧转移话题，“You can call me Millie,and…What’s your name？”
“Sophia· Zimmer.”
“OK….nice to meet you, Sophia.”麦蓝下意识伸出手，想起刚刚她满胳膊的线，于是赶紧收回去。
杰西卡一直冷静地站在旁边，等待她们对话的间隙：“Well,Sophia,could you please give me and charchar a second to talk？”杰西卡瞥了麦蓝一眼，看来是准备和夏洛蒂谈论偷东西的事情。
夏洛蒂在索菲娅的额头上留下一个吻，跟随杰西卡离开病房。
麦蓝也按照杰西卡的请求，装作不知情，留在病房里，继续和索菲娅交谈。麦蓝从小就不喜欢小孩子，和小孩子聊天无异于要她半条命。但如果什么都不说又会显得自己很没礼貌。她现在只能硬着头皮用哄小孩子的语气和索菲娅交谈：
“You are really adorable…”虽然她不擅长和小孩子说话，但这句话是发自内心的：索菲娅真的很漂亮。一头棕红色的卷发，一双灰绿色眼睛，完全是神话故事里的精灵女孩。她像个缩小版的夏洛蒂，想必她们是姐妹。
“I know I am adorable.”
“Well, errrr, ”麦蓝拼命组织语言，“Is Charlotte your sister？”
“Charlotte is my sister.”
“How old are you？”
“Five.”
“What illness do you have?”
“I don’t know.”
“Didn\''t your sister tell you?”
“Charchar didn’t tell me.”
麦蓝感觉好像没有话聊了。
“You are really pretty.”
“I know I am pretty.”
麦蓝陷入沉默，正当她思考话题时，房间外传来夏洛蒂和杰西卡的争吵：
“I\''ve already told you a hundred times, I did not steal anything from her! I …I can\''t understand a word you\''re saying! It’s so …It’s really utterly disappointing to me.! You are really… really making no sense!”