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If the bathrooms are the oldest part of the house, the president’s room is the newest. But it’s new in the way the bathrooms are old. My grandparents built this house before the neighbourhood was a neighbourhood. Now there are barely any empty spaces left and the houses are crowded together side by side. But I don’t want to think about that. About the houses stuck to one another. When my grandparents were building the house, the president’s room came before the bathrooms, which is obvious, because how could they have built the bathrooms first if there was nothing below them?

Our bathroom, the bathroom I share with my brothers, is directly over the president’s room. When we pull the flush, can he hear it below us? Can he hear the noise of the shower or the silence when we’re masturbating? So as not to think about it, not to think about the president when I’m in the bathroom, I try to count the tiles. But there are just too many.