Summary

In Chapter 17 the reader learns that during the summer before the shooting, Maja worked in a downtown hotel on the night shift to gain work experience before graduation. Sebastian unexpectedly shows up one night and asks to use the bathroom, which she lets him use despite hotel policy. Sebastian accompanies her home from work and falls asleep on the train with his head in her lap. Although Sebastian is a year older than Maja, he is going to be in her class at school because he has to repeat his last year of upper school.

When Maja and her family take a European vacation, Sebastian unexpectedly turns up at their hotel on the outskirts of Nice and invites the family to dine on the Fagerman yacht. Maja's parents are ecstatic at the idea of meeting Sebastian's father because he “was a great deal...