Randy got up from his squat beside the bed and walked to the kitchen. Megan continued to lie on the bed on her stomach, her face pointed at the clothing wad. In the kitchen, where he was getting a bowl of warm water and a roll of masking tape, Randy saw the knife she’d sat on. It was surrounded by watery blood. Next to the knife, floating in a tea cup, was a small crouton.

He went to the bathroom to dry heave and get gauze, Neosporin, and Tylenol.

When he got back to the bedroom, she was sobbing. He set his things on the nightstand and took a moment to look at the underwear around Megan’s ankles.

“Hey, it’s not that bad,” he said. The gash was deep, but not incredibly bloody. He rinsed and dried it, then covered it with a quarter of the tube of Neosporin.

“It really hurts,” she said.

“I know, I know,” he said. He rubbed her head for a minute. “Do you still want me to make that pizza?”

“What? No. Maybe. Maybe I’ll want that pizza later,” she said. “You decide, I don’t know.”

“Ok, I’ll decide,” he said. He wiped her nose and eyes with the extra gauze. She looked like a disgusting dead sea creature. Randy began to smile and wipe the stray hairs out of her face.

“My ass hurts so much,” she sobbed.

“I know it does, honey,” he said.

Megan remembered what she had been talking about when she slid into the sink and said, “Jillian is such a fucking idiot!”

“I know, honey,” said Randy. “She’s a total idiot.”

“No, I’m serious,” she cried. “This is serious!”

“Of course it is,” said Randy.

“I get a dangerous sense of foreboding when I’m around her.” Megan swallowed some spit. “She’s seeping into me! Everything she says and does, whenever she opens her mouth!”

Randy nodded and rubbed Megan’s ears. “I know.”

“But, I won’t let her get to me.”

“That’s good. You should really try to let this all go, it’s not good for you. You talk about her every day. I’m so happy you’re going to brush it off, that’s really mature.”

Megan omitted his statement from her mind. “I’ll turn the tables,” she said. “I’ll enjoy it. Every stupid idea she has is mine now. I’ll savor it, that’s what I’ll do.”

Randy frowned and balled up the snot gauze before tossing it onto the nightstand.