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Keith and his friends, like always, are sitting in the woods gossiping and smoking weed in their little spot called "planet xeno". Keith's friends are aware that Keith is in love with Chris, so they tell him about something they heard going around the school. They talked about that night when she went swimming and how everyone saw it, the huge tear down the center of her back. "She's got it! She's got the bug! Her back was all messed up! The skin on her backbome was like...breaking open..yuck!" Keith is clearly upset by what he is hearing because all he does is stand up and walk into the woods. He doesn't want to believe that Chris would do something so stupid. While he was walking through the woods he see's Chris getting undressed. I'm not sure if this is a dream, or he's imagining it, or it's just a strange coincidence. But he just stands there, while she's getting undressed and watches her. While she's putting on her pants she falls and gets a piece of glass stuck in her foot. Keith comes running out of the woods to help her, and while he is looking at the dark open wound he realizes that he's seen it before. He's mesmerized by this dark gaping wound, finally he pulls the glass out of her foot. He takes off his shirt and rips it to make a bandage for her foot. He helps her up and she thanks him for all his help, waves goodbye and smiles. "That was all I needed. When she smiled at me, all the stupid, ugly stuff just drifted away." As he waved goodbye he saw the dark stains on his fingers and it all came back. "Blood...HER blood, dark and real. I'd been marked with her blood...it was a sign. I didn't know where or when or how, but she was going to be mine. It was going to happen. It had to happen."