What’s crazier: that that just happened…?
Or that I want more?
NYU LANGONE DENTAL — EMERGENCY INTAKE
Date: 13 December 2025 | 02:41 AM
Chief Complaint: Avulsed molar (#19, lower left first molar)
Mechanism of Injury: “Tripped and fell." When asked to elaborate on mechanism, patient became nonverbal.
The car pulls away and I don’t look back. I can’t.
If I look back, I’ll see Rae standing there on that sidewalk with her ruined makeup and her swollen lips, her eyes full of questions I have no intention of answering. If I look back, I might do something catastrophically stupid.
Like get out of the car and go to her.
I press the heel of my palm against my chest, trying to ease the pressure building there. It doesn’t help.
This is why I had to do it this way. I shoved her to her knees
