Paula said, ‘Because I really wanted to.’

Emily said, ‘Don’t lie to me! You dumped her, in fact, a second time! And that’s why she did the coke again! Only to finally forget about you.’

Shocked and dismayed, Paula uttered out, ‘Did she really…believe that I…’

Emily finished, ‘That you used her? Yeah. That’s what Franzi thought. And that’s why she’s in there now!’

Paula was angry before but now she was enraged and in disbelief. She was knocked out by the shear power of what Emily revealed. Gathering all her strength, Paula grabbed the door knob and threw Emily out saying, ‘What kind of shit are you telling me? Why Franzi!? Why not you!?’ After slamming the door shut on Emily, Paula started gasping for air like she couldn’t breathe. Then she collapsed on the floor crying and gripping her bed cover with stone hard hands. Paula didn’t care about Emily or her old coke-friends in the model industry. As far as Paula was concerned, neither one of them had a place in her life; only Franzi.

Emily’s mind beat her down with images of everybody yelling and lecturing her. ‘We told you to get your priorities straight and what happens? You’re going to the hospital after an overdose, leaving on your own to get high again, and now look at this! John almost got killed by your loser dealer’s buddies and now Franzi was lucky to get out of the fire on life support! AND YOU PUT HER HERE!’ Screaming voices in Emily’s head, angry family in her life, and a friend in the Intensive Care Unit. What else was there to lose?’

Falling asleep on the floor, Paula dreamed of what she said to Emily and was burdened with guilt and grief. When Paula woke up, after dreaming the whole nigh at The Fasan and seeing Franzi fall asleep in the fire, she got up from the floor and walked back to Franzi’s room.

Upon entering, Paula said, ‘I’m sorry.’ Then remembering what Emily said, Paula said, ‘I swear…I didn’t know why you were at The Fasan. Now I know.’ Paula knelt down beside Franzi and held her hand saying, ‘And I promise you….that I am going to be here for you. Forever. When you wake up, I’m going to be the first thing you see. And I won’t stop talking untill you tell me to shut up. And when we get out of here, then we will be completely free.’ Then she kissed the backside of Franzi’s hand and said, ‘Ich Liebe Dich’, followed by a kiss on the lips and Paula repeating, ‘Ich Liebe Dich, Franzi.’ She then laid her head down beside Franzi, still holding her hand looking for a single motion.