REBECCA Reiner and I only truly had some peace and alone time that night: doctors had been fussing over me for the whole afternoon, checking my vitals, fixing my bandages, and doing whatever doctors did. There were also some students with them – one of them being, I found out, one of Reiner’s oldest friends: he’d been very nice to me, and also very useful, because after all the doctors had been done with me, he’d come into my room to answer all of my questions and explain, in a way that I could actually understand, all the things that had been done to me. In his words, “I’d been sliced up real good”. He’d also found great amusement in winking at Reiner before telling him he’d gotten the chance to “get inside of me” before him – something that had made my mate get up from the bed and p

