Ramona opened her eyes and was met with mostly darkness. She blinked a few times and rubbed her eyes before looking at the clock. She had only been asleep for an hour and yet something had her wide awake. Soon enough, she heard it weeping.

Exhausted cries came from within her belly as Knives had been unable to sleep for very long without constantly waking up to deal with her sorrow. She had lost; once again she had fought for Scott and wound up being the loser, and for the ultimate humiliation, Ramona ate her and she got to be right in the middle of them having sex. She felt like she just wanted to be melted away by the gastric acids.

Ramona spoke not a word, but felt like a complete bitch. Without her hormones clouding her judgment, she realized that she had hurt a sweet girl who apparently still had feelings for Scott. Still being attached to an ex boyfriend was something Ramona knew all about, and that made her feel even worse. She didn’t want this to be the way things ended with her and Knives, but she doubted anything she said would get through to her. Still, it was worth a try.

Quietly grunting, Ramona slowly managed to raise herself up and then slid her legs off the bed. When she rose up, the bed creaked and she feared Scott would wake up. This was something she had to handle alone for now, since she had been unknowingly making Knives miserable even before she met Scott. Looking back, Ramona saw that he was out like a light, and so she tip toed her way to the bathroom. Knives hadn’t made her way into the intestines yet, and feeling her organic cell jiggle with movement made her wipe her eyes as she wondered what was going on. Soon, Ramona closed the door behind and leaned up against the sink while gently placing one hand on her belly.

“Knives, can you hear me?” she stroked her tummy as she spoke, but the girl inside was just repulsed when she felt her through the flesh. She became a little more mad than sad and just asked her “What do you want?”

“I just…*sigh* I just wanted to apologize.” Ramona spoke honestly. Hearing that made rage burn within Knives’ heart and she let her captor have it “APOLOGIZE?!!!! SAVE IT RAMONA!! DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT TOOK FOR SCOTT TO FINALLY MAN UP AND SAY HE WAS SORRY FOR CHEATING ON ME WITH YOU?!!! I’M NOT ABOUT TO BELIEVE A BITCH LIKE YOU IS ANY BETTER!!!” Knives rant quickly led to tears as the sadness returned full force without the anger there to overpower it. Ramona feared the yelling would reach Scott, but still she didn’t hear him waking up. Even though the girl’s words rang true, still she tried to reach out to her.

“Knives please,” but all she got in response “No, no I’m not listening to you. Just digest me and get it over with.” However, Knives was pleasantly surprised when Ramona told her “Actually, I can’t do that. The Big Gulp is a way to let two people bond, not to kill anyone.” The crying stopped because even Knives had to admit, death did not sound inviting.

“It’s not?...Great, that means I stuck here inside you.” She crossed her arms under her bare chest and slumped back, planning to just wait out when ever and however she got out of here. Of course, this extra time together gave Ramona more of a chance to say she was sorry.

“Knives, I know you hate me right now, and honestly, you should. You are a really sweet girl and you did not deserve any of the crap you’ve been through. Honestly, if I was in your place, I would have attacked you in the library to, but you have to understand, Scott didn’t mean for you to get hurt. You know as well as I do that he’s a good guy. It’s just hard to say goodbye to someone, speaking from experience here, especially if that someone cares about you a lot.” Ramona said. All the while, Knives didn’t say a word, but by the end, her anger had lessened just enough to get a grumble out of her.

“We would have been just fine if you hadn’t shown up.” She said, and much to her surprise, Ramona agreed “Yeah, you probably would have. Knives, in all the time I’ve known you, you have always been a great person who only strikes out when someone hurts you, never to hurt someone else just to be a jerk. I feel so lucky that you called me your friend and I’ll spend the rest of my life apologizing for tonight if that’s what it takes not to lose you.”

It really hard for Ramona to register how her friend was through her belly. It remained still and quiet for a while as Knives was thinking long and hard about everything she had felt and gone through this past year. While she tried to get her thoughts together though, the key question was asked “Knives, what did you tell Scott when he tried to get back together with you that one time?”

She lightly gasped when that was brought up, but she then calmed down to answer the question “I told him that I needed some time to focus on me.” Naturally, Ramona asked “And what did you find out?” It was kind of a tough question given how the time she spent on herself was so much shorter than the time she spent on Scott, but the answer was “I…I realized…I still love Scott.”

Ramona’s suspicions were confirmed and right then and there, she decided what she was going to do. It was still a long shot, but Knives’ confession made things so much easier “I knew it. Knives, if you can forgive me for eating you and putting you in the middle of me and Scott in bed for just a few minutes, I think I’ve got a solution the three of us will love.”

Knives actually did listen intently once she said “Three.” That meant her to. It was time to see if little Ms. Punk Chick actually did have a heart.