~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Suzy's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Running down the stairs, I hear mild conversation from the living room. I was too busy to pay any attention to idle conversation that I wasn't part of. Trying not to attract any attention too myself I raced in the kitchen, stood for a second while trying to think where the first aid kit was, remembered where it was and retrieved it from the cupboard.

Just in case anyone was to walk out the living room as I walked past with the first aid kit, I stuck it by my side so you'd have to lean around to be able to see it. I made it to the stairs without anybody passing me, and climbing the stairs was the easiest thing to do.

Arin called, "C'mon, Suzy she's loosing blood!" trying to make sure Mark didn't hear him. Racing in to the master bedroom, the purple towel I'd given to Mark's girlfriend was pretty much half red. I would have expected the women to have fainted by now but she was still going strong she wasn't even crying, no. I sat her up, shoved plastic gloves on my hands, took out her pigtails and got Arin to hold the top half of her hair of her hair. I separated the hair in to two parts, the first dropped and looked like wildly over grown bangs and the second thicker part was still being held above her head.

I got a cotton pad from the first aid kit and put it on the wound. I got Arin to hold it while I wrapped a length of bandage around the part of hair being held in the air. I got my brush and brushed through the redhead's hair. After, Arin was allowed to drop it so that it covered the wound perfectly. The front of the bandage was still clear to everyone in the room, so I took the part of hair that made the women look like Cousin It and put it above the easily seen bandage at the front.

I grabbed one of her hair bobbles calmly and plaited her hair at the end.

"You're ok now." I said.

"Thanks… Please don't tell him… that I fucked my head up. He'll be all like- 'Oh, Aletta, why'd yo have to go and do that.'" Aletta did an impression of her boyfriend that was actually quite funny. We both laughed.

"Arin, get my mirror for our friend." I called to my husband.

"Sure, thing." He said while doing what he was told.

She looked in to the mirror and smiled. Aletta turned to me and gave me a hug.

"Thank you guys, I am really sorry for the inconvenience this morning." Aletta unnecessarily apologized.

"No- no," Arin said. "No apology is needed from you… I really should have knocked first."

"Let's get down stairs then," I said and then I noticed her arms. "U-um, did you do that…?"

"Kids," she said. "They're stressful to have, guys make sure to live your lives before them." Instantaneously I nodded and Arin eventually knew what it meant. Together, after the conversation, we left the room.

At the bottom of the stairs, our cats, Mimi and Mochi sat loudly purring waiting for us. When we reached the bottom, Aletta lightly petted them and smiled.

"Hiya, little guys," She said. "You guys are so fuckin' cute and floofy!" She realized that we were waiting for her to continue on walking so she said, she'd see them later and continued.

"They're so cute." She complimented as we headed on to the living room.

"Hiya, sweetie," Aletta greeted Mark with a happy face and ran over. She hugged him. Her white vest top had blood on it.

"Aletta, are you alright?" He said.

"Yeah, yeah are you?" She tried to avoid that conversation.

"Why is there blood on your top?" Mark didn't let her avoid it.

"It's not blood sweet heart." She convinced. "It's just hair dye… from ages ago…"

"If it's from ages ago, why is it still wet? Mark was not stupid.

Aletta sighed and looked him in the eyes. "Darling," She said. "I'm sorry. I- I lied to you, I just don't want you to worry about me."

Mark looked at her, disappointment in his eyes. "It's my job to worry, ok? I don't like it when you lie to me." By now the girl was on her boyfriend's lap, undoing the plait in her hair.

He gasped as she revealed the bandage on her head.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Mark's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Not too soon after it was all fun and games, I was proud of her for telling me the real truth instead of it sitting ready to be told.

She greeted the Grumps then played Monopoly with us, we usually play Pictionary but since I came to their house often, lately we got bored. Later in the day, Holly came in, looking for Ross. Aletta greeted her and asked her to join us. Happily, Ross' wife put her stuff down to the side and kneeled on the floor to play.

It was evening and Aletta had fell asleep on their couch. I guessed it was time to return to our apartment. I said good bye for the pair of us, got our stuff, and left.

Still a better story than Twilight.