The scene opens with a knock at the door. It's a girl friend of the narrator's, and she's here to deliver a message to the girl's mother. The girl is shocked to see her mother's body on the doorstep, and the girl begs her mother to open the door and let her in. She tells the girl that she'll explain later, but first she wants to rub her body with some fabric softener to make it smell "kind of differ ent." The girl says that she doesn't know what's wrong with her, but she does know that it's the fabric softener that's making her skin smell different. She asks the girl if she can squeeze the fabric into her arms to make herself feel better, but the girl says she can't do that, because she'd rather be doing something else. The