"Let us help you," Melissa told Allison. Steve handed her his black razor and she calmly began cutting herself. Blood dripped down her arm. "Let me help you." Melissa moved closer to her former friend, intending to use the black razor on her.
"Melissa, you're sick. You don't know what you're doing!" Allison yelled out.
"Hey!" a girl shouted from behind them. The three emos turned to look and saw a blond girl, who Jon knew to be Karyn, his former best friend. "You wanna change someone? Change me. Leave them alone!"
Steve and Jon backed away from the two girls. Karyn felt relieved, until she realized that they had already changed one of the girls, and the other girl was about to be cut. She waited too long to help. Because of her delay, one of the girls was doomed to live out her life as an emo girl.
"We're helping them," Jon said. "Let us help you too. We need you to understand our pain."
No way, Karyn thought. What was she going to do? If she tried to rush them, she might get cut and turn into an emo girl too, and that would do no good. But if she did nothing, then Allison would become another of Derek's victims.
