Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of sexual content, physical abuse, illness, and death.

Scarlett meets Lukas’s roommate Hasan. The friends joke about Lukas’s obsession with tidiness (The apartment is pristine for a college man’s home). Lukas and Scarlett excuse themselves to Lukas’s room. Scarlett thinks they’re going to work on their project, but Lukas immediately pushes her onto the bed. They make sure they both feel safe before engaging in sexual foreplay and oral sex. Lukas wants to have unprotected sex, but he’s been too busy to get Scarlett his test results in the past few weeks. (They promised each other they’d get tested and exchange results before having penetrative sex; Scarlett has an IUD and is open to the idea). However, they do share a pleasurable exchange and lie together afterward. Scarlett falls asleep feeling satisfied and happy.

Scarlett wakes up next to a sleeping Lukas. She sneaks out and walks home across the deserted campus. She texts Lukas when she gets in to let him know she went home.

Scarlett notices bruises on her body over the following days. She likes how they look, remembering the encounter she shared with Lukas. On Monday, she meets with