PART 3

They arrested Thomas out in the hospital parking lot.

He shouted that I was unstable, ungrateful, rotted through by the internet. He called me a liar so many times the word started to sound like a prayer he was hoping might save him. But Brooks had already watched the first video.

In it, Thomas stood in our living room laughing while I begged him to stop. In another, my mother said, “Hit where the clothes cover it.”