Get a Life, Chloe Brown

While Chloe Brown takes a Tuesday afternoon walk, a drunk driver in a Range Rover nearly kills her. As she processes what almost happened to her, a paramedic asks her if she is okay. She says that she is in shock and asks for some tea and chocolate. Not wanting to bring further attention to her “highly temperamental body” (2) she sits in the attending ambulance and asks after the woman driving the car.

When Chloe arrives at her family’s mansion, she finds her grandmother, Gigi, waiting for her. Gigi comments on her “peaky” (3) appearance and states that she was worried when Chloe did not answer her phone. Gigi states that she assumes Chloe had a “wobble” (4) because of her chronic illness, and Chloe explains the events from before. Gigi states that she is going to call her therapist, Jeremy, to see if she can get Chloe an emergency Xanax prescription.

Chloe revisits the scene of the accident in her mind and suddenly becomes overheated and dizzy. Knowing her penchant for fainting, Chloe slowly lowers herself to the ground. Now laying on the ground, Chloe considers what her imaginary eulogy might say had she died and realizes that it would say extraordinarily little.