It was half past three in the morning, and Joe was getting bored of Rapunzel's Escape. He had played it at least a hundred times since the departure of Ms. Harris at midnight, each time aiming for the highest score he could achieve. He had gotten the same score each time. It was the highest score anyone could achieve. To date, he had played through the entire game a thousand and three hundred odd times. He knew it inside out.

How lucky for him that it was just as he was growing bored with the game that he received a new e-mail notification. Joe switched windows to his mail client and saw that it was from his girlfriend. He realized upon seeing the message that it had been almost a full eight hours since he had asked her if something was up.

Before reading the new e-mail, Joe took a moment to laugh again at the memory of her previous message, the one he had posted on the Meow Meow Anim forums.

Once settled down, he solemnly read her e-mail:

"Love,

I'm going to obey the dog. This is all too weird for me to understand, but I think he's giving me a shot at fixing what I feel is wrong in this world. I know that... that what I feel is wrong and what you feel is wrong are different. And I know, from our first and final failed attempt at talking politics, that you disagree with me on the count of the Establishment... but... I have to do what I think is right.

I love you."

As soon as he finished reading her e-mail, he began laughing uproariously once more. Was there no end to the girl's insanity? First the dog was talking to her and she was resisting its offers, and now she was going to obey its commands? Moreover, she was speaking as though they were never going to talk again!

<i>Well, we might not,</i> reasoned Joe. <i>If she doesn't quit the crazy shit, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to hold on.</i>

Like the first one, Joe did not reply to his girlfriend's second e-mail. Unlike the first one, he did not post the second on the Meow Meow Anim forums. After three unpleasant run-ins with his boss, after two e-mails from an unusually deranged-sounding girlfriend, after one hundred runs through Rapunzel's Escape, he was simply too drained to put up with more flak from the low-intelligence, un-funny, mostly atheist gang that called themselves Meow's loyal fans.