Taking Candy from a Baby

Suffocating silence stretches on.

Lydia and Aila stare at each other while Laura stands between them, perfectly still, as if she has no idea what's going on. Then—

"Isn't this strange?"

She slowly approaches me and speaks.

Why are you suddenly talking to me?

Wait, aren't these two women fighting over me?

Could it be that those two like me?

I don't have any woman I can talk to about this.

No, I do.

Wasn't there a woman parasitizing my mind...