Tommy wakes up early with a bad headache. He sits up on the edge of the bed and puts his hand on the side of his aching head. His sideburns are wet. He turns on the night light and sees the wetness is blood!

Tommy shakes his sleeping girlfriend, Emmie, asking, "What the heck happened to me?"

Emmie, groggy after a short night’s sleep following a late-night booze party, says, "Nothing, how do I know?" then rolls over and goes back to sleep.

Tommy puts a cold cloth on his head, gets dressed and drives to work. It’s early, so he leaves a note for the boss. Noticing that the cold compress is now blood-soaked, Tommy gets back in his car and drives to the emergency room. Good thing, because just as he walks into the ER he collapses.

A day later Tommy wakes up in the ICU with tubes stuck in his arms, hanging from everywhere. He asks a nurse what happened. She doesn’t answer, but leaves the room and comes back with a guy who flashes a badge.

The detective tells Tommy he was shot in the head and the bullet was lodged in the outer edge of his brain. "You’re lucky to be alive," the detective says.

A short time later the detective leads a small party of uniformed cops to Tommy’s place. No sooner do they knock on the door then they hear a single gunshot coming from inside the apartment.

Inside, police find Emmie, Tommy’s girlfriend. She had stuck the barrel of a .22 caliber pistol in her ear and pulled the trigger. "Probably the same gun she used to shoot her boyfriend," says the detective. "The lab will tell us for sure."

Police close out the case as an aggravated assault and suicide. "We’ll probably never know what the problem was between those two," says the detective. "My advice to Tommy is to quit going to that kind of parties."