Chapter 13 and 14 Summary

The narrator gets an urgent call from Marla. She requests that he come to the Regent Hotel and do her a favor. Marla asks the narrator to feel her breasts as she thinks she has cancer. Indeed, she had a lump. The narrator tells her funny stories to cheer her up, but Marla isn't laughing. Marla glances at Tyler's kiss mark on the narrator's hand. The narrator notices that Marla also has one on her hand.

Marla started going to support groups after she found her first lump. This is now her second lump. After she found the first lump, she went to the public clinic. It was a sad and pathetic scene, and she decided that if she was dying, she didn't want to know about it. Marla said that she would often answer the phone and there would be...