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Chapter 2

Shane’s POV:

            I walked in the door and set my bag down on the table, flopping down into one of the kitchen chairs. I pulled a cigarette out of my pocket and started to light up, but dropped my lighter when I heard someone come in from outside. I quickly shoved the smoke back inside my pocket, not noticing that it was sticking halfway out, and kicked the lighter under the fridge. I planted my feet on the edge of the table and tried to look composed as Carmen entered the room.

            “Hey babe,” She said, walking right over to the fridge. Shit, did she see the lighter? I watched her pull a bowl off the self and she sat down at the table across from me. “Don’t you just love Jell-o? I mean, what other food jiggles like this? It’s so much fun!” I shrugged, trying not to laugh. She could be random at times.

            “Um…pudding?” I took a guess. I always liked to see what I could make into a joking fight. We could be walking down the street one day and start arguing about the color of a car. The fights usually result with me pinned up against said car, which I can’t say I mind.

            “Uh uh,” She disagreed through a mouth full of the stuff. “One: it’s not clear, you can’t stick things in it and have them stay there. Like this one time when I was little, me and my mom were making some…yeah, go figure, a Mexican family making Jell-o, but anyways, we found Papi’s false teeth laying on the counter because he always forgets them, and we put them in the jell-o. We had gotten half way through the bowl after diner before he realized they were in there.” I burst out laughing. Carmen always had great childhood stories, I loved hearing them. It kinda sucked that I didn’t have any to tell her, though…

            “Sounds pretty funny.” I said, grabbing a spoon and digging into the bowl with her.

            “Oh, it was hilarious. He started yelling in Spanish, too. We were all just laughing at him.” I grinned my little mischievous grin.