The next few weeks that followed were a blur to both Shane and Carmen. Carmen, who fell into a quiet existence, knew that the day would come when Shane would come to get her things. That she would lose her completely, she just never wanted to believe it.

     She felt hurt finding her things gone, she laughed when she saw her running across the lawn trying to be sneaky. She never could stay angry with her, especially when she gave her those puppy dog eyes and pout. The one thing that helped her through it was the shirt, the one thing she left. Carmen knew that she had left it on purpose, and she loved her for it. What she loved the most though was that her favourite bottle of perfume was gone, and that neither Jenny nor Max knew where it was. It showed her that she still cared, and she had to believe that Shane had loved her once.

     The worst thing about all of this was that she never saw Shane; before she didn’t even know where she was, which scared the hell out of her. But what was worse was that she knew where Shane was, and that there was the possibility that she could run into her one day.

     She never did though, she found it odd since Shane was the most popular les in west L.A. she didn’t even see her at the Planet anymore, though there were always hints that she was there. Whither a group of young girls would sit talking about her, one exited that Shane McCutcheon knew her name. Or by the sudden quiet unease that fell on the group, she even thought that she might have seen her once. She hated it, but knew that she couldn’t handle seeing her, especially if she was with another girl.

    So one morning after she had spent another night at her mothers, she decided that it was time for her to break the news to the group that she had come to see as family. The only problem was that they were never really her family, they were Shane’s. She walked into the Planet only to be meet by Alice who was very anxious.