Stricken chapter 2

Shane’s senses woke slowly one by one. She smelled the faint scent of skateboard wax, she heard cars go by outside her window, she felt the sheets underneath her, soft and warm, she didn’t want to get up. She opened her eyes and focused on a crack in her ceiling right near her light fixture, she turned her attention to the alarm clock beside her bed, the neon blue numbers read 12:20p.m. Now, Shane thought was the time to get up. She had another client to meet at Wax at 2:00, but she promised Alice she would stop by the planet and hang there until Dana was through with practice. She crept out of bed feeling a little achy, she stretched the sleep from her body and walked out of her room and into the bathroom. Picking up her green toothbrush, she squirted a generous amount of Crest across the top of the bristles. As she brushed her teeth the early morning came back to her. Cigarette, coffee, Amp, Carmen, walking home, wait, go back, Carmen….Carmen? Shane looked a little deeper and tried to remember her dream she had just woken up from. Did she have a dream about Carmen? Surly, not. Or…maybe? Shane shook the cobwebs from her head and rinsed her mouth. She had a slight feeling that she was still dreaming, just to be sure that wasn’t the case…OW….not dreaming. She went back to her room and slipped on her flats and took off to the Planet.

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Planet:

Alice was trying her best at knitting, she looked utterly confused, Shane kept her laughter inside. She looked around for Kit, Kit caught sight of her.

Kit:Hey, usual?

Shane:Thanks, Kit.

Shane slid into a seat next to Alice, and waited for her to aknowledge her prescence. Alice looks up and, out of frustration, slammed her knitting down on the table.

Alice:Ok, I’m going back to not wanting to be a cool lesbian.

Shane:Well, what’s wrong with you, Pumpkin?

Alice:Why are you so bouncy on a Monday afternoon?

Shane:It’s Monday?

Kit:(Sneaking up to the table)Here ya go, Shane. Alice you want another?

Alice:No they make me pee too much.

Kit:Ooookay, see ya guys later.

Alice sipped the last of the tea she had in her glass. Shane heard the ice hitting her teeth, and Alice winced at the cold.

Alice:Did you just wake up?

Shane:Yeah, pretty much, why?

Alice:Lucky, I had a deadline this morning, and I can’t sleep worth a fuck while i’m waiting for my boss to read it.

Shane:I had an extra early morning delight.

Alice:What the hell does that mean?

Shane:Chase had me do his friend at 5 this morning. Her name was Carmen.

Alice:Her name was Carmen?

Shane:Yeah, you know her?

Alice looked at Shane strangely.

Alice:No…you just said her name in a really thoughtful, but breezy way.

Shane:Oh, what the hell are you talking about?

Alice:You like her?

Shane:Are you kidding me right now?

Alice:What! Shane I’m not the one being weird, here!

Shane thought before she spoke, in an effoert to change the subject….

Shane:I had a dream about her.

What! That’s not changing the subject, Shane! In fact that’s just random! Now wha is Alice going to have to say…

If Alice had been eating she would have choked to death.

Alice:A dream?

Shane sighed and tried to look at anyone, but Al, as she was trying to do so her eyes feel upon the window and huh hum who is walking toward the door of the planet, scratch that who is walking in the door of the planet?…

Shane:Oh…wha….hey, that’s her!

Alice looked left then right, and up then she smiled.

Alice:Hey it’s you girlfriend…

Shane reserved the feeling she had to shut Alice up. She watched Carmen order a drink at the counter and then wait………finally Kit handed her a plastic cup with pink contents and Carmen was walking out the door. She moved to follow, but hesitated, then she followed. Leaving Alice at the table…

Alice:Wha…(yelling) Hey Kit, KIT call an excorcist, Shane is possesed!