Chapter Two
BETTE’S
Kit: (On the phone) hey baby sis!
Bette: Hey kit!
Kit: what’s the matter you sound like someone stole your candy?
Bette: No it’s that we haven’t seen Charlie since daddy’s funeral that’s all
Kit: Well, she hasn’t changed she is still the same, I wonder how she looks.
Bette: You know that she was in Iraq, for a while
Kit: you think Tasha knows her
Bette: Kit, you got to be kidding me, think for one second at what you just said. Do you even know how big that place is? Besides, I think she was a marine and I think Tasha was Army
Kit: So why you so worried then, that’s my blood anyway, I talked to Uncle Ralph and he said Charlie wasn’t in the service anymore. She became a choreographer; she is working on opening up a studio here in L.A. I think she will be staying here too.
Bette: Well, I have to be at the airport at 8 pm, or do you want to go
Kit: Nah… I have to watch the planet
Bette: all right, ill guess I will see you then
Kit: Bye

Back at the Morales Home
Carmen: Mama, here is your stuff. I am going out tonight just in case you might want to know.
Mama: Mija, where are you going, you need to eat first, I made your favorite
Carmen :( walking up the stairs to her room) “I bumped into Alice at the supermarket.”
Mama: That is the skinny muchacha Blanca (white girl) that was friends with Shane
Carmen: (walking down the stairs from her room) Si! Mommy
Mama: (staying quiet) Carmencita, you are a big girl and you are not a little girl either, I cannot tell you what to do anymore.
Carmen: I love you mama, but I can’t stay locked in anymore, I have to go out and have fun again and besides I miss Kit and the girls.
Mama: but you got to eat first and if you stay out call me, don’t go anywhere near Shane
Carmen: Ok, (giving mama a hug and a kiss on the cheek) Im going to get ready
Mama: (giving Carmen a look) just be careful

Carmen began to go upstairs to get ready; she knew she was going to see Shane with her new girlfriend. Carmen’s thoughts were running through her mind, could she have given up on me already; not even try to make amends. She hated Shane for that, nine months and “WHAM! I am poof out of her mind just like that Huh!” She thought.
When Carmen finished getting ready, she was looking hotter than ever, not like the same ol’ Carmen but a new Carmen, a single and hot Carmen, and she was ready for what ever was installed for tonight. She gave herself a once over in the mirror put on some lip gloss and she felt like a rock star!
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ALICE HOUSE