Shane went up behind her, wrapping her arms around her waist, something she hadn’t done for a while. She put her head on Carmen’s shoulder, smelling her perfume and shampoo mixing. She just held her, wanting more than anything to take her. She could feel Carmen relaxing against her, melting into her body.

   “So do you two like it?” the older realtor asked, she came in smiling.

     Shane jumped off of Carmen, like she was caught in the middle of doing something very bad. Carmen was holding back her laughter, which felt right.

   “Uh yeah. We really like it; we just need the approval of one more person.” Shane went right to the lady, ready to negotiate the offer. She just needed Shay’s approval of the house she wasn’t going to buy it if they didn’t all like it. “Um how much are we talking here?”

     Carmen went and grabbed Shane’s phone from her back pocket. She signalled to Shane that she was going out to make the call. She dialled the number waiting for her to answer.

   “Yello.” Alice answered, she seemed a little distracted.

   “Alice hey, we found a house that we like it’s on um…” she looked for the card with the address, “oh yeah it’s 1826 Lavalle. Yeah I know it’s really close by, so you can be here in like five minutes.”

   “Uh yeah just let me get the little devil… Shay come on your sister found a place near by. So I have to…oh seriously you little fucker, let’s go.” Carmen could hear Alice running after him, “Jesus you’re fast…stay still. Now I know why they don’t let you have coffee.”

   “ALICE!” Carmen shouted into the phone, she really didn’t feel up to a hyper Shay.

   “Uh… oh yeah forgot you were on the phone. So you didn’t hear what I just said right.” she was still trying to Shay, “cause he told me you guy’s let him have it all the time.”

   “Alice look what ever just tell him to get in the car, tell him I said so.” She was getting fed up with the whole thing.

   “Shay, look Carmen told me to tell you to get your ass in the car.” Alice was shouting at Shay, “wow that worked, ok gotta go.”