“Alright.”

Jenny leaves to go to her studio and Carmen and Shane go back to watching the movie. Shane looks at Carmen whose eyes are heavy. “I’ll be right back,” she says standing.

“You’re leaving me alone during a scary movie?” Carmen asks with big eyes. “Do you want me to be killed or something?”

Shane laughs. “I’ll only be a sec.” She goes into her room and grabs a pillow and an extra blanket and returns to the couch. “Here,” she says, throwing the pillow at her. Carmen laughs as she catches it. Shane lowers the blanket on to her and then goes back to her position in the corner of the couch. Carmen bits her bottom lip as she hugs the pillow. It smells like Shane.

A few minutes pass and Carmen’s eyes begin to droop again. She looks toward Shane who is only half awake; one arm is falling to the ground and the other is tucked behind her head, her legs are extended onto the coffee table and her eyes are barely open. Carmen places the pillow on her and rests against her. Shane looks down at Carmen, who has become extremely focused on the television and pretends not to notice. Shane grins and looks back to the TV.

The girl is once again being chased by leather face. She is creeping around a building which, of course, has no lights. She stops moving for a second to listen. Out of no where the killer grabs her, causing Carmen to yell, turn and hide her face while gripping Shane. Shane just laughs and places her arm securely around her.

“Tell me when it’s over!” Carmen cries from her safety in the pillow.

“Ok,” Shane chuckles.

“Ok as in I can look, or ok as in you’ll tell me?”

“I’ll tell you.”

A few moments pass and Jessica had managed to free herself and – surprisingly – cut off his arm. “You can look. The bad guy’s only got one arm now too, so you can be happy about that.”

“Good. The guy’s a jerk!” They laugh. Shane suddenly realizes they were still holding eachother. She was about to move to make sure she kept her word to Alice, but she was actually quite comfortable.

After a few minutes, Carmen looks up to see Shane asleep. She smiles and nuzzles her head into the pillow, slightly squeezing her; Shane unconsciously hugs back and let’s out a sigh, causing Carmen’s smile to grow before she drifts to sleep.