Shane can feel the heat radiating off her, she can feel the pull from Carmen’s luscious lips enticing her own. “I should uhh…” Shane starts. “I should go to bed.”

Carmen leans back slightly and looks into Shane’s eyes. Shane looks away, unable to hold her stare. She gets up and walks away. Carmen let’s out a disappointed sigh and falls backwards with tears in her eyes.

Alice’s Apartment

Carmen sits on the couch; Alice is in the kitchen making something in the blender. “So you asked her about her childhood, which I’m guessing she didn’t say anything about?!” Alice yells over the blender.

“No, she told me a story about her mom!” Carmen yells back. Alice shuts off the blender and walks into the living room with shock written all over her face.

“What?” Alice asks in disbelief.

“She told me a story about her mom and her.”

“Ok, what the hell, she’s told me pretty close to nothing about her childhood,” Alice says and Carmen smiles. “Then what happened?”

“I tried to kiss her and she just completely shut me down.”

Alice looks to her ceiling in thought. She shakes her head and walks back into the kitchen. “I don’t know. You guys have some issues.” She pours her drink in a glass and joins Carmen on the couch.

“I don’t get it. It’s like one minute she’s there and we’re connecting and I know she wants more and then when I go for it she does a complete 180 and acts like nothing happened.”

“Well maybe she wants to, you know, keep the friendship boundaries because you guys are roommates.”

“Yeah I get that – ” Carmen agrees. “But then why give me all these signals?”

“Carmen…” Alice stops, unsure of whether or not to continue. “Ok, look. I haven’t said anything because Shane’s my friend, but she’s with a lot of girls.” She stops for a second thinking. “She’s not really the relationship type. Maybe what you thought were signals were actually just friendly gestures because you guys are living together and she wants to feel comfortable with you.” Carmen looks away with tears starting to sting the surface of her eyes. “What about you? I mean… are you really ready to get into anything after what happened?”