Blank shocked unreadable face.

“I know Carmen. I know. It’s the way you look at me, like I am him.”

“I…..I…..don’t know what you mean.”

I place my finger on her lips and point to the walls all around. She nods. She gets up blanket and all and waits for my beat.

“We should take a walk and get out of here. Why don’t you go up and put something warm on and meet me out front.”

“Ok…”

She looks back maybe to make sure its me. I walk out and grab some flashbulbs and my guns and make small talk with Jenny who was lurking around again for some odd reason.

“Don’t you have somewhere to be?”

“No ma’am……is Carmen going to be alright?”

“I think so.”

“Are you in love with her, she’s so very much in love with you.”

“That’s a very odd question why do you care so much?”

“Because she is nice and pretty…..and no one should suffer like that for love…….bye Shane….”

We found Jenny maybe 4 months ago just wandering on her own down by the shoreline. No one had any answer as why or how she got past our defenses. Helena wanted to keep her…felt bad about her being all alone. She is 19 and she can fix things. That’s pretty much all I know about her other than she is obsessed with Carmen for some bizarre reason. I don’t like her. I don’t like her being around I don’t like her lurking….I am making a mental note to have J.R do his roundabout questioning thing. Its something he is insanely good at….getting to the heart of bullshitters……

I get distracted and I don’t see Carmen as she walks over to me. I was staring out into nothing where time and space meet. She cleared her throat and there she was.

“Was that Jenny?”

“Yeah….something about her isn’t right.”