Carmen saw Shane waving and head to the table and didn’t think that she would be around a group of people. Alice looked over her shoulders and pulled her hand away. She cleared her throat and fixed her bangs quickly. Lily looked at her mom coming up and ran to her, giving her a hug around Carmen’s legs.

“Hey baby…” Carmen holds onto Lily. She picked her daughter up with a little struggle and gave her kiss around her face. “Hey… I’ve missed you! You’re ready to go…” Carmen asked her daughter who nodded with joy. “First, you have to meet mum’s friends first yeah…” lily stated. “Of course… I would love too…” Carmen looked at the table as she got close.

The table got quiet as Carmen got closer to the table and you can practically hear Alice’s heart beats beating. Shane got up from her seat and smiled at Carmen. Carmen gave a quick kiss on Shane’s cheek like normally. “Hey… right on time huh…” Shane said looking at her watch.

“Yeah I know… didn’t want to be late for little baby…” Carmen smiled at her daughter.

“Uhm… are you going to introduce me…” Carmen started and looked at Shane, who couldn’t keep her eyes off her happy daughter.

“Oh yeah… totally. Well… uhm… This is Tina, Bette, Dana, Jenny and this is……… Alice…” Shane went around the table and introduced as where they are seating. Shane

looked back at Carmen and smiled. Carmen shook everybody’s hands, going around the table. “Hi Alice…” Carmen said to Alice as she shakes her hands. Carmen was cool with what was going on.

“So uhm… have you had breakfast?” Shane asked Carmen. “Oh yeah, yeah… I’m fine,

 I’m just going to the ladies and then we can go…” Carmen said. She put Lily down and went to the ladies room. Shane looked at her friends who were looking at Alice.

“You’re ready Al?” Shane asked Alice, putting her hand on Alice’s shoulder. Alice snapped out of her dazed and got up from her seat. Alice looked at Shane and smiled. Shane held out her hands for Alice to hold. She knew that Alice would be a bit nervous; it’s a new situation for all of them. Shane saw Carmen went out of the ladies room and walking towards them again.