“Not so bad, at least I’m not paying rent, what I make I can funnel back into The Planet, and I can pay back Sam that much faster.”

            “She actually gave you the cash?  How rich is Sam?” asked Carmen taking a bite of her eggs, finding them good.

            “How rich is Helena’s mom?” asked Lara as she took a sip of the juice, watching Carmen shove some food into her mouth, chewing and thinking.

            “Really fucking rich,” said Carmen with a grunt.

            “Sam is richer,” informed Lara easily.

            Carmen gave Lara an unbelieving look, her face changing from disbelief to surprise, then to something else, “Damn, and I coulda had her if I’d played my cards right, mierda.”

            “You’ll find your romeo, you know you will,” smiled Lara.

            “Oh, about The Planet thing?”

            “Yeah?”

            “I think I’d like to come back, I mean, if you’ll have me.  And, I can help you run the bar too, you really got shit for workers, and they need a little motivation, if you  know what I mean?” said Carmen, pretending to crack a whip. 

            Lara laughed, “What about the Shane thing?”

            “Oh, I can do that too, we have to go to Miami, and I think Brian has this whole thing worked out for Shane to do a shoot in Madrid or something, I’m not sure.  But, we can work around it, right?” said Carmen with a bright smile.

            “We can,” smiled Lara.  “The eggs are good by the way.”

            “I told you!” stated Carmen.  “Carmen de rocket scientist!”

            Both women chuckled, then they ate the rest of the meal on silence, enjoying the quiet company.

***** 

            Sam shuffled into Tina’s room, edging the door open and sneaking in, tossing one look to the left, then one look to the right.  She tried to step into the room, only to find the johnnie was caught in the door, the tug of her own weight pulling her back towards the door.  Leaning back on the door, head up, her eyes looking at the ceiling thinking that her luck wasn’t anything if it wasn’t bad.  The lesbian god’s had to hate her, that was it, despised her with a venom reserved for child killers and mimes.