“It is if it hurts the ones you love, and I don’t want to hurt anyone.  I’ve never been monogamous, not once in my life, well, sort of.  Anyway…,” sighed Shane the sigh telling Sam that she didn’t want to talk about it anymore.

            “Listen, Shane, I’m not looking for more than what we already have, so why are you so freaked out?” asked Sam.

            “Because, I want something in my life to finally work, and that something, that beginning of something with you has stalled before, and I want it work, to be real,” said Shane softly.

            “You want us to be real,” stated Sam.

            “Food,” announced Sharon, dropping the plates on the table in a clattering bang.  “Now, let me give you both a little piece of advice…,” began the red headed waitress.

            “Oh boy,” groaned Sam dramatically and Shane felt something coming.

            “You need to eat this food, and then go home….”

            “Home?” asked both Shane and Sam at the same time.

            “And fuck your brains out, its fucking obvious to me, and the rest of the staff here that you two, need to get laid…,” with that Sharon walked away and both Sam and Shane collapsed into a fit of laughter.

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            “So we’re in the supermarket, and Jess is being the biggest brat…,” Sam was saying as they walked into her house.  Shane was carrying a bag from a deli; it held cake, cookies, and a fresh apple pie.  “…he’s throwing things, yelling at the top of his lungs, and of all things, he’s cursing.”

            “I can’t see Jesse doing that, really, he was such a good kid,” said Shane kicking off her shoes, doing the exact same thing that Sam had just done. 

            “He was, but after we lost CJ, he was a pain, I thought about giving him up more than once,” said Sam seriously.  Opening the icebox and pulling out some ice cream.

            Shane was stunned, she couldn’t see Sam without Jesse, her fierce devotion to a child that wasn’t her own had been something that Shane had found attractive in Sam.  “Who would you have… given him too?”