Mark fallowed her gaze and stood up "um.. its gettin late and Shane and i have to be up early so i think we should all call it a night" he suggested, hoping to get the others out of the house in an attempt to give Carmen a chance to talk to Shane, and it was working as all the girls nodded in approval and got their things, each taking the time to tell Shane good luck and tell her they’d call before finally only Mark, Carmen, Shane, and Jenny remained in the house…

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Jenny and Mark quietly excused themselves and retreated to their rooms leaving Shane and Carmen alone, they both stayed quiet for a few minutes before Carmen noticed Shane had almost fallen asleep again on the couch. She got up and walked over to the one women she’d do any thing for and helped to slowly lift Shane to her feet..

"Shane I’m gonna put you in bed OK" she stated more then asked

Shane was physical and emotionally to tired to do anything but nod her head, allowing Carmen to lead her down the short hallway towards her room, as they walked she tilted her head to the side a couple times, stealing loving glances at the women that inhabited her dreams but Shane wasn’t the only one stealing glances…

Carmen couldn’t believe Shane was actually allowing her to help her.. she would do it forever if Shane would allow her too, but trying to think rationally she chalked it up to Shane’s exhaustion and she wasn’t going to let the feeling that Shane might be coming around go to her head either.. she knew it was going to take more then just a one long hectic day full of talking to get Shane to open up and she could honesty say she’d wait…

As they slowly walked into Shane’s room, Shane collapsed on the bed face first leaving Carmen standing there with a small smile on her face… Shane looked like a little boy with her eyes closed and hair all in a mess… Carmen quickly snapped out of her daze and quietly walked to the foot of the bed and began undoing Shane’s shoe laces and taking them off..