Carmen walked through her door to her apartment and threw her keys on the table. She was exhausted. Between all of her jobs and thinking about Shane all the time she had worn herself down. But that didn’t change the fact that she still couldn’t sleep. She missed Shane. Carmen walked over and pushed the button on her blinking answering machine. She was surprised when she heard Jenny’s voice telling her that she was leaving town for a while and she just wanted to say goodbye. Carmen felt sorry that she hadn’t been home when Jenny came over that morning, but perked up a little bit when Jenny left her phone number and told Carmen that she should call her whatever time she got in at. Carmen grabbed her phone and sat down on her couch dialing Jenny’s number as she made herself comfortable.

“Hello?” Came a quiet voice a moment later.

“Jenny?” Carmen asked. “I didn’t wake you did I?”

“No,” Jenny said quickly. “We just pulled off the side of the road for a minute and Burr is sleeping soHold on let me just get out of the car.” Carmen listened to jenny move around and finally she hard the door open and close and then Jenny’s voice sounded normal again. “Hey, I’m sorry I missed you this morning.” Jenny said when she had gotten out of the car. She perched herself next to the car and tried to get comfortable in the dirt as she smiled at the sound of a familiar voice.

“Yeah, me too. I’m sorry I didn’t get a chance to talk to you before you left.” Carmen really was apologetic to jenny. She felt terrible for using her the way that she did. “So when are you coming home?” Carmen asked.

“Idon’t know. I just needed to get away for a while. Sort things out on my own. How about you how are you?” Jenny asked.

“I’m, okay, you know. Could be better could be worse.”

“Shane?” Jenny asked already knowing the answer.

“Hey, I called to talk to you about how you’re doing, not about Shane.” Carmen said honestly.

“I know, but I’m curiousYou don’t have to tell me.”

Carmen sighed. “OK, yeah, Shane. She came over here the other day and just said that she didn’t think that things were going to work out between us. I mean who does that?”