Next day Shane tried to call Carmen but she never answered, not even one of the thousand messages she sent her.

It was already sunday, so she thought tomorrow could hopefully talk to Carmen and try to explain. It was hard though, as she had said, she wasn’t even sure what her feelings were…

MONDAY – SCHOOL

Shane had been nervous and waiting for biology class to come the whole day. Her friends noticed her being silent and a bit weird but Shane wasn’t that much of a talker anyway so nobody thought anything. On the other hand, Alice would look at her from time to time and stare to an avoiding Shane, so she kept her mouth shout. Finally when biology class came Shane saw her table empty. “Weird” she though, Carmen was always the first to came. She waited a little bit more but Carmen never showed up and tired of all the stress she had been carrying the whole day, she packed her things and left. A smoke would be good.

Once outside and almost finishing her cigarrette she spotted Carmen in the hallway.

– Carmen! Wait Carmen – but Carmen started to walk in the opposite direction, obviously trying to avoid her- Carmen please! Just let me- but Carmen was already gone.

‘Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck’

It had already being a week now and Carmen never showed up. Mr Sheppard had given a new homework and Shane didn’t know what to do so her only option left was to talk with him.

– Mr Sheppard, can I talk to you for a second please?

– Yes McCutcheon, what’s the problem?

– Well… uhm… you know my class partner is Carmen Morales, but she’s been missing the whole week and I can’t reach her on the phone. And it’s not that I don’t want to do the homework, I do, but I don’t have her adress either so I was wondering if maybe you had it or if you know where can I find her…

– Oh, right… Morales… It was my fault McCutcheon, I thought I had already agroup you with another mate. Morales dropped the class last week, she said she couldn’t take it anymore. I think she changed to another english class.