– Shane! Shane! Come one don’t pass on me! Come on! I’ll just call a doctor, wait here.

But Shane was too weak.

– Please, open your eyes! Please Shane. For me, open your eyes. Stay with me.

Carmen was calling the hospital while holding Shane. Now her head was on Carmen’s lap, whose hands were trembling and tears were rolling down her cheeks. Shane tried to whip them away but didn’t had the strenght to do it.

– Shhh.. shhh it’s okay. Don’t move. Just stay awake -And Carmen saw into Shane’s eyes. She saw the embarassment and the regret, she saw everything Shane had always tried to make her see. She saw Shane with pleading eyes trying to make her understand- Please Shane, I beg you to stay awake. I need you. Just don’t close your eyes.

They stayed like that until the ambulance came. Shane lying on the flor with her head on Carmen’s lap, while she gently hold her and caress her. Anytime Carmen pulled out and saw Shane’s face, her tears became bigger and bigger and Shane noticing this couldn’t feel anything but embarassed, after all, making Carmen cry was the last thing she had wanted.

Once in the hospital while Shane was being put in the stretcher in a room and being conected to who knows how many machines Carmen called Alice telling her all the details. The blond was there in a bunch of minutes and entered to the room almost running. Anyway, all her adrenaline was calmed down when she saw Carmen standing quiet in front of a pale and still Shane. The only sound able to heard  was the ‘bip’ from the machine.

– Hi… – Say Alice. Her voice low and about to cry- How is she?

Carmen didn’t move. She seemed like a rock, her eyes fixed on the machine.

– She’s holding on. That’s what doctors said. She has overdose and her breath stopped, that’s why she shouted down. They don’t know when she will wake up though.

– Shit, this is so fucked up. I can’t believe how she got here. God..

– Excuse me ladies – Said a man while openning the door.

– Doctor…

– Hi my name is Dr Shuster, I’ve talked to her before –he said pointing his head to the brunette-. We’ve done some studies and I got the results.

– Is she okay? – Blurted Carmen-

– Well “okay” isn’t the best word right now… but we believe she will be. We cleaned her system of any drug and her body just needs a little bit more of time. Then she would hopefuly wake up. She has suffered some serious damage though, so she would be very weak.

– Oh, okay… – Carmen was still petrified, no emotion coming from her-

– Anyway I came in here to tell you that visiting hours are about to end, so you may want to leave the room in a little – the doctor was as gentle as he could but anyway it caused Carmen to snap-

– What!?

– Excuse me?

– Can’t we stay here? I mean, what if she wakes up? She’d be all alone

– Well m’am, oficially neither of you are familiar related to the pacient so it’s not allowed for you to stay.

– But she doesn’t have anyone! That’s not fair! – Said Carmen more higher than intended- I mean – She tried to slow down a bit-

– I’m sorry m’am, but you have to go. You can comeback tomorrow at first hour.

– It’s okay, thank you very much doctor – Said a reasurring Alice while looking at Carmen- is his job Carmen. Besides we’ll be here tomorrow early. Don’t worry.