“Shane you ok?” She was hypnotized by her light brown eyes, there was
no way anything could bring her back from the world she escaped into
while looking within them.
“Are you sleeping with your eyes open hun?” Carmen couldn’t take it
anymore and planted a little kiss on Shane’s lips. She continued until
she felt shane kiss her back. They broke apart only so Carmen could
question what that was exactly.
“What were you doing?”
” I uh, I,-”
“Shut up Shane, just kiss me.” They both smiled into their next kiss.
Carmen did care about what Shane had to say, but had a good feeling
that she would just blame it on her occasionally “zoning out.”

The next morning at the planet the gang all hung out enjoying their morning coffee.

“How ya doing, Carmen?” Alice asked while she and Shane had just both walked in with Jenny behind them.
“I’m good, I’m good.”
“How’s it coming with your mom?”
“Not too great.” Carmen looked at her coffee, then looked away.

“Well you should talk to Dana, her mom and dad are like anal about the whole thing.”
“They’ve gotten better Alice!” Dana yelled out. The gang laughed it off and on the up side, made Carmen smile.

“I don’t know, I just wish I could get away for a bit. Like everything reminds me of her you know?” Carmen continued.
“Oh my God, I have the perfect idea.” The gang looked up from their smaller conversations to see what Alice had in store.
“My friend Brian at work said he had a cabin just a little while
from here that I could check out if I wanted too. He mentioned that it
had an amazing view and was well furnished. But honestly, that guy has
money, that cabins probably really nice. ” The girls put their coffees
down enjoying the idea. Tina was first to react.
“OK, OK, don’t add me into the plans; I got the baby to watch.” Tina looked at Bette who had been distracted by her phone.

“Yah, me too, I got two babies I have to take care of.” She quickly
placed a kiss on Tina’s lips before she took her call outside.
“I can go, it’d be great for writing some new stuff. A good
atmosphere.” Jenny mentioned it rather plainly. The girls all looked at
jenny with questioning eyebrows.