I’ll be out soon. The words echoed in her head. She was almost sorry she would be leaving knowing she would more than likely never see the person who had guided her through the last 3 weeks again. Shane smiled and looked at Will. Will stopped in mid chew and swallowed prematurely.

“What?” she asked. Shane threw down her spoon and stuffed Jenny’s letter in her back pocket. “what?” Will asked again.

Dana looked perplexed as she shot up in bed. Lara put her hand over Dana’s naked back and lazily asked what was wrong. Dana looked outside the window and was quiet in thought for a moment. “I thought I saw something,” she said as Lara pulled her back down.

“It was probably a squirrel,” Lara said as she placed her head on Dana’s chest. Dana looked perplexed.

“Do squirrels wear yellow?” Dana asked aloud as tires squealed off down the street.

The grounds were strictly limited to walk around but could be done. As long as you had a nurse every 5 yards or so and it was between the hours of 11 and 3 when every staff member was having a well deserved smoke break. “How come they get to have an addicting substance?” Shane asked grumpily.

Will laughed. “Cause they didn’t get caught with the illegal type.”

Shane bounced infront of her. “Gosh you’re having the shakes again,” Will said looking concerned.

“No I’m not I’m just excited. I’ll be able to blare my music again, drive my truck…My truck! Oh man…” Shane realised. Her truck windows had been down and the fall weather had brought an unusual amount of rain. “It’s going to reek so bad.”

“Try not to think about it, cowboy.”

Shane stopped bouncing and frowned. There was a lot she was trying not to think about. She smiled, “Ok. It seems like Bertha over there is giving us the time to go in signal so what do you want to do for the next 4 hours,” Shane asked.

“Buy you ritulan?” Will said watching the very hyper Shane zoom over the yard.

When they reached their room Will crashed onto her bed while Shane, for the hundreth time, repacked her gym bag making sure her combs were on the top. Jenny had, after all, remembered to back Shane’s combs. And then, it was quiet. Before Will started enjoying the peace she looked up and over at Shane. She was huddled on the floor shaking all over. Will sighed and got down on all fours and crawled over to Shane, wrapping her arms around her. “I knew this was coming,” she said and held Shane close to her. “You feel cold but your sweating. The room is spinning but you’re not dizzy and your mouth is,” she started reaching for a cup of water “dry.” She handed it to Shane and she shakily drank from it. She pulled Shane up to her bed and tucked her under the sheets. Then, Will climbed in next to her as she had a few times before when Shane had first gone through withdrawl.