Nice Tattoo:  Shane and Carmen

Scene 1: Shane standing in line at a crowded health food store and someone behind her taps Shane on the shoulder and says:

Lady: Hey, that’s a nice tattoo! My friend has one just like it!

Shane, turning around to face the speaker: “I doubt it.” Shane turns around to face the front of the line.

Lady, reaching up to touch the tattoo on Shane’s neck: “Nope. It’s the EXACT same one!”

Shane, knocking ladies hand away: “WTF! Like I said, I doubt it. There is only one other person who might have this tattoo on the back of their neck like this. Since I REALLY FUCKED UP, I doubt if it is still there!”

Lady: “Oh, it’s still there.”  Lady yells: “Carmen!”

Carmen walking up to the register: “What?”

Lady, moving aside to unblock Shane and Carmen’s view of one another: “It’s Shane!”

Carmen, dropping her hand basket on the floor and walking over to Shane, slaps Shane’s face: “Fucker!”

The other people in the store stop talking and look at Shane and Carmen.

Shane dropping her head: “I’m Sorry.”

Carmen, with her hands on her hips: “You’re Sorry! All you have to say to me is that you are sorry? Is that all I am worth? Sorry!”

Shane, head still down looking at the floor: “I don’t know what to say other than I’m sorry. I’m real sorry.”

Carmen, pushing Shane on the shoulder: “Look at me damnit! You can at least look me in the eye!”

Shane raises her head and looks Carmen in the eye. Shane is crying.

Carmen drops her hands from her waist and cocks her head to the side: “I can’t believe I am feeling sorry for you after what you did to me!”

Shane, wiping tears from her eyes: “I tried to find you and explain and I went to your house but your brothers wouldn’t let me talk to you.”

Carmen now angry at Shane’s explanation puts her hands back on her hips: “OK, that explains the next day, what happened to the last 2 years? Huh? Let’s hear you explain that?”

Shane, dropping her head again: “Shay came to stay with me and then my business burned down and then Mol… (Shane’s voice trails off).