“Yeah, well one of these ‘prospective roommates’ better start looking good soon or I’m done with this *****. Even as bad as we need the rent. These people are just too weird,” Shane got up from the couch and waited till ‘Drew’ showed up for her appointment.

“Ew! Remember the one,” Jenny started laughing and held her stomach, “With the buck teeth, and the really weird purple eye!” The three shook with silent laughter.

“What about the bald one? I still say, that was a woman!” Carmen asked while still holding her sides.

“It was not!” Jenny shrieked and laughed some more.

“Her, name was Sam!”

“That’s totally unisex. And it had a beard!” Jenny barely got the words out before she snorted, then laughed even harder, because she snorted.

“No- No, the one with the ‘pet’ bird in the cage that was dead!” The three burst out in loud raucous laughter remembering this particular candidate, who kept introducing his ‘bird’ to them and trying to make it ‘sing’.

The doorbell rang as Carmen got off the chair and stumbled for the handle, still laughing hysterically. She opened it finally as Shane came back into living room, laughing loudly and trying to quiet it with her hand. Carmen wiped a stray tear from her eye and ushered the girl in, not being able to speak. She looked around uncomfortably at first, but then smiled, feeling more at home when she noticed the three good friends sharing a laugh.

“C-Come in,” Carmen managed as she sighed loudly and pointed to the chair. She sat down beside Shane and the three fit on the couch wonderfully, they were nice and snug.

“I’m Shane, this is Jenny, the other roommate, and Carmen, my girlfriend,” Shane said and reached a hand out to Drew, her gaze never left Shane’s, even as she told her Carmen was her girlfriend. Maybe she was cool. Maybe she was *****.

Jenny asked her all the necessary questions as Carmen and Shane hung back and stayed quiet, just watching the other girls reactions and manner. They had been burned to badly before- all three of them- by what Mark had done, they need to be so careful this time. Even Shane had to admit, Drew was really nice, smart too and even funny. She was quick enough to keep up with Shane’s apprehensive smiles, to the point questions and Carmen’s soothing remarks, as well as Jenny’s probing of her schooling, where and what.