Suddenly the door opened and Naomi practically jumped up. It was Carmen who looked surprised.
"I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to interrupt you."

"What? No, you didn’t interrupt anything. We’re done with the medical check-up. Everything is fine, Miss McCutcheon. I will give you the release papers and you can go."

She quickly got out of the room and Carmen frowned looking at me in a suspicious way as if she just caught me red-handed.

"Wow. Did I interrupt something?"

"No. She was just checking my injury."

"Okay…Here I got you some bagels and a coffee at the Planet."

Although I said the truth she looked hurt and angry. She gave me my breakfast and began to pack my stuff. I thought that she would be happy to see me since I told her the truth about my feelings. Of course I didn’t expect her to run back into my arms, but I still thought or at least hoped that she would be happy about it.

Instead she was quite and angry. She even avoided eye contact. I got up and walked over to her.

"Carmen…can you please stop packing my stuff and tell me what’s wrong? I didn’t do anything with the nurse. She was just giving me a medical check-up. Why are you upset?"

She didn’t answer so I turned her around. Tears were rolling down her face. I didn’t know why she cried, I just took her into my arms and hugged her tightly kissing her cheek.

"Shh…hey…everything’s fine, okay? I’m here for you…did something happen?"

"I…I’m sorry I didn’t mean to freak out like that. I’m acting like a stupid child."

"It’s okay…just tell me what’s wrong."

"I…I got your letter…"

"And you’re still angry at me?"

"No…I’m not angry at you. It’s just that…gosh that’s so stupid."

"Come on, Carmen. Just tell me what’s wrong."

"You don’t know how happy I was yesterday after I read your letter…I waited so long for those sincere words…"

"Then why are you mad?"

"I had a nightmare…"

Oh no…not one of these again. Once she had a dream about me leaving her for Cherie. She was mad at me all day long although I didn’t leave her.

"Oh okay…what was it about?"

"We…we were married and had a baby. Shay was there, too. We were a family. Then you cheated on me and you told me that you could never stop cheating on me because you don’t care for commited relationships. You told me that I should accept you the way you are…I didn’t want to…"

I had to digest this nightmare myself. I was able to cheat on her altough we had a baby?

"Come here…"

I hugged her tightly and whispered into her ear.

"You already changed me and I’m happy about it…"