“Great now everyone is going to hate me” Carmen said “Have you seen her fan base”
“No they won’t, they love you, you and Jess are like the gay posh and becks of the music industry”
“I’m a police officer not a musician” Carmen sighed “I hate all this publicity crap”
“I can’t believe they asked the shay question I thought Jess was going to flip” Mason sighed
“Least it’s out there now” Lisa said “People can get over it and stop going on about it”
“There is nothing to go on about” Carmen stated
Jess walked into the house with Jace.
Everyone looked at her.
“What?” Jess asked
“Nothing we watched the interview” Mason said
“It was horrendous” Tina said “The questions you got asked were absolutely ludicrous and nothing to do with your career”
“Yeah I know” Jess sighed “The only way to shut them up though is to answer them”
Jace kissed Lisa before heading upstairs.
“He okay?” Tina asked
“He’s not feeling good he’s got a headache” Jess explained sitting next to Carmen
Lisa got up going upstairs to check on Jace
“Mason can you go for a shower please and get organised for tomorrow” Bette said picking up her laptop
“I’m going to go put some washing on and do the ironing” Tina got up
“Can we talk?” Carmen asked
“Yeah let’s go lie in bed, I have a bit of a headache myself” Jess said getting up and gently lifting Carmen.
“I don’t get why you can lift Carmen everywhere” Mason said
“Why?” Jess turned looking at him “Carmen still in her arms”
“You’ve never as much as lifted a grocery bag in the house, it’s always they’re too heavy” Mason mimicked making Bette and Tina laughed
“He has a point” Bette laughed
“Shut up Mason” Jess smirked walking through to her side of the house

“He’s such a mini you” Carmen smiled
Jess lay Carmen on the bed “That’s because I am just awesome to be like”
“I’m sorry they asked you some of them questions”
“Don’t be, it’s done now, quicker people shut up about it the better” Jess lay beside Carmen
“Yeah”
“I’m not exactly innocent either, and to be fair Shay didn’t hurt you, and he wasn’t bad to you”
“He still wasn’t you” Carmen sighed “And I’m sorry about that”
“Yes well there is nothing we can do to change it, let’s just forget about it” Jess said
“You need to forgive me first Jess and right now you don’t”
“Carmen you wouldn’t be here if I didn’t” Jess sat up
“Don’t even think about running out the room” Carmen knew fine well that was Jess’s next move “I’m here because you have a guilty conscience”
“No that’s bullshit” Jess snapped “You’re here because I love you, Yes I’m not thrilled you slept with someone else but hey we were not together, I was in a relationship with someone else who kicked the absolute crap out of me then shot me so we have both fucked up”
“She tried to shoot me, you just got in the way” Carmen stated
“And I would do it again tomorrow if I had too” Jess said “Where has all this came from?”
“I don’t want to lose you, and I’m terrified that will happen if I can’t walk, or all this shit keeps getting brought up about Shay” Carmen looked at Jess
Mason walked into the room
“Jess…Mama wants you”
“Tell Mama I’ll be there in a bit I’m in the middle of something” Jess said “Close the door on the way out buddy”
Jess lay back on the bed facing Carmen “Listen to what I am say here please…I am not going anywhere, If you can’t walk again, which you will so I don’t even know why I’m answering this…then we will deal with it, that does not change how I feel about you I promise you that, Shay will get brought up and yes It pisses me off but Kirsty pisses you off so were equal”
“Kirsty tried to kill us both and your sister” Carmen stated “She also nearly destroyed you”
“I’m well aware”
“I just can’t lose you Jess, I honestly can’t”
“Do you think I like being away from you? Because I don’t I fucking hate it, I hated it the 1st time 2nd time and the 3rd and I am completely to blame for the 1st and 2nd time and I take full responsibility, I was chasing the wrong dream, the 3rd was just idiotic Carmen because I was angry and would have calmed down, you left me the 3rd time, and now look at the position we are in, you should never have been in New York, I should never have let you in the first place, if something had happened to you that would have been on my conscience and I couldn’t have lived with that” Jess stated “I hate the fact your hurting right now, I hate the fact your hurt, and I hate the fact its way out of my control to fix”
Jess got up of the bed wiping her eyes “I need to go see what my Mama wants”