“Whatever shall we do for all this time?”

Shane laughed, “I don’t know. It’s going to be so horrible!”

Carmen was now straddling Shane, their hips subconsciously grinding against the other’s, reveling in the feeling of finally touching again. Shane’s fingers slowly trailed their way up the inside of Carmen’s bare thighs, and she moved to kiss down Carmen’s neck slowly. Suddenly, Carmen grabbed Shane’s wrist firmly keeping it in place just below where they both wanted it to be.

“What?” Shane asked huskily, not pulling her lips from Carmen’s neck.

“We can’t.”

“Why not?” Shane continued to kiss her girlfriend’s neck, moving lower to place a kiss where Carmen’s neck met her shoulder.

“Because,” Carmen began, standing up and starting to get dressed, “we said no sex early on, so we’re not going to have sex.”

“No, you said no sex, I groaned and said ‘fine’. I still don’t understand why not.”

“Because we never solved anything, Shane! It was just, fight, then fuck, and then it was over and we kept resenting each other for it, but it was never solved, we never talked about anything. We’d fight, and then one of us would try to apologize, but instead of talking about it like we should, we’d start making out, and then end up fucking, and not talking.”

“Most people would kill for a relationship like that, Carmen!”

“Like who?”

“Like every man in the fucking universe!”

“Yeah, well, in case you haven’t noticed, Shane, I’m not a man, and neither are you! Talk to most women and they would say that they want a relationship where they can talk about things, and work through things.”

Shane sighed and leaned her head back against the wall. A long silence ensued, until finally, a light bulb flickered on in Carmen head.

“Shane, please tell me you have a cigarette.”

“Since when do you smoke?”

“I don’t, but do you have a cigarette. And a lighter.”

“Uh… I think so, why?”

“Give them to me.”

“Why?” Shane asked, pulling them out of her pocket.

“You’ll see.”

Carmen grabbed the lighter from Shane’s hand and stood up next to her on the bench. She lit the cigarette, and reached up to try and put it in a little nook in the smoke detector.