**

A group of passengers exits the train, and Carmen is among them.
She stops abruptly, seeing Shane standing in the distance.
Carmen silently walks towards her, looking at her straight in the eyes.
She stops just a few inches from her and ducks her head.
“I am amazed…”, she murmurs.
Shane’s face is crossed by the ghost of a smile.
“I am in love…”, she replies and immediately her cruel demeanor drops, realizing how happy she is to see Carmen.
She cups her face and kisses her.
They drive home saying nothing. They just exchange glances and Shane doesn’t even know how to express, in words, how she feels.
She stops the car in front of her house and carries a laughing Carmen into the bedroom.
They start kissing, deeply and passionately, moaning, and Shane carries her over to the table, accidentally knocking over a lamp.
“Oops!”, Shane exclaims, and they both laugh.
Then, they become serious, unable to stay apart.
They kiss again, frantically, starting to unbutton each other’s clothes.
For the very first time, Shane’s trembling hands struggle with her pants’ buttons.
“Fuck this…”, she whispers, picking Carmen up and moving to the bed.
They collapse on the mattress and, accidentally, Shane falls off it.
Her blushing face re-appears immediately and she rests her chin on the bed.
“Suave…”, she murmurs, blinking her eyelids.
Carmen cracks up.
Shane reaches up and yanks her down, on top of her.
They stop laughing, then kiss.
Again.
Their fingers frantically find their way through the clothes, and Shane observes amazed Carmen’s beautiful body.
Carmen just stares at her.
“Do you like me?”, she asks, shyly.
Shane feels like crying of joy.
“More. I love you”.
She leans forward and they start kissing again, inebriated by each other’s scent.
They end up naked under the sheets, and there is no inch of Carmen’s body that Shane doesn’t kiss, that Shane doesn’t caress, that Shane’s doesn’t watch.
She gently climbs on top of her, her lips running all over that tanned skin.
Carmen gently pulls Shane’s hair as she starts kissing her neck and that soft spot near her ear.
Shane’s kisses run down, on her breast, on her flat stomach, on her thighs, and Carmen’s body arch in pleasure.
When finally Shane’s lips reach her center, Carmen can’t help but let out a soft gasp, and a moan.
She shakes under Shane’s mouth, she murmurs something unintelligible in Spanish and pants and shivers as she finally comes.
She grabs Shane’s head and pulls it up in a passionate kiss, smiling against her lips.
She parts her legs and Shane quietly sets in the middle.
She looks Carmen straight in the eyes.
“Are you sure?”, she murmurs, huskily.
Carmen doesn’t reply. She just takes her hand and silently places it where she needs it the most.
“Make love to me…”, she whispers.
Shane closes her eyes and takes her, unhurriedly, gently, and Carmen presses her head against the pillow, closing her eyes and sighing heavily.
Shane starts moving into her body, her green eyes transfixed, and Carmen’s legs wrap around her waist.
They stare at each other, their breath uneven, and they nuzzle each other’s face, and they kiss, and smile.
“Are you okay?”, Shane asks, panting.
Carmen swallows and nods her head.
“Yeah… Yeah I’m okay… Please don’t stop…”.
“I am not going to…”, Shane replies, her forehead covered in sweat.
Carmen cups her head and kisses her deeply.
“I love you, Shane… I love you…”.

**

Hours later, Carmen is sitting on the windowsill, her eyes pierced to Shane’s, who lies in bed.
“Hi…”, Carmen whispers, smiling.
“Hi…”, Shane smiles back.
Carmen walks over to her and kisses her on her lips, repeatedly, unhurriedly.
“You alright?”, Shane murmurs, stroking Carmen’s hair.
“I am fine…”, Carmen replies, dreamingly, “…But I have to get going to my friends’ house…”.
They stare at each other for a long time, then Carmen ducks her head, sheepishly.
“Was it…?”.
Shane silences her, gently placing her finger on her lips.
“It was perfect”.
Carmen smiles.

**

Carmen closes the door of Shane’s room behind her back, and walks down the hall.
She passes a mirror on the wall.
In the mirror’s reflection is Jenny, and her eyes are flaming with rage.