Chapter 10. 

              After our meal I leave some of the left over in the fridge for her to have it for dinner. Then we go up stairs and work on our english project a little bit. Then I almost force her to redo her bandages. She shows me my way to the bathroom and almost screams at me when she sees that I saw the white powder lying on the floor of the bathroom. 

 Shane: "I swear on you this is not my shit. All these belongs to Cherie." she looks at me with fear in her eyes. Did she just swear on me? maybe I heard wrong. 

 Carmen: "Shane I know, you don’t have to explain" I reassure her. 

 Shane:"how do you know?"

 Carmen: " You were talking in your sleep when I came in here" 

 oh my god. She looks like a deer caught in front of the headlight of a car. She looks soo exposed. And right now all I want to do I hold her in an embrace and tell her that it would be fine. But instead I just brush my fingers on her cheek, and I feel her shiver. She looks down. I hold up her chin for her to look at me with her amazing pair of green eyes. Her eyes have turned a shade darker and I can see the pain and the embarrassment in them. I don’t know what got into me but I cupped her face and kissed her on the lips. Although I know that I should be regretting this..but I don’t. I really don’t. 

             It was a quick kiss on her soft lips. But it assured her that I will keep her secret. 

 Thank god it was a long weekend, otherwise Shane had to go to school with the black eye and the cuts in her face. Cherie is not coming back before next weekend. I came to her closet in the mornings and we did our work together we did the math packet together. She lost hers so we had to copy mine. I redid her bandages and she wasn’t hostile anymore. I cooked lunch for her and she had the left overs for dinner. I tried to convince her to come to my house. But she’s just paranoid to meet my mami. Apparently my mom is gonna hate her. But I don’t push her too much.