"Nothing" I said looking back down at the chinese food on my plate. "C'mon girl you can trust us." Shana said putting her hand on my arm. I looked up at them as the tears formed in my eyes "last night I went by Shane's. And his ex was there, they were fighting and the next thing I know they were kissing." I said trying to be calm. DeLana's eyes got big. "Oh honey i'm so sorry" she said. "It will be ok" Shana said "have you talked to him?". I shook my head no. DeLana sighed "well ya know what? We are going to go to the spa and pamper ourselves. Then when you go home you can figure this all out." I just shook my head. "I am going somewhere for a couple days. Shane has a key to my place and I can't stay anywhere where he will be able to talk to me. I just want to be away from him and everything for a few days." I said, feeling a little better now that I had a chance to went about the situation. "Well, I have an extra room if you want it. You are more than welcome to it" DeLana said "That is very nice of you, thanks" I said managing a smile. "No prob girl, what are friends for?" she asked playfully "alright! Enough sadness, lets go enjoy ourselves" she said standing up. We drove into Charlotte, we had appointments at Oasis, which was in the Historic Elizabeth community. We spent the rest of the afternoon chatting and relaxing.
DeLana had told Shana to go ahead, she would ride with me to my house so I could get some clothes for a few days. When we arrived at my house Shane was already there. I quickly made a u-turn and headed the other direction. "Ya'll have a wal-mart in Winston-Salem?" I asked chucking uncomfotably. "Yeah" DeLana said smiling. We drove the hour back to Winston-Salem. When we pulled up to their house I was very impressed. "God your house is lovely" I said grabbing the bags of stuff I got from wal-mart. "Thanks" she said kinda shyly.
We walked into the huge house, it was nicely decorated. Alot of beige and whites. I could hear someone rustling around in the kitchen. "Babe? Is that you?" the man, which I could only assume was her husband Kevin, say. "Yeah it's me. I brought Shannon with me." she answered putting her purse down. "Cool" Kevin said walking in. He kissed DeLana on the cheek, and stuck his hand out to me. "Nice to see you again" he said shaking my hand. He quickly diverted his attention from me to DeLana, "i'm starving" he said giving her a puppy dog look. "And?....." DeLana said giving him a "what do you want me to do about it look". Kevin chuckled "that's right I married the one woman that can't cook!" DeLana playfully shoved Kevin. He rubbed his shoulder acting like she hurt him. DeLana rolled her eyes "well let me show Shannon the spare room and then we can all go get something to eat" she said motioning for me to follow her. We walked up the stairs and down a long hallway. The hallway was covered with pictures, I stopped at one. It was Kevin and DeLana, they were at Indy after his win in 2003. They were both knelt down, kissing the bricks that were on the front stretch. I chuckled and kept walking. She showed me the room that she was so graciously letting me stay in for a couple of days. "You can get freshened up and then we can go". She headed into her bedroom and shut the door behind her.
I quickly brushed my hair and touched up my make-up. I had decided not to change, the clothes I had on were fine for a casual dinner. Before I went downstairs to meet Kevin and DeLana I sat down on the bed. I picked up my cell phone, which I had turned off after the 10th time Shane had called, I hit the power button and waited as it turned on. I hit the speedial to check my messages. "You have 25 new messages. Your mailbox is full." I took a deep breath and started listening. "Shannon it's me" Shane's voice said. "Delete" I said message after message. I knew I should have listened to Shane's explanation but not today. Almost all of them were from Shane, there was one from my sister and two from Billy. I quickly called my sister back on her cell phone. I knew Shane would be at the house and I did not wanna risk him answering the phone. "Hey, where the hell are you?" she asked, sounding concerned. "Im at a friends, look alot of stuff went down the other night and I just don't want to talk to or about him until I come home" I answered "don't tell him that you have talked to me" I stated firmly. Pam explained that Shane had been there most of the time since I took off, he just moped around, asking every couple of hours or so if Pam had heard from me. I sighed, trying to figure out why he was so upset. I told Pam I would be back in a couple of days, and to make sure that Shane wasn't in the house when I got there.
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"Thank you soo much DeLana" I said hugging my new friend. DeLana smiled, "No problem at all. I know what it's like to have relationship problems." she said. I got into my car and De walked up to the window. "Hey call me tonight and lemme know what's up" she said. "Ok" I said putting the key into the ignition. I drove the hour or so drive home and pulled into the driveway. I sigh of relief escaped my lips when I saw that Shane's truck wasn't in the driveway. I walked into the house and Pam bolted out from her room. "Hey" she said hugging me. "Shane told me what happened and..." I put up my hand up to stop her. "Look I dont want to deal with this right now" I said and headed for my room.
