The next morning
"hey Cat I was wondering if you maybe had any information on CeeCee's family's murder" asks Shane
"oh trust me I do, however it's not great, CeeCee would be destroyed if she knew" says Cat
"I don't understand" says Shane
"she was supposed to be a political prisoner, the killers were trying to start a war with Spain, they figured CeeCee would be too terrified to resist and given my family's connection to her family and my family's political power and influence they figured they could pressure my family to convince the government to start a war, CeeCee was never planned to be a free person after the murders, she was going to be a slave, the wrinkle was when she fought back, the killers panicked and killed themselves so the scope of their plan wasn't discovered" says Cat
"oh God I can see why you don't want her to know, though why target her family, surely any family would work" asks Shane
"oh if only Shane, her best friend's father was the finance minister for the prime minister of Italy, who by the way before being appointed considered CeeCee to be like a daughter to him, all CeeCee would have to do is literally make one call and my family would do anything to keep her alive, which would include pushing for the prime minister to declare war in return for turning Caitlin Serenity Valentina to them safely and they would not waver on the safely part, had she had even a scratch on her that she didn't cause her captors would have been killed, her friend was actually on the same flight CeeCee was and will be visiting today, her name is Sarah" says Cat
"she's not going to ruin my chances with CeeCee and Trina will she, I'm actually really liking the attention I'm getting" asks Shane
"not likely though her and CeeCee were extremely close, Sarah is aromantic however as far as I can tell sexual wise she could be interested in CeeCee but I've never been good at understanding other people's sexual drive, I only know my own" says Cat
"I'm not liking the sound of that" says Shane
"I think I just found out why you never had a steady relationship" says Cat
"why" asks Shane nervously
"you get jealous way to easily, do you really think Sarah could provide anything for CeeCee that you or Trina couldn't, like seriously dude, no girl wants to deal with that kind of thing, Sarah's main goal coming here today is to reestablish their close friendship in a new country, I can pretty much guarantee that anything else will not be planned and IF something does happen Shane you can bet Trina will deal with it after all Trina set this meeting up and the ONLY thing Trina has ever done without consulting either Tori, her mom or dad was courting you, if you have so little faith in them then you need to find somewhere else to live and continue to be a bad role-model for Josie" says Cat as she dazes out for a second
"I'm sorry Cat it's just girls using me is all I've ever known, I was the 'hot' guy in the band, I was told that all girls acted like that, even though I knew it wasn't all girls it's still hard to get used to girls not just using me, when I woke up this morning to Trina and CeeCee on either side of me and Josie on my chest I screamed and Josie bolted, I think I scared Josie really bad" says Shane
"hold on what, Josie isn't suppose to leave Tess's sight, she wasn't supposed to go into your room" says Cat annoyed
"she used to lay on my chest and fall asleep when I visited, she'd say 'I need my dosey of unkie shhhh cuddles', aunt Hannah said when I visited that Josie always slept better, it's just since aunt Hannah died in that fire I've been having nightmares that I killed Josie and seeing her on my chest for the first time since then I thought she actually was dead" says Shane as Tess walks in
"can anyone explain why Josie is having panic attacks" asks Tess
"when I used to visit her every month she's cuddle me on my chest, said she needed her dosey of unkie shhh cuddles, I've never had a problem with it till Aunt Hannah died, she was on my chest this morning when I woke up and I screamed and she bolted, I didn't mean to, Aunt Hannah always said she slept better when I visited, I'm afraid I've scarred her now, I really really didn't mean to scream" says Shane
"explain why you screamed" says Tess
"basically since Aunt Hannah and Uncle Chris died I've had nightmares that I'd killed Josie, I've been to therapy and I was clear of it till this morning" says Shane
"in normal please" asks Tess
"he saw her on his chest when he woke up and thought she was dead" says Cat
"oh God, any chance you can talk to her Cat" says Tess
"I can try, keep an eye out for Sarah, she should be here soon" says Cat as she heads off to talk to Josie
"right the best friend CeeCee hasn't seen in three years" says Tess rolling her eyes
"that does happen you know, Mitchie has been scared of you for the past two years, afraid you'd kill her because she didn't like one of the dresses you pushed at your work and made a public comment about it and you went nuts on her, now look at you, you're dating her and Caitlyn and I've never seen her happier, I'll admit she was really happy with just Caitlyn but this is a whole new emotional high for her Tess, maybe Sarah had to hide from something, I mean people don't just think they can start a new life in America easily" says Shane
"drugs Shane, she got into drugs, hard drugs, I don't want that around Josie" says Tess
"says the queen of drugs herself, bet you didn't think I knew about that huh, I know how far you fell after that documentary, sure I wanted you in my life Tess but I didn't stalk you just for the hell of it, I wanted to make sure you didn't kill yourself, trust me I'm scared of her too but I'm at least willing to give her a chance" says Shane
"I still don't like her" says Tess
"ok I'm going to be brutally honest Tesslin Tyler and you're not going to like it, you honestly expect people to accept this new you yet you are unwilling to accept that maybe Sarah got sober, do I actually have to call you a hypocrite or do you get the point Tess, because how you're acting right now makes you unfit to raise Josie and I'm not afraid to tell CPS that fact" says Shane as Tess cries
"I'm a failure…, maybe I should tell the judge I can't do this and they should find Josie another home" bawls Tess as Sarah arrives with her sister and Sarah's two-year-old daughter
"raising a child isn't easy Tesslin Chelsea Tyler, my sister would know" says Andrea
"h-hi my name is Sarah Cobble Essa, Trina arranged for me to meet my friend CeeCee here" says Sarah extremely nervously
"…. Andrea, is that seriously you, I haven't seen you since I was four" asks Tess shocked
"you know I never thought I'd see you again, Sarah and I had been kidnapped and smuggled to Italy where we were forcibly inducted into a cult there, we were stuck in the building for four years before the Valentine political task force shredded the cult and freed everyone, I handled seeing mom and dad again better than Sarah did, CeeCee was the only friend she could keep, yes she did drugs, no she did not believe anything post cult was real, she was completely convinced her and I had died so she didn't believe her actions had consequences which is WHY she did drugs, no amount of therapy could convince her otherwise, even getting pregnant didn't snap her out of it" says Andrea
"then what did, I'm looking into her eyes and I know what drug eyes look like and she's clearly sober" says Shane as Jennie(baby) stares at him
"I've been sober for two years, that should tell you everything you need to know, meet my two year old daughter Jennie, she's actually very excited to be here, we were informed there were young kids she could play with, she loves meeting new people" says Sarah as CeeCee and Trina walk in the front door
"I thought I recognized that voice, Sarah come give me a hug" says CeeCee
"not a good idea CeeCee" says Andrea
"what, why not, she loves hugs" asks CeeCee really confused
"I don't want to talk about it" says Sarah as she covers her face
"having Jennie snapped Sarah out of her delirium, she hasn't been able to get you out of her mind CeeCee and she doesn't like it, she believes that if the feelings are real then it makes everything weird between you and her, she tried to kill herself on Halloween because of it" says Andrea
"oh Sarah, I've always known, my whole family could tell, I was waiting for you to bring it up Sarah" says CeeCee as Dani waves Jennie over and Jennie runs over to her
"but either you don't love me back or you aren't available for me to love, I'm an idiot, I never should have come here" cries Sarah
"hey now I never said either of those things Sarah boo, trina let me know about Jennie last night, I may be involved with Trina and Shane but to be honest you were the person who made me realize I am Bisexual, Trina said it was ok, Shane what do you think" says CeeCee as Shane thinks for a second
"well we can't just let Andrea spend her life helping Sarah raise her daughter, people might think it's their daughter, if Trina is ok with sharing CeeCee then I am too, though only so far as we establish a no hogging rule" says Shane
"I-I don't understand" says Sarah
"sis you get your Caitlyn Serenity, with rules though, explain to her as simply as possible how this will work, she's on new meds and this whole sharing thing is going right over her head" says Andrea
"Shane hear me out on this, for the first week she gets me from bedtime till supper every day for a week and you guys get me from supper to bed for the first week, then we switch to every other day and she gets a brand new bed in our room for herself or for her and I on our days, by brand new I mean from the store, not some bed we have extra here" says CeeCee as Trina nods
"I like it, I get to spend more money, I'll buy her one of those princess veil beds if she wants so she can have privacy" says Trina as Tori heads to the hot tub room
"shane" asks CeeCee as Sarah cries at the thought of a princess bed
"I'd love to be greedy right now but seeing Sarah cry at the mention on her very own princess bed made me realize just how much Sarah really needs you CeeCee, how does two grand for a bed sound, does that cover it" says Shane
"so you agree to the terms" asks Trina trying to get a direct answer
"yes, assuming I didn't scare Josie to death this morning this deal would give me time to bond again and help Tess out with raising her" says Shane as Sarah pulls CeeCee over to the couch for a cuddle
"I'm afraid two grand isn't nearly enough for the type of bed my sister needs" says Andrea
"what kind of bed does she need" asks Trina
"the softest she can get, it needs to feel like a hug, though to support the kind of activity she wants with CeeCee she might settle for a slightly stiffer bed than she usually needs, I estimate in the range of around four grand to five grand for the bed itself with the box spring and around the same for the princess veil bed frame she fell in love with, we went window shopping yesterday which at the time she considered useless so she knows what she wants" says Andrea as Sarah falls asleep cuddling CeeCee
"oh I can afford that easily I just didn't want to seem like I was trying to buy her trust, I was going to offer ten grand for the bed and sheets and stuff but I figured that might freak her out being such a large amount of money from someone she doesn't even know" says Shane
"oh she does know who you are, from her delirium mental state, she considered you the God of the band, she literally prayed to you, not like in a religious way but in like an 'I hope your song does well and I can meet you someday' kinda way, oddly enough there is enough of a disconnect between what happened in her delirium state and this relatively normal state that she hasn't made the connection to you Shane and Shane Gray formally of Connect 3, when she finally makes the connection don't be surprised if she suddenly gets all cozy around you" says Andrea
"is there anything else we need to know" asks Trina
"yes, she's completely silent during sex or the other stimuli thing, everything else works as it should she just literally makes no noise" says Andrea
"and you know this how" asks CeeCee
"like I said she's on new meds, she doesn't normally do this, she was ummmmm playing with herself last week and she realized she couldn't hear herself react to it, she could feel it but not hear it, she asked me to watch solely because the meds can affect hearing and touch and she wanted confirmation that she wasn't either being affected by the meds or going crazy again, she certainly wasn't going to do it at the doctors, she's kinda self-conscious about it so if my sister and you do things Trina and Shane have to either leave the room or do stuff as well at the same time, she will not like the idea of people watching" says Andrea
"thanks for letting us know about that, I tend to walk around in by birthday suit in my room here, she doesn't mind that does she" says Trina
"with you doing that no, Shane on the other hand should avoid that as much as possible, at least until she makes the connection to who he really is, at that point she should be ok with it, she might even make a habit of kissing you guys once she gets comfortable with the situation around week three, at around week three of living with me she got used to it and would peck me on the cheek daily so be warned, anyway I should get going I have a few hour ride home, I work tomorrow" says Andrea
"oh, I was hoping you'd be here for lunch" says Tess
"my boss gave me four days off to bring Sarah here and to get her used to the area, I usually get weekends off so once she gets used to it here I'll make a habit of coming by for the weekend, Sarah has my number if you want it so we can keep in touch" says Andrea as she hugs Tess and leaves