AN: Hi guys! Well I am back from my ovserseas adventures and had some time on my hands so finally here is a new chapter! It's fairly predictable but something I wanted to do, so I hope you like it. Thank you for reading, and please reveiw!

Paul and Lena pulled up to the house with the radio blaring, singing along to the golden oldies.'Paul, I have to tell you something I have been dying to say all day' Lena said with a grin.

'Okay..' said Paul gesturing for to go ahead 'speak'

'You, are a really, really bad singer' she laughed

'Oh really?' Paul said with mock annoyance. He grabbed his water bottle out of the car and took a gulp before looking back over at Lena. 'Well I have nothing else to say to you except..' and with that he threw half the contents of his water over her head.

Lena made a look of astonishment before shrieking and running around the other side of the car. 'You're going to pay for that' she yelled, laughing.

'Oh, I'm so scared.' Paul said a fake look of terror upon his face.

Lena was about to run for the garden hose for her revenge when she heard a faint ringing, Paul heard it as well and searched around in the cluttered car for Lena's phone. He finally found it at held it up triumphantly, and then went to pass it to Lena. She looked at her hands, they were all wet and by the time she dried them the caller would probably have hung up.

'You get it' Lena told Paul, who shrugged and answered the phone.

'Hello, Lena's phone' he said with a slight hint of a laughter in his voice…'hello'...'Helloooo?'

He gave the phone a funny look and handed it to Lena who had dried her hands on her jeans by now.

'They hung up' he said

Lena looked at the last call number and it wasn't one she recognised. 'Probably the wrong number' she said 'or maybe whoever it was just didn't like your phone manner'

Paul held up the drink bottle threateningly, but before he realised what she was doing Lena shot her had out and knocked the bottle out of his grip, it fell to the floor and the water spilled out.

'All out of ammo now, aren't you' she said with a victorious smile.

'There's always more' Paul said, looking in the direction of the garden hose.

'Okay, okay I surrender' Lena laughed, putting her hands up in defence. 'Come on give me a hug' Lena ran at him and grabbed him in a big bear hug, her own wet clothes soaking into his. Lena pulled away and Paul looked down, holding out the bottom of his wet t-shirt and then looking back up at Lena, who opened her eyes wide in her best 'innocent' look.

'Woops'

Lena and Paul burst through the back door laughing, but were stopped mid cackle when they saw Seth and Carmen sitting at the kitchen table, looks of thunder on their faces.

Lena saw Paul look from Seth to Carmen and then back to Seth who nodded slightly to him. Paul sighed heavily and ran his hand through his hair. It had all happened so quickly that Lena wasn't entirely sure it had happened at all.

'What's going on?' Lena asked 'What's the matter?'

Carmen looked down at her own hands which were sitting clenched on the table.

Lena looked at Seth who shrugged 'It was just a really bad movie, you know, one of those depressing ones intended to make all the viewers morose for the rest of the day.'

Lena gave him a hard look, he obviously thought her to be a gullible idiot. 'Right' she said flatly. 'So what movie did you see?' she asked him.

He frowned for a minute 'you know, I can't remember the name, it's a new art house movie anyway, it'll come back to me'

Lena then turned to her friend who wouldn't meet her gaze 'What movie was it Carmen?' she asked. They both knew that Carmen was the queen of movies and would never forget the name.

Carmen looked up, but at Seth, not Lena. 'Escape from Vegas' she snapped bluntly, 'and Seth's right, it was a shit movie' . Seth seemed to flinch and Carmen pushed her chair back and headed out of the kitchen.

'Carmen wait' Paul called after her 'we should talk…'

'Later' she called over her shoulder without turning around.

Lena looked from Paul to Seth. 'What's going on?'

Paul was silent and obviously uncomfortable. Seth looked up at Lena. 'It's nothing Lena, really, Carmen and I had a bit of an argument…. It was my fault.'

It was obvious they weren't going to tell her what was happening. She had a feeling that Carmen was now somehow involved in whatever trouble Seth had brought with him. That was what she had feared all along, two of the people she cared about most in the world, Paul and Carmen, were somehow burdened by Seth's secret. What hurt her equally was that she was now the only one excluded and Paul still didn't trust her enough to tell her what was going on.

She just stared at them angrily.

'Lena…' Paul said tentatively, reaching out to touch arm.

She just looked at him, said nothing and walked out of the room.

She was almost up the stairs when her phone rang again.

'Hello' she snapped

'Lena?'

Lena almost dropped the phone is shock

'Kostos?'