"So I have to ask... are they a couple?" Ben spoke up, after a prolonged moment of awkward silence in the girls' room. Mal snorted,

"Jay and Carlos?! Of course not!"

"Oh come on, you can't see it?" Ben smirked, glad he was lightening up the mood.

"Of course," Evie said, smiling when Mal turned and looked at her in shock. Then she frowned, "But I doubt that they'd ever act on it."

"Why?" Dough asked.

"Things are just... different where we come from." She told them, yet again looking way too somber for her boyfriend's liking.

"Well, you never know. Right?" He smiled at her, "Things are different here. Maybe everything will fall into place."

"Yeah... maybe." She muttered. There was yet another awkward silence, then the mood finnaly lightened up again. This time for real. It still had a serious undertone, but Evie chuckled once or twice and Mal even cracked a small smirk. But after a while Ben began to get fidgety.

"Isn't there any way that we can... I don't know... check on Jay and Carlos just to you know... make sure everything is going okay?" He asked, doing his best to word it carefully. Both girls glared at him and Evie took out her mirror,

" We could. But we're. Not. Going. To."

"Sorry. It's just how do we kn-" Ben's question died off when he saw Jay slam the door open, looking uneasy and slightly defeated.

"Jay?!" Evie stood up. He stared at the two boys in the room, but not in a threatening way. It was just as if he expected them to leave.

"C'mon Jay. We're friends aren't we? You can tell me and Dough what happened." Ben told him, but Jay's facial expression neither confirmed nor denied what Ben had said. After a moment of just standing there, he must have realized how he looked because his body language relaxed,

"I just need to borrow Evie."

"Jay," Ben started again, but Mal glared at him as Evie got up and left.

"If he wanted you to know, he'd've asked you to come." She told him and Dough, who were both looking a little uneasy themselves.

"It's just, why wouldn't he be able to tell us?"

"I don't know... That's why we wait.'

Hurrying back to his room, Jay told Evie,

"I just don't know what to do. We both've seen his moods before and his panic attacks...but this... This was a mix of the two I've never seen before... I need your help."

"Okay." She said, and it would be a lie to say that she wasn't nervous. While Jay had a somewhat "complicated" relationship with Carlos, some looking at them as brother, others potential lovers, Evie did not. She was simply like the big sister he never had. Evie and Jay both had seen him at some of his lowest lows, so for Jay to be this upsset, it had to be bad.