Dana lay beside Lara and softly stroked her face. It had been such a crazy 24 hours. Lara lay smiling and turned to stare at the woman she loved before taking her fingers in hers. ‘Dana’ she asked. ‘Yeah?’ ‘Do you mind if i ask you about Alice? You don’t have to talk about it if you don’t want to it’s just that…well lets just say i was pretty shocked when i found out about you guys.’ Dana sighed. She expected Lara to ask about her relationship with Alice sooner of later and to be honest, she was glad it was sooner. It was nice to have someone to discuss this with. ‘What do you want to know?’ Dana asked. ‘Well how did you two get together?’ Lara enquired, her eyes widening. ‘O.k…so you know i was with Tonya right? Big mistake on my part and honestly I was totally just on the rebound from my relationship with you. Well…Alice kind of realised that I was deluding myself, she helped me so much. She saw that she wasn’t good for me even though i was totally blind to it.’ Lara nodded remember how upset she had been when she’d heard of Dana’s relationship with Tonya. ‘Anyway, it started when Alice told me not to marry Tonya one night and she kissed me…i was really thrown by it but i responded and was kind of guided by my love for Alice. We were best friends and now on top of that there was all this chemistry so i thought that it couldn’t be a bad thing. I completely threw myself into the relationship and if i’m being honest I pretended I was over you. I thought I was doing quite well until I saw you at the planet then it was just crazy, all the feelings I had for you just came rushing back in an instant as well as all of this overriding guilt. I was guilty about how i’d ended things between us and guilty about how i felt about you…but as much as I tried to hold it under it just kept surfacing.’ Dana stopped for a moment before turning to Lara and taking her hand in hers. ‘And here we are’ she said kissing Lara’s fingers. ‘Did you love her?’ Lara asked curiously. ‘I’ve always loved Alice…I don’t think i was in love with her because my feelings for you were so strong and when compared i kind of felt…well i felt so attatched to Alice. And i miss her so much, but i couldn’t let us progress and miss out on so much before admitting that we weren’t going anywhere.’ ‘I hope you can be friends again, and i’m sorry if I came between your friendship’. Lara offered. ‘That was my fault Lara.’ Dana admitted. ‘I got involved with my friend when i was still in love with someone else. There was never going to be a completely happy ending…Not that i’m not happy I have you’. ‘I know what you mean’ Lara offered sympathetically. She moved towards Dana and captured her lips in her own. ‘I just hope you’ll always think it was worth it. I love you Dana’