//til my body is dust

’til my soul is no more

I will love you, love you

’til the sun starts to cry

And the moon turns to rust

I will love you, love you



But i need to know – will you stay for all

Time…forever and a day

Then i’ll give my heart ’til the end of all

Time…forever and a day//
I Will Love You by Fisher

Dana hastily closed the door to Alice’s apartment and nearly nicked
Alice’s heel in the process. Walking into the living room, Al was about
to ask her what was going on, but decided to keep her mouth shut as she
turned around and saw the look on Dana’s face.

“Al, what the ***** was that? You saw Lara? And Gabby? What did you
tell them?” Dana asked in an eerily calm voice. Alice leaned on the
couch, with her thumbs hooked in her belt hoops and her head hung low
while she chewed nervously at her lower lip. All the questions were
running rampant in Dana’s head, she couldn’t even filter out some of
them. “What did you say, Al? Did you tell them you loved me? Or that
we’re just *****-buddies?!” Dana couldn’t believe she’d said it out
loud, but was too stubborn and upset to take it back.

“Wha– Dane, is that what you think this is?” Al replied with a worried
look on her face. ******, IS that what she thinks this is?* “Great!
That’s just ***** great, Dana.” She shrugged helplessly, but Dana
caught the anger in her voice. And disappointment, perhaps. “I tell you
I love you, three times, mind you! And and, of course, it totally
blows up in my face,” she spoke the words mostly to herself, realizing
that this was what she had feared all along. “It’s exactly what I was
afraid of, but I still I still said it I am so stupid.” Alice sat on
the arm of the couch and buried her face in her hands, which soon
became wet with tears.

Dana couldn’t believe the words she heard from Alice. Her Alice. Her
Alice who was now crying about what she’d said. Her Alice who had been
scared but still told her that she loved her. Dana could tell how
insecure she felt about Lara, but she never really considered how much
of an emotional risk Alice took by telling her that she loved her.
Dana’s heart melted just seeing her girlfriend cry in front of her.
There were not-so-good butterflies in her stomach, churning at the
sound of Alice crying. Dana instinctively came close to her and
tentatively reached out to take Alice’s hands away from her face. When
she felt Al jump slightly at her touch, Dana knelt down in front of
her, cupping her face and trying to look her in the eyes as she spoke.
She was gonna fix this, whatever this was, she was gonna fix it.
Because it hurt too much to watch someone she cared so much about to be
in such pain in front of her.