Dana could not have imagined the pain Alice was in as she watched her struggle to get up the stairs to the bedrooms. They had tried having Alice put her arms around Dana so she could support most of her weight, but Alice had to lift her arms to accomplish this, and that was just to painful for her to even attempt, they found that even a light touch on her ribs caused pain so intense Alice said she felt it from her head to her toes. So Alice decided it would be easier just to take the stairs one at a time and try not to breathe as she stepped up.

Dana for her part was already feeling like a failure, a feeling she wasn’t accustom to. When Dana wanted something she had always just set her mind to it, and it happened, she was a winner. Yet when it came to helping her friend move up a set up stairs, she once again felt helpless, like a failure, just like she felt when she couldn’t help her yesterday in the alley beside Milk.

Once they made it to the second floor guest bedroom, they couldn’t believe what the other women had done for them. While Dana was staying with Alice in her hospital room last night, she had given both her key and Alice’s apartment key to Shane and asked if she would mind running by Alice’s to pick up a few things for Alice’s stay with her. Judging by the guest room, the others must have helped, and they obviously wanted Alice to feel at home.

They had brought over all of Alice bed linens and changed the guest bed so it would feel more like her own bed. Plus on top of bringing over a good portion of Alice’s more comfortable clothes, they also brought over her book from her nightstand and her laptop. When Dana walked into the guest bathroom connected to the room, she noticed all of Alice soaps and hygiene products had been moved in also. You could tell they thought about everything, and once again it struck Dana how lucky they were when it came to their friends.

While Alice was standing in the bedroom looking around at what her friends had done for her, she also was struck by the compassion her friends had shown, never in her life had she felt such sincere love and caring, not even from her own family. She didn’t know what she had done to deserve such devotion from her friends; she only hoped she could make it up to them one day.