Alice couldn’t believe her eyes. There, standing in front of her and bearing her soul, stood her best friend and in truth, the only woman she had ever loved. ‘I love you Alice’ Dana began with more composure than Alice knew she had. ‘I thought you didn’t’, Alice admitted gulping and opening the door wider to her friend. Dana took a few steps forward until she was standing face to face with Alice inside the doorway of her apartment. Their mouths were an inch apart and Alice could feel the warmth of Dana’s breath as it covered her skin. ‘I thought for a while i didn’t too.’ Dana admitted reaching up to touch Alice’s hair. ‘But i was wrong…i guess i mistook what could have been for something more than it was but i was being stupid Al.’ Alice smiled regretfully, not wanting Dana to believe that she could be so easily won over. ‘Can you forgive me?’ Dana asked hopefully, ‘Can we please try again?’  Alice softly stroked the palm of Dana’s hand and pulled her gently into a hug. ‘I’ve missed you so much’ she admitted inhaling the scent of her lovers hair, a scent she had grown to love and yearned for when it left. Alice backed away slightly to gaze up into Dana’s eyes. Their bodies were close together and their mouths a fraction away from touching when suddenly…

‘Alice, wake up babe!’ Gaby yelled throwing a pillow as she rose. ‘Oh *****!’ Alice thought. ‘It was just a dream’. She rolled over onto the side of the bed that was now left warm and empty. ‘What the ***** have i done?’ She wondered watching Gaby dress in a hurry.

‘Listen Gaby’ Alice began, ‘I’m sure there’s somewhere you have to be so it’s best we just clear the air now.

‘Clear the air?’ Gaby questioned sitting next to Alice on her bed. ‘What do you mean?’

‘You know’ Alice began, wishing that Gaby would quit the pretence of a meaningful relatonship and clear out of her apartment, ‘I had a really nice time, we should just be friends, never gonna work out and yadda yadda yadda.’

Gaby stood up and let her eyes bear straight through Alice’s. ‘Is that what you think?’ she began angrily. ‘Alice, i came back with you last night because i want to be with you, and you seemed pretty confident you felt the same’.