Dana entered The Planet early on Saturday morning without a worry in the world. Her fiance, Tonya was out organising their spring wedding, and Dana couldn’t help but feel relieved having this little break away from her outgoing personality. She was also happy due to the fact that Alice had called her there to catch up. After Dana and Tonya had announced their engagement, Alice had seemed really distant, and a weird tension filled the usually comfortable relationship between the two of them. Something which Dana didn’t care for at all. She missed being able to talk to her best friend at anytime about anything, something which she wasn’t quite able to do with Tonya. Deep down she wondered if she would ever be able to talk to Tonya the way she could talk to Alice.

“Hey stranger,” called out a familiar voice towards the back of the Planet, and Dana’s eyes soon focused on the blonde half sitting/half standing in her chair, waving her arms in an effort to gain her attention. She laughed at what an idiot Alice looked like, while at the same time admiring the fact that she didn’t care what she looked like, she just wanted Dana’s attention. Dana motioned to the counter, conveying to Alice that she was just getting a coffee, and Alice raised her cup before sitting back down, signaling for Dana to get her another one too.

Alice sat nervously in her seat, tossing up how to tell Dana the good news. Or maybe bad news, depending on Dana’s reaction. She tried thinking over the possible ways of telling her – ‘Hey Dana, you look nice, by the way I got a new job in Chicago,’ or ‘so, speaking about moving away for five years, guess what I’m doing!’ Then of course there was the one possible situation which Alice wanted, but just couldn’t play out – “Dana, I have been offered a job in Chicago, which I’m going to take, but before I go I need to tell you that I’ve been deeply in love with you for our entire friendship.’ Yeah that should go down well, though Alice dryly. Yeah she was in a pretty fucked situation – moving away would be hard on her, leaving her friends… her family, it would be the most difficult thing she had ever done. But staying here, with Dana married to that psycho Tonya, watching them together; she just didn’t think she could live with that. ‘Of course you could just tell her what she really means to you’ she thought, but she knew deep down that if she were rejected, she would never get over it, and so therefore, it would be much easier just to run.