Storm Watch 02.30 – Average Joe

            The Planet late afternoon.  The sun was casting a golden hue on the world, and Alice was reveling in it.  She felt like a new person, she’d passed in an article to LA Magazine, and they’d just about ate it up, with ketchup on top.  It was some of her best work to date, ***** it was her best work. 

            She smiled as one of the waitresses brought her a coffee; she sat alone at the designated table of the Ladies of the L, as she’d called them in her article.  Name, and dates changed, of course, too preserved their anonymity, Ladies of Lust, Loss, Loveliness, Loneliness and of Love, so on and so forth. 

            A constant smile was plastered onto her pretty face, as she held up the picture of Isabella and thought about who this little girl was going to be it was a marvelous feeling.  They were all going to have a hand in raising this beautiful little girl, and of course the handsome young man that was her brother.  Alice had even gotten it into her head, that there was never going to be a Bette and Tina reunion, not after Tina asked Rosita to name the babies.  She took a sip of her coffee, well that was okay by her.

            The babies were still in the hospital, it had been over a week and they were, hopefully, being released tomorrow.  Alice just couldn’t wait, they’d all been taking turns going there and rocking them.  Shane was turning into a real mother hen, and Tina was a beaming portrait of happiness.  Rosita was at her side, dotting and loving.  Bette had even seemed totally at ease with Rosita being with Tina, and visa versa. 

            Bette, she’d been different in the last week, at ease was putting it to simply, she was at peace with herself, and with being alone.  Alice knew the feeling; she was comfortable with herself, to be alone at least for the time being.  She’d finally give up hope of reconciling with Tina, and that was a good thing, her harping on the past would only kill her.