As Dana sat on her expensive beige couch, in her expensive up-scale condo at 2:00 in the morning, she found herself laughing at how lonely and worthless it seemed her life had become. Nine months ago, if you were to ask her how she felt her life had turned out, she would have answered with a smile. Then probably would have gone on to say something along the lines of being complete and happy. It really was how she felt. Dana had made quite a name for herself in the tennis industry over the last year…and nine months ago, she was not only successful at her career, but also in love. She and Alice had finally gotten together and it was everything that she had imagined it would be and more. They were happy and she was content to spending the rest of her life with Alice Piezeki, the spunky L.A. Times journalist and now the quite famous voice of the radio giant known as KCRW. Life was practically perfect. There was just one problem…Lara. On the rare occasions that Dana was honest with herself, she would admit that the problem wasn’t really Lara, but in fact it was herself. It was her own fears and doubts that ruined the best thing that had ever happened to her. Dana had loved Alice for years. Probably since the first time she met the sarcastic blond if she were being brutally honest with herself. And then one magical night, at four o’clock in the morning, Dana received a knock on her door that would forever change her life as she knew it. It was her Alice. Her beautiful, smart, funny, and best friend Alice. And she kissed her, completely out of the blue, like Dana had never been kissed before.

Remembering that night always made Dana smile, and then it made her cry. It was such a special moment in her life and now all it brought her was pain and regret. She had thought that she needed space and a break from her relationship with the blonde, but Dana knew that it was just her heart panicking. She was scared of what it meant to have someone love her with the intensity that Alice did. No one had ever loved her like that and Dana soon found herself doubting whether or not it was the right thing, the right kind of love. So instead of talking about it like a grown up who was trying to have a grown up relationship with someone, she ran. She ran like a coward from the only woman who has ever truly known her and excepted her for what and for who she is, and right into the arms of another. Lara. At the time, Dana had thought that she was still attracted to Lara and so she used it as her escape from facing the truth of her own heart. Dana did love Lara. She was an amazing woman, but the love she had for Lara was nothing next to Alice.