Tina’s POV

It’s Friday night and we’re quickly packing our things, because of an emergency call from Alice. Apparently, Shane boosted somebody’s career by giving them one of those punkish haircuts and now they’ll be grateful to her till their grave. Well, that’s Alice’s version, anyway. So, now we’re going to Palm Springs to some mansion to have a wild party for the five of us and rock the house or whatever.

Bette was reluctant to go at first, implying that she’d rather stay home this weekend, “be a mess, get up at 12″ and even watch Six Feet Under with me. But Shane and I managed to persuade her by telling her that the more you stay home and sleep till noon, the older and grumpier you get. I don’t know why, but it worked.

As Shane drives the car, Alice tells us the big plan for the weekend. She says today we all will be going to some “crazy ass” party that is hosted by somebody famous of whom I’ve never heard in my entire life. Tomorrow we’ll be sunbathing and checking the girls out and at night we’ll go to some striptease bar where one of Shane’s girlfriends will be dancing.

“Right, one of ‘Shane’s girlfriends’,” Dana says. “I don’t even have a girlfriend, and Shane has so many that you can say ‘one of her girlfriends’. That’s just not fair.”

“Come on, Dana,” Alice tries to cheer her up. “If we hit the big forty alone, you and I could always hook up and be happy till the day we die.”

Bette rolls her eyes and looks at me. I actually think that Dana and Alice hooking up is more than real – in my eyes, they’re a perfect match. Unlike Alice and Bette. I cannot believe how these two could be together for 6 weeks. As much as Bette loves Alice, they’re just from two different universes and I wonder how they even looked at each other, they’re not each other’s type. But then again, nobody’s Bette’s type but me.

We arrive in Palm Springs at a little after 10pm and immediately find the mansion that Shane “booked” for us. It looks grand, remind me to ask her whose hair she cut.  We wander through the rooms and it takes us half an hour to walk around and see the entire villa.