”Ok I think I’ll go…and leave you guys to talk about me,” Dana stood up and motioning for a slightly tipsy Victoria to follow.
       ”Bye, Dane, nice meeting you Victoria” Shane husked as Tina and Bette mumbled in their goodbye’s.

       Once Dana and Victoria had left Bette let out a loud sigh,

       ”What the hell are we going to do about these two? I mean this can’t be healthy for either of them.” Shane sat slouched back in her seat nodding,

       ”It’s obvious that Dana still loves Alice, but I can’t see her going through with this long term and if she breaks Alice heart again…I mean Al isn’t even over the first break up.” Tina and Bette’s faces register confusion, Tina leaned in closer resting her elbows on the
table

       ”What do you mean she’s not over the first break up? She was dating wasn’t she?” Shane let out a mixture of a laugh and a scoff,


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Alice’s Date 2 weeks ago


       ”So you were in the military….wow….that’s….exciting.” Alice stared wide-eyed and worried across the table as Monica downed her third whisky on the rocks in thirty minutes. Monica defined the word ‘butch’, complete with buzz cut, she was the exact opposite of Alice’s “type”. Monica leaned back on two legs of her chair shaking the table
and making Alice jump uncomfortably,

       ”Yeah, I went to Iraq, but the bastards wouldn’t put me where the action was. I mean, so what? My pussy automatically means I can’t fight for my country?” Alice’s eyes darted hoping for some relief from this nightmare her mother called a blind date,

       ‘It’s official…my mother hates me…I put her through childbirth