Alice

Two months later

I was sitting on my couch, my head in my hands as the tears that were now becoming a frequent occurrence flowed down my face. Dana had been with Lara since that night at Wax. Ever since, I had felt like I was falling apart, and with that I was drifting further apart from Dana. It’s not like we weren’t friends anymore, it’s just she had spending more and more of her time with Lara. Besides, as far as Dana knew, nothing should be any different between us, all that was different was that she now had a girlfriend.

I had continued to go to meet everyone at the Planet in the mornings, although I rarely went out with them in the evenings, usually opting to stay at home alone, away from the pain of seeing Dana with Lara. Dana was always at the Planet too- always with Lara. It was like she could not be away from Lara from a minute and it made me angry. This is why I tried to avoid long conversations with Dana because I knew that I would snap at her without meaning to. I think Dana had begun to notice this and she always seemed to give me a puzzled look when I excused myself to go to the bathroom, or to get another cup of coffee when she tried to start a conversation with me.

One morning, Dana tried again to talk to me about a film night the next evening. We had often used to have film nights, but we had not done this in the two months since she had been dating Lara. I know I could have invited her to come over, but I guessed she would be with Lara, and she had never asked me to do it, which made me a bit spiteful. I didn’t know whether I would be able to cope with an evening alone with Dana, things had not been the same since Lara had arrived on the scene, and I had often asked myself whether things would ever go back to being how they were. This upset me a great deal, I wanted things to be like before, and I hated Lara for ruining our friendship.