“ I knew it! I knew she’d go back to women. I told Alice that it wouldn’t last.”

“Dana, we’ve talked about this. Yelling at them isn’t productive. They can’t hear you and it’s preventing you from moving on.”

Dana turned to her ‘guide’ with a look reminiscent of the ones she would give her first tennis coach when he chastised her for not practicing enough.

“Sorry, but it’s really hard to resist when they’re …”

Her guide placed a finger to Dana’s lips.

“No excuses, Miss Fairbanks. What your friends are doing with their lives is irrelevant when you are no longer a part of them.”

Dana grabbed on to the finger forcing the hand away from her face, but not letting go.

“First, just because I died doesn’t mean that I can just stop caring about what happens to them and second,” she continued, her grip getting tighter, “I know them better than anyone up here and I know that I am still very much a part of their lives so sit down, shut-up and let me tell you about them”

The other woman had a noticeable expression of fear on her face and never took her eyes off of the former tennis star as she sat down next to her on the couch.

“That’s Bette. She had, what we all thought, was an absolutely amazing relationship with Tina.”

“Which one’s Tina?”

“There,” Dana replied, pointing.

“She looks like she’s under a lot of stress.”

“She is. Tina’s always stressed about something. Anyway, Bette and Tina were together and we all thought that they were happy, but then Tina had the miscarriage and Bette cheated on her with the carpenter. Tina left her and ended up with Helena who’s currently over there crying about losing a shit load of money in a horse race.”

She stopped, noting the disapproving look for her use of profanity.

“Sorry, it slipped out. Then Tina decided that she didn’t want to be with Helena and since she was having the baby that she and Bette wanted together she decided to give Bette another chance. But after Angelica was born Tina started thinking that she wanted to be with men instead and basically fell into Henry’s arms. That happened right before I died.”