Shane’s Truck

Alice had accompanied Dana to the police station with Shane as the chauffeur for the trip. The hairstylist had been shocked that such a dangerous event had occurred between her friends and neither had thought to inform her, at least Dana was alright now but it still hurt to be so out of the loop. Ever since they’d been together Alice and Dana had spent less time hanging out with their friends at The Planet and decided to have some ‘quality time’ with each other instead. Whatever happened to the three amigos? the brunette thought as she drove along the road that eventually led to the couple’s house.

 It had taken considerably less time to give statements and fill out the correct forms than the writer had suspected, however this was probably because of the catch, there was always a but, right? Even after the detectives scrutinized the video footage all they could see was the back of some woman’s head who appeared to be hovering around. Nothing illegal could be seen in the so-called ‘evidence’ and it was beginning to frustrate Alice endlessly. She was ready for payback; no one was going to poison her girlfriend and be allowed to walk away free, what if this was the beginning of what was to come?

Dana had tried to be professional about the whole thing but if truth be told she could remember very little of the previous night and watching the footage of herself making out with Alice brought on embarrassment more that it jogged her memory. She sat in the back as Alice and Shane rode up in front, the whole truck was enveloped in deafening silence. Alice was angry that there were no leads; Shane was irritated she had been too involved with hitting on Carmen to have her friends’ backs and Dana was becoming annoyed at the lack of communication between the three of them. They were playing the ‘let’s not talk about the giant pink elephant in the car’ game and in Dana’s opinion it sucked today. Usually she was all too happy to let things go and avoid the talking part but this was getting ridiculous.

As the car eventually pulled outside the complex and halted just missing the sidewalk, nobody made a move to get out. Dana could see in the rear view mirror that Alice was scowling and Shane was rustling in her jacket pocket to fish out her cigarettes. “You wanna come in Shane?” Dana asked, needing to break the uncomfortable silence somehow.