"Alice can I ask you something?"

"Of course you can sweetie you know that by know." Alice looked into Dana’s eyes.

"You are Angelica’s earth mother because you don’t believe in god right?"

"Yeah you know that."

"Well do you believe in him now?" Dana asked.

"No, Dana you can be weird sometimes!"

"I’m only asking cause I’m the few days since you got out of hospital you have been talking to him an awful lot." Dana said with a straight serious face.

"What? What are you talking about I have never spoke to god!"

"That’s funny weren’t you doing it just there "Oh my God, Oh God" I heard it so clearly." Dana smiled. This sent Alice into a fit of laughter.

"Oh Dana you are weird but I love you." Alice said through the laughter. They lay like that and chatted about how tonight had gone and other meaningless stuff, eventually exhaustion overtook and both girls fell asleep.

Chapter 19 

Dana woke up about 6am and got out of bed to go and get herself a drink. While she was up she heard a faint knock at the door. As she opened she found a rough looking Shane standing in front of her with last nights clothes on. Dana let her in and Shane walked straight into the living room and sat on the sofa she put her head in her hands.

"Shane what’s wrong?" Dana inquired looking at her friend with a look of concern on her face. Getting no response Dana walked over and sat beside Shane and put her arm around her shoulder. "What happened?" Once again she got no reply. Dana got up and went to the kitchen and made two cups of coffee. Walking back into the living room she placed one down in front of Shane. "Look its cool if you don’t want to talk, just drink this and you look as if you can do with a sleep. You wanna crash here for a few hours?" Dana sat next to Shane sipping her coffee from the large mug.

"I’m sorry Dane. This is the last thing you need. I just didn’t know where else to go…." Shane looked up and Dana saw the tears running down her face. Dana put her mug on the coffee table and pulled Shane into a tight hug. "I just can’t face going home just now; I walked around for a few hours before I came here." Shane said in a low voice. Dana let go of Shane and stood up she walked quietly into the bedroom and got the spare pillow and blanket and walked back out.