Previously

After a few minutes, she recollected herself, stood up, and with a new resolve, decided she knew exactly what to say to Tina that morning.  She knew that Candace was trying to manipulate her based on things Bette had said to her before.  But she wasn’t going to allow the carpenter to distract her from her mission.  She was the recent past.  Tina was her long time past, her present until her anomalous recent behavior, and she would be her future.   She briskly walked back to her car and headed towards The Planet. 

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Shane sleepily answered her phone.  “Alice…isn’t this early, even for you?

“Hey, Shaney!  I need a ride to The Planet. Tina borrowed my car for some early morning appointment.

“Hmm…that’s odd.  Did she say where?”

No.  But I need to talk to you about what happened last night.”

“Okay.  I’ll pick you up in ten minutes.”  Shane hung up the phone, ran her fingers through her hair, splashed some water on her face and went out the door.

A few minutes later, she pulled up at Alice’s who was running down the steps with a bag with needles sticking out, and a ball of yarn was trailing behind her.  “Oh, shit!  I can’t keep up with these things!”  She ran back to retrieve it and jumped into Shane’s car.

After bantering about the weather, they arrived at The Planet and ordered their drinks.  When they sat down, Alice struggled with a knitting project for her next L.A. Magazine article, realizing that knitting wasn’t her gift.   Shane randomly leafed through a magazine she picked up off the stack near the window, looking rather detached from the goings on around her.

To get her thoughts away from the pain of what had happened with Cherie Jaffe, Shane said, “So, you wanted to tell me about last night.  Does it have to do with Tina?"

“Well, Bette still hasn’t called her.  And she went out late last night and got me all worried.  Turns out she drove by the house and didn’t see Bette’s car, and she came back really upset.”

“That sucks.  There’s something really wrong when God lets two people who are meant to be together come apart like that.”