Alice sat in her directors chair on the set of the highly successful show she was involved in. It was a show that had been running for several years now and was loved by fans the world over. It was about a group of gay women and their lives. Most of the characters were highly successful career women, trendy, smart and gorgeous, but all with their flaws and by no means perfect lives.

Alice loved nearly everything about her job. All the characters were adored by the fans for different reasons and no one character was dominant. She worked with five main actors on set and as luck would have it were also her best friends off set. They hung out with each other most of the time, both in their trailers on the plot and also away from the studios. Their lives even kind of reflected the show.

“Cut, and that’s a wrap people”, was shouted across the studio floor. Alice sighed. Part of her loved to be on the set all day as it stopped her from thinking of her sad lonely existence in “real life”. On the show her character was smart, funny, optimistic and sexy. At one point this reflected Alices’ personality, but recently her life had taken a downwards turn.

In brief, her partner of two years had cheated on her with one of their friends and this had made all the front pages of the papers and magazines. Added to this, so did the recent one night stands she had indulged in, in an attempt to get over the pain of her heartbreak and of course as her best friend Shane always said, a girl has needs! She was just looking for that soul mate she believed everyone has, that person that could be your best friend, partner for life, your everything. Bette, another friend from the show always laughed at her belief, saying that that was a myth, an idealistic view of the future, nothing that truly existed. Was happiness too much to ask for she wondered as she looked into space?

Shane – “Hey, wake up! You are not still wallowing in your own self pity are you?”, she asked as she waved her hand in front of Alices face.