After filling Bette with the information about Dana and Alice, both Shane and Bette came out with a plan. They decided to shoot it tomorrow at the Planet when the group met for breakfast.

Dana was exhausted. She was basically crying all night and had only slept for few hours. Now that it was time to get ready for breakfast, she got up from her bed and headed to the shower. She turned on the knob for hot water and stood under the shower. She felt pain everywhere, especially her heart. Realization hit her that Alice was already with someone else and it was all too late now. She had not been given a chance to explain. She had not been given a right to have a say in this relationship. And most of all she had not been given a chance to show Alice how much she loved her and to start all over again. Why is it so unfair? Why? After a few minutes she walked out from the shower and headed to the wardrove. She picked a black skinny jean and a white tank top. She looked at the mirror and sighed. Time passed really fast without you noticing it. Six years ago she was young and energetic but now she was already thirty eight and had wrinkles around her eyes. She applied a bit of make up and perfume and headed down to the living room. She saw Shane and Carmen sitting on the couch and were ready to go to the Planet.

Dana was quiet throughout the drive to the Planet. Her mind was wondering far away. Shane and Carmen looked at each other and sighed. Bette’s plan better be good, Shane thought. She pulled over at the parking lot and switched off the engine.

“Well we are here already. Let’s get out, I am starving already.” Shane jumped out from her jeep.

“Dane?” Carmen called out for Dana as she was still in deep thought.

“Huh?”

“We are here already. Come on, let’s get out of here.” Carmen unbuckled her seat belt and jumped out from the jeep.

“Yeah. Let’s go.” Dana followed.

As they were walking towards the Planet, Dana looked down at her feet all the way. She didn’t know whether she could handle seeing Alice and Chris again. She tried very hard not to cry at that point of time. It just hurt so much, she thought.
When they opened the door to get in, Bette, Tina, Alice and Chris were already there. Alice looked down to her plate. When Dana seated opposite her Alice moved her head up slowly to greet Dana. Dana could tell from Alice’s eyes that she had been crying all night. Why was she crying as she has already moved on? Is she feeling guilty? Alice looked away and put her attention to Chris. Chris was jumping excitedly upon seeing Dana.

“Dana!” Chris squirmed out form his seat and ran to Dana. Dana picked him up and put him on her lap.

“How are you doing Chris?” Dana heart melted when Chris grinned from ear to ear. All her sorrows were basically gone after looking at Chris’ goofy demeanor .

“Fine. Mommy let me watched Donald Duck yesterday night.” Dana laughed at the statement.

“You like Donald Duck?”

“Yeah, he’s cute.”

“Hey Chris come back here and finish your breakfast.” Alice looked at Chris. Chris pouted and shook his head furiously.

“It’s ok Al. Let me handle this.” Dana smiled at Alice.

“Hey Chris would you like some strawberry yogurt?” Dana said as she took the glass of yogurt and put it in front of Chris. Chris sniffed the content in the glass and looked at Dana.

“Is it good?”

“Yes, it is healthy and helps for better digestion.”

“You like?” Chris furrowed his eyebrows.

‘Yeah I like it very much. You can try one sip.”

Chris tried one mouthful and his eyes lid up after that. He grabbed the whole glass and drink it on his own until the glass was empty.

“Yummi.” Chris said and wipe his mouth. Dana and Alice smiled and their eyes met. Their eyes locked for few seconds and then both looked away.

The group looked at the interaction between the three of them. They really looked like one happy family. Bette looked at Shane which Shane gave her a knowing nod. Bette cleared her throat.

“Alice?”

“Yeah?”

“Do you think you can help us to look after Angelica today? Tina and I need to clean up our place today for their coming wedding.” Bette pointed at Shane and Carmen.

“Shane and Carmen agreed to help. We don’t want Angelica to ruin the party. So we thought that Chris could use a playmate for one day.” Tina said.

“Do you want me to help?” Dana asked.

“I think four of us would be sufficient. You can help Alice out to look after the children.” Carmen said. Then all their attention shifted to both Dana and Alice.

“Hmm, do you need help in babysitting?” Dana looked at Alice.

“Well one is good but two is a crowd. Yeah I need your help.” Alice smiled at Dana. Dana was happy that she get to spend the day with Alice. Maybe she could get Alice to answer some of the questions that were in her mind for so long.

“Great!” Bette said.

“So we’ll drop Angelica at Dana’s house at around 1pm, after we fetch her from pre-school. Is that alright?”

“Alright!” Both Dana and Alice answered in unison. They looked at each other and looked away.

“Ok deal! See you then.”