“Give me a second!” hissed Helena as she collapsed into the chair behind her. She looked up and around at everybody standing in front of her as they looked at her expectantly, “I cant even get my head around all this right now.” she said as she maintained control over the tears that threatened to spill over.

“there’s nothing to think about Helena” snapped Alice, “she broke your heart and dragged it through the mud! You Cannot go to dinner with her!”

Helena was sitting at one of the tables inside The Planet talking about what she had done the night before—where she drove to Dylan’s house, ran up to Dylan like a crazy person and asked her to dinner before leaving like a bat out of hell. It seemed so surreal, was she really doing this? Was she really going to give the person who broke her heart another chance? Of course she was! She had to! Helena tried so hard over the past few years to get Dylan out of her head, but for some strange reason, she has never been able to.

Alice sighed, conceding, “Fine, go to dinner with her, but promise me you wont get sucked into any of her lies! Keep your guard up, Helena, you dont know what she wants.”

“She just wants to talk. I owe her that much at least.” Helena said softly, still not sure if the dinner tomorrow night would be a good idea, of which everybody could see in her eyes that she wasnt sure.

“What’s there to talk about! She tried to sue you—”

“But she gave the money back, didn’t she Alice. And she apologized. I dont care what you think, I need closure,” snapped Helena, “I need something….”

Alice looked like she wanted to interject once again, but Tasha stopped her “Leave it alone, Alice. She’s a big girl, she’ll do what’s right even if you dont agree with it.” Then she looked at Helena, trying to soften the mood, “So where you guys goin’ for dinner?”

Helena winced, “her place” and bit her bottom lip as Everybody said “What!?” in unison.

Max tried to make light and responded with, “well, at least if you need to you’ll be able to make a quick getaway.”
“Why would she need to make a quick getaway?” asked Tina.