Helena:

“So she’s okay then?” Dusty said looking at me.

“Yes, I’m so relieved,” I said smiling.

“So you think we’ll pass the test?” Dusty said looking toward the large tent where Ivan was taking each person in one by one.

“I hope so, if we do we get to leave,” I said.

“It’ll be nice to be out of prison,” Dusty said.

“Do you have a place to go?” I asked.

“Well I’m sure I still have a room at the center, if not I’ll go to my brother’s garage, he’s okay with it as long as I don’t scratch his car,” Dusty said.

“What? Are you serious?” I said incredulously.

“Yes, very serious,” Dusty said, “that’s the way it has always been.”

“Well not anymore,” I said firmly, “when we nail this test, you can go home with me. I’ll take you to meet my friends, I told them about you.”

“Oh yeah? What did you tell them?” Dusty said with a smirk.

“I told them how you saved me from that crazy old bitch and how you protected me and then you ate me out so good in our cell,” I said.

Dusty laughed and said, “wow your friends are very open!”

“Oh yes, we have gotten to the point where we can see someone and know if they had sex or not,” I said, “they don’t even have to say anything! I remember this one time I went out jogging and I heard moaning from inside this limo and my roommate Alice stumbled out a little afterwards.”

“Ah, but that’s cheating she was moaning and stuff,” Dusty said, “I thought you could tell by just looking at them the next morning or something.”

“We can do that too, especially Shane, who’s like a freaking sex addict.”

“Okay, tell me the story then,” Dusty urged sitting down as there was still a lot of people in front of us.

I sat down across from her and like a gossiping little teenager and said, “so this one time, we’re having breakfast at the Planet. It was me, Alice, Tasha, Shane, Jenny, Max, and Kit. So Bette walks in and she has this smile on her face and we knew she had gotten laid the night before. This was when I had just bought out Hit and Bette had just broken up with Jodi, so we were confused. Either she slept with Tina, or she slept with Jodi. So then Tina walks in and she’s looking pretty neutral so we all looked at each other like ‘what the fuck?’ And it was Alice and her big mouth who talked first, she said ‘hey Porter, what the fuck, I thought you and Tina got back together!’