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“Dane you need to sleep. You haven’t slept for two days, it isn’t healthy.” Dana’s brother Howie grabbed Dana’s head so that she looked at him. Her eyes were tired and puffy, and her whole face looked drained. “Please just sleep. If anything happens I’ll wake you.”

“You promise Howie?”

“I promise,” he replied, his voice full of sincerity. “Now go”

With that Dana walked into her dark room, which had been left untouched for the past two days. Dana flicked on the light to see numerous items of clothing on her bed, and her mind took a minute to figure out what they were doing there.

“Holy *****. ***** ***** ***** *****,” Dana’s whole body began to hurt, her head started spinning and her heart felt heavy. It was Friday night. “Alice.” The brunette contemplated ringing Alice, but then realising she would only get hung up on, decided against it. She ran out of her room grabbing her keys and yelling to Howie that she would be back in a little while, not waiting to hear his reply. Ten minutes later she was in front of Alice‘s house, trying to think of what to say.

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Alice was still dressed in her date clothes, although she had substituted heels for just her plain feet. She had decided not to get drunk on her sorrows that night, deciding that Dana wasn’t worth the effort or money it took to get drunk, and so was overtly awake as she opened her knocking door.

“Alice I ca-” Dana began to talk only to stop at the sight of Alice, who looked simply breathtaking. “You look beautiful.” She said the words before she had thought about them, and immediately wished she could take them back after seeing Alice‘s less than impressed expression.

“Dana I’m going to be nice and give you a chance to just leave now,” Alice said to Dana in a calm voice.

“Alice I’m so sorry. It just completely left my mind that I, that we were meant to be going out tonight.”

“Oh I know that Dana.” Alice‘s voice was getting louder as she talked, and not wanting to wake up her neighbors, she started walking back into her apartment, allowing Dana to move in and shut the door. “I know that because after spending the entire week figuring out what I would wear, FOUR whole hours getting ready, and an hour and a half waiting here for you to pick me up, you were a no show.” Unwelcome tears started flowing down Alice‘s face, and she turned towards the kitchen to try and escape Dana. This was unsuccessful as Dana quickly followed her into the kitchen soon after.