“And you know me,” Tina laughs. “Right now is the high point of my day.”

“Don’t forget your bath,” Bette jokes, smiling sweetly at her.

“Alright, so now all we need is Carmen,” Dana speaks up.

“What about Alice?” Shane asks.

“Are you kidding me? We all know Alice has no life,” Dana laughs.

“She already said she could come,” Helena informs them. She looks towards the back, behind Shane. “Isn’t that your friend Kelli?”

Shane glances over her shoulder to see Kelli greeting a couple of girls sitting at a table. The girls act as if they’re in a sorority as they each get up excitedly to hug her. Shane can tell she is grinning through her teeth and looking for an escape. She shakes her head and laughs. “I’ll be right back.” She walks towards the table and can over hear the girls each asking her their own questions.

“We should get together sometime,” one says to her. “What’s your phone number? I’ll give you a call.”

“Yeah… totally,” she answers and Shane can tell her smile is unnatural.  

“You don’t have a girlfriend do you?”

“Uhmmm….” Shane laughs as she realizes that Kelli’s thinking about lying to get out of the invitation.

“Hey, babe,” she says wrapping her arm around Kelli’s shoulders.

“Heyyy…” she stutters, taken aback. “What’s up?”

“Not too much,” Shane replies naturally. “You coming to sit with us?”

Kelli looks to the side to see Shane’s friends watching. “Yeah, I was just on my way.” She flashes one last smile at the group of girls before turning.

“Ladies…” Shane says as they walk towards her original table.

“Thank you soooo much,” Kelli expresses her gratitude when they are out of earshot.

“No problem,” Shane replies. “I was actually thinking about watching you suffer through the rest of that.”

Kelli’s mouth drops open. They sit down with the rest of the group. “Hey,” they say welcomeing her.

“Hey girls.”

“Who were they?” Dana asks nodding towards where she had just come from.

“Oh, just a couple of girls I used to know.”

“More like your fan club,” Shane laughs.