Susan and Nicole. Nicole and Susan. Nicole. Susan. Those names were running through Dana’s head ever since she read the screenplay.

Dana Fairbanks is an actress with quite a bit of popularity. She was young, beautiful, hot, sexy, intelligent, attractive, very talented, whatever the weekly issues of papers like “Inside” or “In Touch” stated. She thought of herself that way, everytime she looked in the mirror, got photographed while getting her Caramel Frappaccino from Starbucks every morning or standing in the flashlights of reporters on the red carpet at night. But now she was standing on a stage, having all those things in mind and couldn’t think of a time when she had more doubts about herself in her entire life. Growing up, her parents dragged her from one beauty contest to the next, gave her lessons in singing, dancing, acting, modelling and when it came the time in puberty a personal trainer was hired to try to let her stay in shape while the hormones changed her body. And now this, Dana thought. Having had her 27^th movie shot and being part of her second television show, she never had to do a sex scene while being completely nude. To be honest, her agent told her she kind of had to, since she was playing the part of Nicole Stewart in the first television show all about the lives of lesbians in the city of New York. Gulping a few more times she shed her robe and quickly dove under the covers of the bed, trying to ignore the fact that about fifteen more people just saw that.

Still in the green room a very nervous Alice Pieszecki was getting her last touch of make up done. She cursed herself first, then the authors, going on to the producers and ended up blaming herself again for choosing this sort of career. ‘Why would they shoot the sex scene first, before both of the actresses really had a chance to meet, to get to know each other, or would have at least played some other scenes together.’ Recently Alice got a call from her agent, stating that the original cast of Susan Sanders had to be replaced and because she was having a dullness with her acting Alice jumped right in, not knowing what it exactly meant. For all her life she has been a straight lesbian, meaning she never hid who she was and what she was going for. Being a professional for quite a lot of years also meant experience, even in the sex scene department. But things were different now, different from all the other times when she had to jump somebody on screen, whether it was a man or woman. This time now, and only having met for a brief moment when rehearsing, Alice felt a strong pull from Dana. There was no room for her to explain it, it was just something that you long for, like water in the desert, air under water or food during a diet. Life deciding things. And here she was, standing by the bed with her robe on, seeing the beauty lying in bed already, imagining that she was nude, which she had to be, according to the covers pulled up tightly under her chin. A small smile crept Alice’s lips, trying to reassure herself that she has just get down to business and nothing more.