7:00 THAT NIGHT

Alice was sitting on the couch when everyone arrived. She told Dana she needed to start walking around, and the four walls in her bedroom were staring to feel like they were closing in on her, she needed to get out of that bedroom, and she sure wasn’t eating dinner in there.

Dana finely agreed as long as Alice didn’t try to do anything when everyone got there, she was to visit but no trying to play hostess at all.

When Shane and Tina walked in it was just like when anyone say Alice for the first time. Alice shrugged her shoulder and told them. “I know, I know like Bette said. I look like beaten *****.” Tina looked over at Bette wondering why Bette would say such a thing. Bette just turned to her. “Long story, and of course our friend loves to take it out of context.”

When Shane walked over to give Alice a hug, Alice clung on to her thankful for her presence. She started crying feeling to a degree that had it not been for Shane, she might not be here today. “Shane, I don’t know how to thank you, if you hadn’t come back, I don’t know what would have happen?” Shane for her part didn’t feel like she did anything special, she just happened to be at the right place at the right time. Plus she knew that anyone in this room would have done the same thing for each other. “Al, you don’t need to thank me, I just glad you’re OK, and you would have done the same. I just happen to come up at the right time. I just wished I could have been there a few minutes earlier.” Alice wiped her eyes before she spoke to Shane. “I’m just glad you came back.”

As the group visited, they all seemed happy in each other company. They joked and laughed about how they all met, and even though their family was starting to expand, as they added new friends, and lovers. These five women felt very much a nuclear family and they were grateful that the five were still intact, knowing how close they had come to losing one of their own.

TBC

Guys, it is about to get rough for our gals. Blame, denial, emotional unstableness, and shame. All the lovely emotions that peak their heads out when a person goes through an emotional trauma.

My vacation is almost over so the updates may not be as quick. This story is a little harder to write, because of the emotions involved. Even though the trauma happened to Alice, right now I’m choosing to focus on Dana, because having been in a situation in my younger days, when I loved someone deeply, who had a lot of trauma in her life, I can still remember how her pain was all consuming for me, and more then I could handle, so that is the way I see Dana handling it in this story. Thanks for reading. Deb