DANA’S CONDOMINIUM

When Dana enter her home first thing she did was yell out to Alice “Four hours, are you happy?” When she didn’t hear a response from Alice, she thought maybe she was sleeping. Dana then proceeded to go up the stairs to check on her. When she entered Alice’s bedroom, though the bed was still unmade, Alice wasn’t in it. She looked in both bathrooms thinking maybe she was in one of them. But once again there was no sign of Alice. Dana quickly ran into the kitchen, thinking maybe she had just missed her when she came in. She didn’t think Alice was mad at her so she couldn’t imagine why she wouldn’t say something letting her know where she was, but no matter where she looked there was no Alice. She picked up her cell phone to see if she could get Alice on her cell phone, but after dialing Alice’s number she could hear it ringing in Alice’s room. Now she was panicked, she didn’t know where Alice was. She could feel her chest tightening again, and once again she felt herself having problems breathing.

Just as Dana was starting to call all her friends to see if they knew where Alice was. Dana’s front door opened with Alice and Shane walking in caring a box of books and other office supplies from Alice’s desk. Dana was furious, “Where the ***** have you been. I can’t believe you didn’t call me.” Alice looked at Dana not understanding all the rage she was seeing. “Dana, I left several messages on your cell phone telling you what I was doing.” Dana looked down at her phone noticing for the first time the mailbox in the corner of the screen. She also remembered she had turned off her ringer the night before, not wanting anything to wake Alice. Still she couldn’t control her anger. “You shouldn’t have left, unless you knew for sure I knew where you were.”

Alice trying to stay calm with Dana, knowing she wasn’t thinking straight walked toward her trying to place her hand on her arm. “Dana, you’re not my mom I can go out any time I want to, you need to calm down.” Dana pulled away from Alice not wanting her to touch her at that moment. “I’m not trying to be your ***** mom, you don’t understand. How am I to know you’re OK, what if something happen to you.” Alice was still trying to get through to Dana “I’m OK, nothing happen Dana , I really can take care of myself.” Dana wouldn’t hear any of this. “I’m sure that what you thought that night, and look what happen. You did a great job taking care of yourself while that man was kicking the ***** out of you.” Alice had no clue how to calm Dana down. “Babe listen to me, I’m OK nothing is going to happen to me.” Dana still refused to listen. “You ***** don’t know that. Alice I’m not going to watch you almost die again. You don’t know, you don’t know what it like to see the most important person in your life almost die. Alice he could have killed you, and all I could do was ***** watch. Oh and let’s not forget about my helpful begging and crying. Why did you have to talk to them? They could have killed you, and all I could do was cry and beg.”