While Alice was slowly but surely beginning to deal with what had
caused her crazed behavior during the break up with Dana, she still
felt reluctant to go to the old places she had once considered to be
second homes. The Planet, Milk, and even her traditional bar to wallow
in, The Palms. These were all places she went to with Dana and the last
thing Alice wanted was to be bombarded with memories of what she was
trying so hard to detach herself from.

It was simply easier to not be around such surroundings. That’s why she
was so excited to accompany Jenny to Pinky’s Cabaret which, located in
Malibu, wasn’t at all close to her usual West Hollywood hangouts and
had no memories to haunt her with.

They occupied their time first by doing a little drinking and then some
dancing, exiting the dance floor only when Alice’s cell phone let loose
the tell tale ringtone of All The Things She Said by Tatu, something
that had been assigned to Helena ever since that late night TV watching
experience they shared together. The British woman had gotten tied up
with meetings at The Foundation and was running a little late as a
result.

That left Alice and Jenny to their own devices when it came to
entertaining themselves and Helena in something of the dark when she
finally made her appearance in the club.

Throughout her life, Helena hated nothing more than not knowing simply
because it was a perpetual game that Peggy liked to play with her. She
delighted in asking Helena questions she was certain that her daughter
would have no knowledge of the correct answers then proceed to mock her
for not knowing. And while she knew that was the very last thing that
Alice and Jenny intended when she arrived and they were absorbed in
something they called their soap opera, leaving her perplexed and
confused in the process, it was what she found herself reminded of
nevertheless.

Fortunately for Helena both Alice and Jenny were as far from Peggy
Peabody as people could possibly get in personality and they both saw
this effect and quickly tried to explain the soap opera to her. Though
they first had to explain why exactly DJ Sera was brilliant when she
was currently spinning a song which was dedicated to nothing but how
horny the singer of it was.


“So horny. I’m horny, horny, horny
tonight! I searched from town to town, but I can’t find my bird, oh no.
I got so desperate, that I sent a rocket to the moon.”