“Yeah, you do that.” Gabby said shutting the door.

            “*****” Dana said to the door as it was shut in her face.            

            Watching the door be shut in her face, Dana got teary eyed. Moments like these made her hate herself for not telling Alice her true feelings.

            Dana had been in love with her best friend since the moment that they met. But Alice was ‘straight’ when they meet. Or at least that’s what she thought. It was not until a couple of months later when Alice started to date this girl, Lucy, that Dana even realized that she was Bi. Before then Dana told herself, ‘she is your best straight friend, and you will not try anything.’ Dana believed she had no chance with Alice. Even after she found out about Alice‘s bisexuality, Dana began to tell herself that she would never have a chance with her.  That Alice would not want a closest person to be her girlfriend. Alice was out and proud, she did not need Dana dragging her down.

             So Dana hid her feelings for Alice. That was something she was good at. Dana believed she was good at two things in her life. Playing tennis and hiding things when she really need to. If she did not try to hid things people could read her like a book. This was strange if you thought about it. She could hid her feelings for her best friend for almost six years, she could hid that she was ***** for almost all her life, but if she had a bad day, well she could not hid them. Everyone knew she had a bad day.

            Dana had wanted to tell Alice that she loved her more then a best friend, but knew that Alice would never feel the same way. So Dana told herself that she should find the next best. Although there really was not the next best. Lara came close, but in Dana’s heart she was not close enough. But Dana was good at settling. She settled a lot in her life.

            The tennis player was not willing to risk losing her best friend, just so that she could be with her (that is if Alice would ever want to be with her). So Dana settled with Lara. She was safe, comfortable, nice, pleasant, but was not Alice.

            It was not even until Dana told the journalist about her plan to ask Lara to move in with her, that Dana felt that she might have a chance with her. But there she was standing at Al’s door with Gabby Devaux, and not Alice. She was staring into the eyes of the person she hated the most.

            Dana hated Gabby, through and through. Gabby treated Alice like ***** was mean, nasty, and the list could go on. But the reason she hated her most was because Gabby continued to break Alice‘s heart time and time again. And Dana always was there to pick her up again and again. It was those times that Alice could swear off Gabby Devaux forever. And Dana would swear that she would tell Alice how she felt. Tell Alice that she loved her, was falling in love with her. That Dana would never treat her how Gabby treated her, that Dana was the one for her. But just like Alice continued to go back to Gabby. Dana continued to hide her feelings. 

TBC