“Alice it’s not about competing…” Bette said. “Okay, I know where you’re coming from… she’s only been with you for a while and you think that Shane and Carmen will always have something there… but she loves you right?” Bette asked.

“Yeah… I guess so…” said Alice looking and playing with her fingers.

“Well then that’s it… that’s the most important thing Alice that you know, you have her love…” Bette finished.

Alice sighs. “But… she’s fucking married?! I mean they have a kid together for crying out loud… I don’t want to be the source of destruction to their family…” Alice stated.

“Alice… her marriage with Carmen was long gone before you’ve ever said a single word to her…” Helena interrupted.

“You wanna continue on that…” asked Alice.

“Well okay… you see. Shane has been with Carmen for approximately ten years, yeah. She got married to her seven years ago. Had a child almost five years ago. Before Shane met Carmen… both of them were notoriously known with their promiscuous self, partying, drugs and unlimited alcohol intake. Carmen is the newly uprising model and Shane the buzzing new hot hairstylist in New York. When Shane met Carmen, she thought… yeah, it’s just one of her conquest. But soon both of them were madly in love with each other. I mean Shane would just do anything for this girl…” Helena looked around the table. The girls was tuned in with she has to say. “Anyway… we all thought they’re never going to last… I mean if you were in the New York scene, you’d know about Shane and Carmen. So both of them last longer that we’d all thought it would be… and then soon after that, they were a couple. So, probably during the end of the second year of their relationship… Shane just made her mind up. No more drugs, hard partying, no more random girls to fuck to make Carmen jealous… none of that. She stopped and Carmen… well… she did… for a while… and well they had their ups and downs in the relationship like any normal relationship would. At the end Shane proposed, Carmen accepted. Shane has changed and Carmen hasn’t. Shane kind of knew but you know… I guess she was in denial or something… Shane confronted her about it. Carmen said you know, yeah once in a while… but she said to Shane that she would never cheat on her. Ever. And so Shane kept her word on that… until she found Carmen in their bed with some girl, some model. The first time, Shane could still manage it, forgave her… but then the second and third… not so much. So she kept her self really busy with her work… flying to London this week and to Singapore the next… I guess she was just ignoring the pain she has in her heart. So Carmen falls back to her old habit behind Shane’s back… even after lily was born.” Helena said.

She looked around the table who still wanted to know more. “And uhm… you know Shane would hear stories about Carmen you know… being with some else but she’d just ignore it… and uhm remember then when Shane had to go back to London??” Helena asked the girls.

“Yeah…” they said.

“Well that was because Carmen was out partying all night and left lily alone by her self… Shane had to fly back because you know… It’s Lily, and Shane would do just about anything for that child.” Helena finished.

“But if Shane knew that her wife is a coke sniffin’ whore… why didn’t she just leave her?!?” Alice asked in anger.

“Because Carmen and Lily are all that she has… I mean if you’d knew Shane ten years ago… she’s like this tanked up person, you know… not letting her feelings wall crushed down… and somehow Carmen managed to bring that wall down… and I guess Shane doesn’t want that part of her gone or not ready to let her go… but now she has you Alice… I mean even when she’s with her work there’s still just girls throwing her self at her and she doesn’t even look at them. But she saw something in you… you already have her Alice… I think she just needs your help moving on…” Helena looked at Alice.

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