“Carmen, please?” Shane started. “Let’s not do this.”

“No, Shane. Look at me. What the hell are we doing?”

“Umm, I know what you’re not doing…you’re not dancing, so, hey Shane, come on,” Lacey grabbed Shane’s hand and began pulling her to the dance floor.

“What the fuck do you think you’re doing?” Carmen finally looked at Lacey and asked, her blood already boiled from her discussion with Shane.

It was Shane’s turn to pull her arm away from Lacey this time. “Lacey, now’s not a good time okay? Carmen, please, let’s just have a nice evening and we’ll talk about this in the morning.”

“Shane, it’s Madonna! We always used to dance to Madonna, you remember?” Lacey pleaded.

Carmen let out a sarcastic laugh. “So, she must be one of your ‘temporary distractions,’ right, Shane?”

Lacey scoffed as Shane slid between her and Carmen. She grabbed ahold of Carmen’s shoulders with her back to Lacey and was about to say something when Lacey beat her to it.

“You need to control your little cha-cha, Shane!”

“Excuse me?!” Carmen’s voice was getting louder.

“Lacey, shut the fuck up please.” Shane said quickly. She turned back to Carmen.

“Oh, uh-uh, uh-uh, you know what you stupid dyke-bimbo? FUCK YOU!” Carmen screamed and made a move towards Lacey. The club patrons were now looking in the direction of the squabble and a few stopped dancing and stepped closer to investigate the scene.

Shane grabbed Carmen’s arms again and held onto her tight. “Calm down, Carmen. What’s the matter with you?” Shane shook her slightly to rouse her out of her death stare at Lacey. She began to push Carmen off the floor and back towards their VIP section.

“Shit,” Alice said as she watched the heated exchange from where she and Tayo were dancing. She grabbed Tayo’s hand and made their way through the crowd towards Shane and Carmen.

“Fuck me?” Lacey repeated incredulously, “No thanks, Shane already took care of that for me, sweetheart.”

“You fucking cunt!” Carmen said as she lunged at Lacey again, this time breaking Shane’s grip. Alice ran over just in time to catch Carmen by the waist as she took a swing at Lacey.

Although Carmen’s swipe barely missed her chin, Lacey could feel the burst of air it created and pushed both Alice and Carmen with all of her strength. Both women went sprawling down to the ground.