Dana had been a living like a zombie for three days. Alternating between dry tears and lifeless motions. She was only eating enough to keep her body functioning and she had taken to training whenever she could. It kept her mind on something other than Alice and Tonya. After that first night, Tonya had let her come back to sleep in the bed and every time her fianc rolled over to put an arm possessively around her, she cringed.  But Dana stayed where she was. By staying with Tonya it was almost like she was betraying Alice because she really did have feelings for her, but could she go the other direction and feel guilty for leaving Tonya? It was a question that had beat the ***** out of Dana’s brain for days now.


It was morning again, so she rolled over and searched for the clean shorts and shirt. She hadn’t seen Alice since that night, because of Tonya’s ultimatum and it was making her sick. Before all this started she had seen Alice every day and she hadn’t realized how much she relied on being around her. Now that the door was opened for Alice to be possibly more than a friend, she was painfully aware of her absence. It was like starting to eat a piece of cake and then only getting a taste of the first bite. She found herself being more impatient and snapping at everyone. It was even affecting the quality of her game, which was making her coach nervous because of the all-important tournament coming up. There was one good thing, though. Tonya wasn’t around as much. She had been keeping herself very busy with making Dana, and through Dana herself, more money.
Dana pulled on her running shoes, collected her bag and went down to her car. She got in and zoomed away from a still sleeping Tonya, ready for a morning of hard work.

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Alice hadn’t been sleeping well, which gave her more time to finish and turn in her condiments story. After that was done she took a few days off to loaf with Tina. They sat around watching really bad 80′s movies and cleaned. It turned out that they both loved to clean when they had something on their minds. Women were the hardest things to have on the brain sometimes, and they both had that problembad. Alice was worried that she hadn’t seen or heard from Dana in several days. She wasn’t going to be the one to call considering what had happened, but after days of fixating on it she was ready to clear the air. In fact, she needed to talk this out. How was she going to do that when it had appeared that she had been cut off from Dana’s life? She felt confused and alone in the middle of a city of millions. Tina was no help even though she listened with a sympathetic ear to Alice’s repeated rehashing of the issue. They were cleaning the kitchen after a rather large pot of pasta sauce exploded when Alice started in yet again.