“Ok, first off, circumbendibus? That does not sound like a real word, you so made that up. And secondly, you are completely wrong.” Alice rolled her eyes

“Oh yeah, you guys have stellar communication skills! Sorry, I forgot.”

“Hey!” She slapped Alice’s arm.

*Tina’s blackberry beeped* She read the message.

“Its from Bette.”

“What? What does it say? Give it up Kennard!”

“It says she brought Angelica to a fair this morning, that she’s exhausted and has a bit of a temperature so instead of giving her to Angus she’s going to stay home and just put her to bed. Then she asked did I want dinner when I come over to get her later? Right, so I guess were going to ignore what happened!” Tina felt a small wave of relief wash over her.

“What, in your world of stellar communication? I doubt it! Maybe she wants you to come over to explain what happened. You better say yes.”

“I really need to go into work this afternoon” Alice could hear the hesitation in her voice

“Work, shmork! Priorities, go to work now, boss everyone around, yell at them for spending too much money on special effects, hide the dead body of the prostitute your leading actor slept with last night, you can be in Bette’s by seven” Tina laughed, rolling her eyes

“Wow Alice, you have my job description down to a tee. That’s actually very similar to what was written on the job description when I applied.”

“Shut up sarcky!” Alice grabbed Tina’s blackberry, began typing a reply, as she pushed Tina towards the door.

“I wasn’t meant to pick Angie up until ten tonight”

“Well that’s exactly why you have to go now!” Alice hit send. “Dinner at seven. Is it ok that I put love your one true soul-mate forever, kiss, at the end?”

“What!!!”

“What? Its how I sign all my texts to Bette” Tina grabbed the phone from Alice, read the message and laughed in relief.

“Shut up! You know, it wouldn’t even surprise me!”

“Your welcome. See you tomorrow. And just so you know, if you decided to steal one of those wire microphone things off the set today, to maybe tape the whole conversation tonight so I could listen to it, I really wont object. So I can analyse it for your benefit of course. Purely selfless reasons” Alice put her hands in the air and gave Tina the most sincere look she could muster. Tina laughed.