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Crossroads- Ch. 15
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Alice closed her eyes in rapture. "This mahi-mahi rocks!"
Shane laughed. "You’d better watch it, Al…now that you and Lara are an item, you might just outgrow your clothes."
Alice opened her eyes in shock. "I hadn’t thought of that. Geez, it takes a lot of work to maintain a finely tuned body like mine…..I guess I’ll have to spend some time kicking your ass on the halfpipe at Wax."
"Get out! I can just see you now, all knee pads and helmet…your skateboard would have training wheels!" Shane had a mental image of Alice, with bangs poking out from under a helmet at all angles complemented with bulky body padding; she couldn’t repress a husky chuckle at the visual. "By the way", she continued, "you really could use a haircut."
"Yeah, the freak I go to sort of ditched everyone for awhile, but I hear she’s back. Maybe I can get in tomorrow." Alice took a bite of mango and black bean salsa. "Man, this is really good."
Jenny looked towards the double doors leading to the back. "Wonder how things are going in the kitchen?"
Shane nodded, "Yeah, I wonder how hard it is to cook one-handed."
Alice looked around the dining room. "The crowd is beginning to thin out a bit. Maybe Lara can join us for dessert. I’ll go check." She scooted back from the table, and headed for the kitchen.
Once behind the swinging doors, she looked around. She smiled when she saw the lean figure bent over in concentration at the oven. She took a moment to watch, as Lara turned after extracting a small pan. With a slight flick of her wrist, the golden roasted chicken breast was deposited from pan to plate, atop a bed of warmed spinach. Alice walked over to the cook station. "I was wondering, if I could pay my compliments to the chef?"
Lara looked up, an instant smile gracing her face at Alice’s voice. "Hey!" She handed over the dish to the server and looked at her watch. "God, I can’t believe it’s already 8:45! I’m so sorry…..how long have you been here?" She walked around the counter and gave Alice a light kiss.
"Long enough to know that I love your new menu! Shane and Jenny and I are practically working our way through the whole thing, item by item!"
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The beginning of this chapter compensated the slight drop of cuteness level from the last one. Damn Teri for interrupting. :P I really hope Alice will be able to figure out what’s really going on with Lara. It’s going to be a difficult, ’cause Lara ain’t sharing a lot of information with her. :( We all know how inquisitive Alice can be…I’m hoping for that characteristic to pull through. This chapter got me really worried about Lara. She’s outdoing herself. And no, I never heard of the Pipettes. I just listend to some songs. It kind of reminded me of the Grease-soundtrack (and yes I do have that one in my collection too). I think some songs could probably become one of my regulars. Ok, to add one odd music couples…Sara Bareilles and Gorillaz. But serioulsy, you schould check out the site last.fm…we are not the only ones with odd music combinations! :D
ooooooooooooh alice is all set to find out about lara now…interesting…post more soon!
if lara does not start talking to alice then she will lose her can’t wait to see what will happen next please post soon great update I love it
Wow, great update – I was pleasantly surprised to find it a little early! I love the interaction between Alice and Lara in this one – Lara wants so badly to be with Alice, but she can’t fully open up to her until she gets herself sorted out. Hopefully, she’ll let Alice help her deal with all her problems soon… of course, I’m happy to wait for that pay-off, since it adds such a great underlying tension to their relationship! I also thought the horrific nature of the dream she had was pretty realistic. Given everything that has happened between Lara and Alice, and the fact that Lara is still haunted by her grief and guilt over Dana, it makes perfect sense that she would have a nightmare like that. Can’t wait to see how all of this plays out – and, I’m sooo glad you decided to give us more than 15 chapters!
Sexcellent! So well done: now we’re privy to more of what is going on with the dream that is wigging Lara out and her reactions are starting to make more sense. But she’s got to articulate things to Alice, pronto. Maybe with the help of her therapist? So she can get herself healthy in mind and body. What a creepy thing for this poor woman to have bottled inside. But it also shows that Dana remains a key character not to be simply forgotten. I just wanted to yell to Alice at the end there “Go get her in the kitchen!” Alice is a champ with confronting that yes, something is wrong, yet she remains steadfastedly supportive by nudging Lara in the direction of opening up sooner than later. And it’s nice that she seems to do so without weirding out, thinking it’s all her fault. I’m looking forward to finding more about potential underlying causes of Lara’s nasty dream, i.e., why this is taxing her to such an extent. This Lace relationship is so textured because any problems they have individually have the potential to be dealt with in the obvious respect, caring and attraction these two have for one another. Lara, don’t mess it up now, and for the love of The L Word, don’t run AWAY! I agree with bluemini, the tension you’ve got going on with these two is awesome. Makes for such excellent reading. Yay to more than 15 chapters, and yay for updates, please post as soon as you can and keep up your great work!
Just so you know. I love that you’ve made someone other than Alice the most neurotic one in the room (for the time being at least). Sleep deprivation and loss of body weight is definitely affecting Lara’s judgement –and not in a good way. On the other hand, her new menu sounds scrumptious!
Ahh, another good chapter. Recurring nightmares certainly do take their toll, at night as well as through waking hours. Let’s hope she can talk to Al about them, without it wigging either of the two of them out too much.