“Dane, you have that thing after school today.” Shane reminded her.

Dana had been letting her gaze stray up Alice’s legs and jumped at the sound of Shane’s voice. “Uh, yeah, I remember.” It amused Alice that she sounded slightly guilty. “We’ll have to get together next week. I’ll let you know. Shane I’ll be out in a few minutes, I should go shower.” Dana let the words fall quickly as she ran toward the locker rooms fearing the situation that she had just put herself into

Shane raised her eyebrow at Dana as she came out of the locker room with her bag slung casually over her shoulder. “Hey.”

Dana smiled. “Hey.” Dana repeated. “Where were you yesterday?”

Shane shrugged. “Saw a movie.”

Dan nodded. “Anything good?” Shane shrugged again and Dana smiled at the fact that Shane could get so much across without speaking. “Are you coming to Tim’s party this weekend?” Dana asked. Even though Craig liked her at all of the parties, most times he hung out wit his buddies and forgot that Dana existed.

“I don’t know, Dane. I was thinking about going to see Carmen. She’s DJ-ing at the Planet.” Shane looked over at Dana, deciding whether or not to bring up her next subject. “You should skip it too and come with me.”

Dana shrugged. “I don’t know.”

“Come on, Dana. Do you even like those parties?” Shane knew she didn’t. “You know Lara’s working there now. She’ll be there.” Shane threw the dangerous subject out there cautiously.

Dana whipped her head up to look at Shane, her eyes flashing. “I don’t think that’s such a good idea.” She said as she swallowed her emotion and bent her head back down.

“She misses you Dana.”

“Why would she?”

“You know why she misses you, Dana.”

Dana pondered this for a moment and then looked up to see Tina waving her over to Tim’s car and she looked at Shane. “Are you riding with us?” Shane shook her head. Dana nodded and then walked toward her blonde friend. Dana stopped a second later and turned to look at Shane one more time. “You should tell Lara to forget about me. All I did was ruin her life.”

Shane shook her head. “If anyone ruined her life, Dana, it was that ***** Helena.” Shane spat out her name knowing that Helena was the only person that brought out such an opinion from her.

Dana smiled sadly. “Everyone blames Helena for what happened, Shane, but you know what really happened. How can you still think that it was her fault?” Dana looked her oldest friend in the eyes. “I made my choice. And like I said Lara would do well to forget about me.” Dana turned and ran toward Tina. Shane shook her head after her friend