After leaving the restaurant Alice turned to Dana. “Are you ready to call it an evening? If not I know of something else we can do.” Dana smiled thinking how nice this evening was turning out and really not wanting it to end. “Alice I have all the time in the world, plus I can sleep in, in the morning what else do I have to do.” Alice smiled back at Dana taking her hands in hers as she walked backwards toward the car. “OK then, I know of this live theatre down the street called Power House Theatre, they been putting on a show called Skit-o-Phrenia everyone at the magazine says it’s great. So Miss Dana are you up for some live comedy.” Dana couldn’t help it Alice left herself wide open with that line. “Al every minute I’m with you is live comedy. But let’s go see the show anyway.”

As Dana and Alice were exiting the theatre Dana turned to Alice. “Al thank you for tonight. I haven’t laughed this much in a long time. You’ve always known how to cheer me up.” Then Dana did something that surprised both herself and Alice. She reached over and gave Alice a small kiss on her cheek. Alice blushed slightly at Dana’s gratitude. “Uh, you’re welcome.” Dana just smiled at her friend’s shyness; it always stuck her funny how Alice was the clown in the group, always quick with the wit, but when you really got to know her she was quite shy, and really the opposite of how she came across to most. “Al lets go home.”

The next days Alice and Dana found themselves spending a lot of time with each other. Either Alice or Dana would call the other for small walks everyday so Dana could start building up her endurance with walking again. Plus Alice took Dana to more of the restaurants on the beaches as she researched her next article. After about the eighth restaurant Dana joked with Alice about how she wish she had her job.

7AM ALICE’S APARTMENT

Alice thought she was asleep, but then she thought no I can’t be asleep if I’m thinking about being asleep. And then she heard the reason why she probably was awake somebody was in her apartment. OK thought Alice what do I have for a weapon, all she could come up with was a baseball bat she had under her bed that she had gotten at a LA Dodgers game. Just as she was sliding to the other side of the bed so she could reach under her bed to get the bat. Dana came bounding into her room. “Alice get up, I’ve got breakfast and great news.” Now Alice was mad. “Dana its 7 ***** A M in the morning. I thought you were a burglar, what if I had a gun and had shot you.” Dana just smiled she was too happy to worry about Alice being mad. “Al I use to stay here a lot remember. I know you hate guns, and I know all you have in this bedroom is that bat under your bed, so I knew you would recognize me before you had time to take me out with a bat.” Then Dana started to pull Alice out of bed whining. “Come on Al, get up go shower, when you’re done I’ll have breakfast. I brought eggs, cheese, and mushrooms to make omelets.” Alice started to get up. “You know Dana I hate mornings, but since you offering omelets I guess this one might become passable. Hey, you let yourself into my apartment.” Dana just shrugged her shoulders. “So you let yourself into mine the other day.”