Alice’s Mini

The radio was on in the mini loudly, very loudly, and Alice was putting in a great performance of yelling and dancing around like a lunatic to The Go Gos. Although she did have to admit that steering and dancing was the ultimate form of multi tasking and not that easy on the busy roads of West Hollywood.  She was really getting into the chorus of ‘Hey Mickey’ when her cell phone started flapping around on the passenger seat like it was having some sort of seizure. Apparently Alice had learnt no lesson yesterday after almost being flattened by an oncoming truck after reaching for her phone and taking her eyes off the road for quite a few seconds to grab it. Again she lent over and snatched the shaking device to see Shane’s name on the caller ID.

“Hey Yoda, what’s up?”

“Alice where the fuck are you, everyone’s already here…is that The Go Gos you’re listening to?” Shane smirked at her friend’s taste in music, or rather lack of taste in her opinion.

“Ok firstly, hold your horses I’m on my way, I’ll be there in like 3 minutes, and secondly do you have a problem with awesome 80’s music Shane?”

Shane laughed at the blonde’s defensive morning attitude. “No not at all Alice, would just be nice to hear you listening to something of our time for once, ever heard of a little genre called rock?”

“Fuck you Shane, The Go Gos rule”, retorted Alice.

“Whatever you say Al, just don’t be long.”

“Jeez I said I’ll be there soon, why the rush anyway?”

“Bette and Tina said they have something to announce so they wanted everyone here for nine sharp, it’s now five past just so you know”

“Ok ok, I’m coming see ya soon…wait Shane, is Dana there?”

“Yeah you wanna talk to her?”

“No!” Alice replied a little too quickly. Trying to cover up her faux pas she tried to act subtle and blasé on the Dana subject. “Um just wandered if she was gonna make it on time, you know, training and stuff…”

“Oooook…well she’s here with the rest of us”

“Ok good to know” The blonde said cheerily and rather high pitched as she was slightly starting to panic at the thought of having to look Dana in the face after her heated dream this morning.

“Um, ok, Bye Shane”

Again Shane smirked at the writer’s antics and behaviour today.“Bye Al”

 Alice hung up and tossed her phone into her handbag. Fuck. How was she going to act normal around the athletic brunette now? They had always shared a close relationship, of the friendship kind mind you, but Alice always felt that out of the whole family she could talk to Dana about anything and not be judged. Dana didn’t care about Alice’s past or the fact that Alice’s mother, Lenore, was beyond bizarre at times, she loved Alice for who she was now and that was something Alice had never felt. Safe and loved. It was true that Dana loved her, it didn’t matter if it was just as a friend and nothing more, anything the blonde could get from the athlete she would take.

Alice sighed and pulled into a parking space at The Planet inches away from denting the blue Saab owned by her friend and ex lover, Bette. Holy shit, how mad would Bette have been to come out and find a massive dent in her prized possession, Alice giggled at the mental image of Bette’s face turning bright red and steam shooting out of her ears when her comical thoughts were interrupted by a familiar Subaru she spotted about ten feet away. “Dammit focus Alice, come on Pieszecki, keep your shit together this morning, nobody knows about this Dana stuff but you”, or so she thought…

Grabbing her purse, she opened the door and began the ‘green mile’ walk to the doors of The Planet not knowing what to expect or what the fuck she was going to do.