Uh oh, busted. Alice started to panic again as she felt the heat rising to her face and butterflies whiz around in her stomach, she needed to exit as fast as possible and maybe even get a strong alcoholic beverage regardless if it was a non conservative time of day to drink. She got Dana’s attention and pointed at her gold bling watch, herself, then at the mini and waved Dana goodbye practically jogging to the blue monster she called her auto. Dana looked on after her friend concerned that she hadn’t been told the whole truth about what was really bothering Alice so much and vowed to call her later after practice.

Once inside the car, Alice cursed herself, her luck and then the hateful lesbian karma Gods for inflicting this upon her. Of course she knew it wasn’t really anyone’s fault, you can’t choose who you fall for, can you? Wait no, Alice wasn’t falling for Dana this was simply a crush. Some teenage schoolgirl crush. She wandered if she should discuss this with Yoda, it was getting pretty big and spiralling out of control… then again Alice was never very good at opening up and letting down her defences she had tried so hard to build up over the years. What if Shane laughed at her or even worse told everyone including Dana so she became the laughing stock of the group, The Planet, West Hollywood, LA!  Alice knew she was being crazy and started the mini up rapidly reversing it out of the car park and back to her apartment leaving screeching black tire tracks on the road and a huge cloud of emissions from her exhaust.

Alice threw her keys down on her desk and collapsed onto her comfy sofa. It engulfed the slim writer easily as she let out another groan into one of the cushions. She hadn’t realised she had fallen asleep until her cell phone decided to spasm again on the coffee table whilst bellowing out the theme to Footloose. In her startle she had jumped and tried to get up at the same time resulting in her ending up on the ground in a heaped mess. “For fuck’s sake can I get a break today, please!” the cosy apartment echoed with her exasperated shout. Picking herself up and making a mental note to clean under the couch soon because…damn, those dust bunnies were freakin’ huge, Alice answered in a less than enthused tone to the shock of the caller. “This better be good,” she simply stated.

“Well hello to you too, do you talk to all the ladies like this or is it just me who has the privilege?” Dana chuckled into the phone. Alice let go of the phone and listened to the sound it made as it hit the rug below.