Alice could always sense when something was bothering Dana and by the look of things, she knew it was something major. She started to breathe more heavily-trying to calm herself down before Dana realized. She knew what was coming-she’d felt it for weeks— waiting for the ball to drop, for her dream relationship with Dana to be shattered.

How often is it that you fall in love with your best friend and they actually fall in love with you?

Or so she thought. Was she just fooling herself this entire time, maybe Dana wasn’t in love with her? Maybe it was lust, pure lust and sexual passion that Dana felt. But for her it was different, it was love.pure true love. She felt passion-passionate passion, passion filled with love, not just ***** or lust. Her heart literally skipped beats when Dana walked into a room, her body tingled and the little hairs on the back of her neck stood up every time they kissed. It was cheesy and no one knew this (even though it was probably obvious), but every time they kissed her foot slowly lifted off the ground bent slightly at the kneeyup just like in those old black and white movies. Her smile slowly faded from her lips and her eyes fell from looking at Dana’s face. She couldn’t help herself and the tears started rolling down her eyes. She dropped down on the couch, unable to hold herself up anymore— emotions taking over.

Dana knew that Alice knew, “I’m sorry baby, I’m so sorry. You know I love you Alice. You’re everything to me and it’s not you, it’s me. It’s just that I..” “Don’t give me that bullshit ***** Dana, don’t tell me it’s not my fault-II pushed you away and you ran-ran straight to her,” Alice yelled through tears. “You’ve been seeing her for weeks haven’t you?! You’ve been seeing her behind my back thinking I didn’t know. Well— I did, I knew you were hiding something..but I never thought” tears coming full force as she struggled to get the words out, “why have I been so stupid, to think that you’d pick me over her.” “No baby—-Oh God—-Alice I’m sorry, I don’t know what I’m doing, it’s just that.” Dana said trailing off, not wanting to say something she’d regret. “I’ve given you your space, I’ve stopped being so needy and clingy. I let the god dam mouse breathe, what do you want from me?!” “I don’t know how to explain it, I don’t know what to say— I just can’t.” Why did this have to be so hard, she was hurting the person she cared about most in the world and talked to about everything, yet this time she couldn’t find the words. “It’s okay Dana, don’t worry about me, obviously you stopped doing that a long time ago,” Alice yelled through her tear streaked face as she leapt off the couch and ran out of the condo. God, what had she done? How could she have done this?! Was what she was doing right?! Would she regret everything that she was doing, just——just so she could gain more ‘experience’?! She thought she was prepared for this but it was more difficult than she’d ever expected.