//Then you came around me, the walls just disappeared

Nothing to surround me and keep me from my fears

Im unprotected, see how Ive opened up

Youve made me trust//

A big smile found itself on Danas face. *Yeah,* she decided, *Alice
with a guitar, definitely a turn-on!* She laughed inwardly for a
moment, and then stopped. The words shed just heard finally began to
process in her mind and her heart.

// I’ve never felt like this before

I’m naked around you, does it show

You see right through me, and I can’t hide

I’m naked around you, and it feels so right//

Dana had always been good at hiding and avoiding things. When she lost
Ralph, she hid in the closet for years, not wanting to ever give
anyone the opportunity to hurt her again. When her insecurities
surfaced with Lara, she avoided dealing with them and broke up with
her. With Tonya, she simply hid in the shadow of her fiances
overpowering demeanor. But with Alice her Alice there were no walls,
no hiding. Alice knew the best things about her, and the worst things
too! Dana didnt feel like she had to protect herself from her best
friend because, over the years, Al had shown her so many reasons why
she should trust her. *****, Dana even trusted Al enough to wear a
strap-on for her!

//Trying to remember why I was afraid

To be myself and let the covers fall away

Guess I never had someone like you

To help me fit in my skin//

Dana was at her most vulnerable with Alice, at her barest and truest
form. And it felt right. *It feels right its just that simple, isnt
it?* Dana thought to herself, more as a statement than as a question.
She chuckled to herself softly, excited and scared at the same time at
what she was slowly, but surely, letting her heart feel again.

Making a quick decision in her mind, Dana checked the clock radio and
decided that shed better run her errands quickly so shed have enough
time before…

Dane Alice said groggily, beginning to stir awake from her sleep as
Dana got up off the bed. Dana kneeled by the bed and gave the
still-sleepy-blonde, with still-closed-eyes, a kiss on the cheek.

Its okay, babe you dont have to wake up yet. Dana whispered,
hoping that she hadnt completely woken her girlfriend. Go back to
sleep, Al Ive got some errands to run meet you at the Planet for
brunch? she suggested quietly. The only answer she got was a moan as
Alice turned back around, facing away from the sunlit blinds, and
burrowing under an array of pink pillows and sheets, completely content
to sleep the morning away. Dana got up and started to get ready,
satisfied that Alice would know where to find her later. As she walked
into the bathroom, Dana took one last glance at her sleeping girlfriend.

*So ***** cute.*

TBC