“Wow – break up?” Bette asked, as confused as the others. “Since when do you guys have something to break up?”

“Ah – Porter,” Alice sighed, wriggling herself between Bette and Shane. “You have no idea what a combination of persuasive words and … mind-blowing actions can do.” Alice wiggled her eyebrows suggestively.

Dana, red as a tomato, sat down between Carmen and Tina.

“I really wish she would start acting normal,” she whispered. “I mean – I knew she was like this, but that it was this bad…”

“It means it’s happy,” Bette explained, as if she was talking about some experiment.

“Yep! I am one happy bunny!” Alice shrieked, the emphasis on ‘happy’.

“All that’s missing are the long ears,” Dana muttered under her breath. She turned to her girlfriend and said: “Now, if you could be normal for a while, that’d be great.”

“But Dana,” Alice pouted. “I am happy! And isn’t my song totally great? Like, awesome? As in, fabulous?”

“Yes, Al,” they all answered simultaneously. They just wanted Alice, who was attracting a lot of attention, to calm down a bit.

“Uhm… I’m sorry to ask this, but what happened to Lara?” Carmen asked warily.

Dana’s face went sour. “She got lost.”

“What do you mean?” Tina asked.

“She got lost and accidentally ended up in Helena Peabody’s bed.”

“What? I thought Helena was into Alice?” It was out of Tina’s mouth before she had realised that she and Bette were the only ones who knew about this.

“What?” Carmen, Shane, Dana and Alice asked.

“What the hell are you talking about?” Shane questioned, eyebrows frowned.

“Well… I… I thought…” Tina stuttered, feeling her cheeks go red.

“Helena Peabody has the total hots for Alice Pieszecki,” Bette helped her girlfriend out. “Tina had forgotten you guys didn’t know that.”

“She has?” Alice asked in amazement. “Helena Peabody? Fancying me?”

“What, are you interested?” Dana snapped. “You have a girlfriend, remember?”

“Easy, Dana,” Alice said, shaking her head. “It’s just hard to believe. I mean, she can get so many girls with just a snap of her finger and she wants me? And why would she sleep with Lara then?”

“Well, that’s obvious,” Shane piped in.

“How?” Dana asked. “It doesn’t make sense to me.”