“Sweetie, it was nothing!  There was just this girl at Milk the other night who Alice was convinced was checking her out when it was obvious the girl was checking me out!  When I made it apparent I wasn’t interested, the girl turned to sloppy seconds.”  Bette said with her best puppy dog eyes as Tina continued to stare her down.

“WHAT?  SLOPPY SECONDS???  Porter, you are so lucky you’re bigger than I am.  Otherwise I’d kick your ass.”  Alice grumbled and slouched down into her chair as the group laughed. 

Giggling herself, Tina turned back to Bette with a smile.

“It’s okay Baby, I trust you.  I just enjoy watching you squirm.”  Tina said, exchanging looks of understanding with Carmen. 

Before Carmen had come along, Shane had wielded a similar reputation to that of Bette during her player days.  As Shane and Carmen’s relationship had stumbled through it’s beginning stages, Carmen had found a confidant in Tina as the blonde helped the younger woman through her insecurities regarding Shane’s past experience.  With Tina’s help, Carmen was patient and gave Shane the space and time she needed until Shane’s impressive walls of defense slowly began to crumble and the two became, as Alice liked to refer to them as, the mini Tibette. 

“Hey Alice, why don’t you invite Dana to breakfast one day?  She probably doesn’t really know anyone here in L.A. yet so maybe it would be a good way for her to get out and see the area.”  Jenny asked. 

Seeing the wisdom in her idea, Alice sat up straight and smiled at the other writer.

“That’s a really good idea Jenny, thanks!  I’ll give Dana a call and hopefully she’ll be interested.  Maybe then all of you will see that there’s nothing going on between Dana Fairbanks and myself.”  Alice said to the group.

“I don’t know about that last part, but Alice is right.  That’s a great idea Jenny!  At least then we’ll get to see Ms. Fairbanks for ourselves instead of Alice hogging her all to herself.”  Shane said, raising just one eyebrow at Alice.

“You think you’re so cool just because you can raise one eyebrow.  I was there when you spent an hour in front of the mirror moving your eyebrow up and down with your finger until you could do it on your own fucker.”  Alice sneered at Shane.