“Um, two.”

“Ok, our friend Alice will be by around one to pick Bex up,” Lara said taking Bex out of her chair, “she’s blond and has kind of a nasally voice.”

“Ok that’s cool. I’m leaving Danni with my mom.”

“Ok, we’ll see you later,” Lara said walking to her room.

“Nice to meet you,” I said and walked behind Lara and we started to get ready for the day.

Later that day.

“I’m here already, what, yeah, um, I, uh. I remember you have a meeting. Yes. I’ll be there just as your meeting ends. Jesus Dana, I’m at Lara’s already. I’m knocking on the door,” Alice said, knocking, “yeah, ok, bye. Ugh, freak out much.”

“Oh, you must be Alice,” Tasha said as she opened the door.

“I, uh, yes Alice Pieszecki,” Alice said holding her arm out.

“Tasha Williams.”

“Oh wow, got quite a grip there. Gonna need to use my hand later,” she said and Tasha finally lets go.

“Ha, sorry, um please come in. I’ve got Bex ready, and here’s the car seat.”

“Oh wow, that’s a lot of stuff,” Alice said picking a sleeping Bex up.

“I’ll help you out,” Tasha said picking up the car seat. They ride the elevator down with an awkward silence. Alice, for the first time in her life, not knowing what to say. Tasha was also at a loss for what to say. They had both taken a fancy with each other and both were too uncharacteristically shy to say a word. They got off the elevator and Alice led Tasha to her car.

“I’m right here,” Alice said hitting the unlock button.

“Damn, that’s a little car,” Tasha said laughing.

“Well, I’ll invest in a bigger car once I find a reason to.”

“Ok, let me squeeze back here,” Tasha says and grins.

“Oh it’s not that bad,” Alice says and Tasha laughs. Tasha places the car seat in the back seat and grabs Bex from Alice and places her ever so gently in her seat.

“Alright, I better get going. Got to drop my kid off at my mom’s then head to work.”

“Oh,” Alice says in a melancholy tone. Normally her gaydar is finely tune, “well I better get going, Dana’s already freaking out.”