Tasha just stood there looking at Alice with tears streaming down her cheeks. Seven years in prison had changed Alice so completely she was unrecognizable. Maybe everything about her had changed. Maybe she didn’t love Tasha anymore.

The thought terrified her and it made her first words to Alice come out in a stammering mess. "A-Alice, I’ve, uh, I’ve missed you, so, uh, so so much."

Alice gulped and averted her gaze from her ex-girlfriend.

Tasha cleared her throat trying to gain more confidence. "You probably don’t wanna see me after everything that happened, but I need to say this," Tasha said.

Alice focused her teary gaze on Tasha, now there was a deep anger in those eyes. "Did you sleep with Jaime again?"

"What?" Tasha said in surprise.

"I understand the whole drunken mistake that happened when I was convicted," Alice said, "I’m not even mad at that and I shouldn’t have lied about sleeping with that other chick…"

"Whoa, whoa! You didn’t sleep with anyone else?" Tasha said in surprise.

"Why are you so surprised? Did that send you running back to Jaime?"

"Alice no!" Tasha cried, "after that mistake I never spoke to or even saw Jaime ever again. Not even on the streets! I moved away so I wouldn’t see her ever again."

"Oh," Alice said sounding surprised.

"Why do you sound surprised?"

Alice gulped. "Because I’ve been in prison for seven years and you did have feelings for Jaime."

"I felt like I had more in common with her," Tasha said, "everyone was telling us that we had nothing in common with each other, that we weren’t gonna make it as a couple. When I realized Jaime and I connected in that way I considered what all those people said. And you know what I realized?"

"What?"

"That all those people were wrong," Tasha said. "Jaime could have everything in common with me but she was missing the most important thing, and that was something you had and still have. My heart."

"S-still have?" Alice said in surprise.

"Yes Alice!" Tasha cried, "that’s why I went back for you at Bette and Tina’s goodbye party. That’s why I used all my life’s savings and risked my career to prove your innocence."