The flustered taxi driver drove away, leaving the girls at the curb. Alice and Shane began laughing, grabbing one another to support themselves they were laughing so hard. Alice lost her balance and fell back, flat on her butt, causing Shane to howl with laughter once again. Dana looked confused and asked, “What? What’s so funny?”

Alice and Shane continued to scream with laughter, leaving a drunken, confused Dana to shrug and walk up to Bette and Tina’s front door.

Alice and Shane quickly joined her. “Alright, we’ll make quick pleasantries, and then retreat to the guest room. I know for a fact that Tina’s not sleeping in there anymore, after tonight,” Alice instructed, wiggling her eyebrows.

All three giggled and, barely able to keep their hands off each other, rang the doorbell. Tina answered and they all three quickly greeted her and Bette, and then made fast rounds around the room, greeting a few people they knew, just as Alice instructed.

Looking around, Shane first snuck quickly into the guest room, breathless with anticipation. Alice pulled Bette aside, and in a quick breath, told her, “I’m staying here tonight, okay? In the guest room. I’ve got plans, so, um, don’t come in or anything, okay? Thanks, bye!”

Bette looked bewildered as she watched Alice take off like a shot, grabbing a woman who’s face Bette couldn’t see from her angle, and run into the guest room, slamming the door behind them.

“What was that? More importantly, who was that?” Tina questioned, walking up beside her.

Bette shook her head. “Your guess is as good as mine. All I know is that Alice said she’s staying here in the guest room tonight, and she’ll have company.”

Tina wrinkled her nose. “I know what that means. Who do you think it is? Anyone we know?”

Bette replied, “I don’t know. I couldn’t tell. Probably just some random girl she picked up at Milk and invited back here. You know Alice.”

Tina grinned in response, as Bette suddenly realized something. “Say, how’d she know the guest room would be free tonight?”

Tina reddened slightly. “Well, ummm…”

Bette smiled wickedly and begin tickling Tina. “You told her!”

Tina shrieked with laughter at the tickling, which quickly turned to kissing. Hot, ***** kissing. Soon, both were breathless as they made out against the wall. They were interrupted by a voice that said, “*****, get a room, Baby Sister.”

They both looked up sheepishly to see Kit grinning at them. Bette looked closely at her older sister, noticing her eyes looked slightly puffy. “Kit, is everything okay?”

Kit looked away. “I’m fine. Nothing I can’t handle.”

Tina wrapped an arm around Kit’s waist, sensing something was wrong. “So, did you need something, Kit?”

“Actually, I was looking for Shane or Dana. I needed to talk a few things over with both of them about The Planet. Have you seen either one of them?”

Bette frowned and glanced around the room. “Wait, weren’t they just here?”

Tina squinted into the distance, thinking. “Yes, they came in with Alice, remember?”

Bette looked around. “So where are they now?”

The three looked at each other and shrugged. “They’ll turn up,” Kit said with a shrug.

“They always do, sort of like a bad penny,” Bette observed.

“Besides, knowing Shane, she’s probably busy ‘romancing’ a woman, or even two, somewhere around here,” Tina added, and they all laughed at Shane’s unique powers of seduction, not realizing that Shane was indeed working her magic with Dana and Alice just a few rooms away.