“Oh, hey. How’d you sleep?” Mark asked as he got out cups for himself and Shane.

“I can’t tell yet.” Shane answered. “Jenny left already. I went in to wake her up and her and all of her stuff was gone.”

“Yeah, well, she probably didn’t want to go through the whole goodbye thing again.”

“Probably right.” Shane answered distractedly as she looked out onto their porch. “Jesus, is that Dana sleeping on our porch?”

Mark walked over and stood next to Shane as he followed her gaze out the window. “Now that’s love.”

“What the ***** is she doing out there? And how the ***** is she still sleeping?” Shane asked as she looked at the tennis player in awe.

“She must not have went home last night after I told her that Alice wasn’t coming outside.” The roommates stood for a moment longer watching their friend sleep. “I guess she really meant it when she said that she wasn’t leaving until Alice came out.”

“These two are killing me. Will you get her a cup of coffee? I’m gonna go wake up sleeping beauty.” Shane opened the door and walked out onto the porch toward the sleeping form of Dana Fairbanks. “Dana. Dane, honey wake up.” Shane gently shook her shoulder and almost burst out laughing when Dana jumped up startled out of her sleep. “Have a good nap?”

“What the ***** are you doing here, Shane?” Dana asked as her heart sank back into her chest.

“Well it is my porch Fairbanks, but you know if you want me to let you get back to sleep go right ahead.”

Dana looked around and noticed for the first time exactly where she was. “Oh my God I fell asleep on your porch.” Dana looked embarrassed as she met Shane’s eyes. “I was waiting for Alice.”

Shane chuckled and shook her head. “Come on, we have coffee.” Dana took the hand that Shane held out to her and let the other woman help her up off the porch steps.

“I just figured that I would wait for her to either leave or I would be here in the morning. I didn’t mean to fall asleep.” Dana followed Shane into the house as she ran her fingers through her hair trying to make sure that it wasn’t out of control, which it rarely was.