“Morning, Dana.” Mark smiled as he held out a cup of coffee.

Dana took the offered coffee and shrunk back, slightly embarrassed. “Thank you.” She said as she sat at the table and Shane watched her embarrassment turn to misery.

“Alice is never going to talk to me again.” Dana whined as the events of the previous night came reeling back to the front of Dana’s brain.

“I bet it’s not that bad, Dana. What happened anyway?” Shane offered her. Dana groaned and kept her head buried in her arms. “I fucked up.” Came her muffled reply to the question. Dana picked up her head and looked at Shane and Mark who had both pulled out their own chairs and were now sitting across from Dana patiently waiting for her to tell them what had happened between her and the blonde reporter. “I was supposed to have dinner or something last night with Alice. I mean we were gonna get together, you know catch up a little, maybe talk a little. But right when Alice was supposed to show up Lara showed up.” Shane raised her eyebrow. “I didn’t invite her or anything.” Dana said defensively. “She just showed up and told me that she loved me and that she wanted us to have another chance at things and I just stood there trying to figure out what to say and then I looked up and there was Alice watching the whole thing. Looking at me like I could control everything that Lara said. I mean I can’t help how she feels.”

Shane looked over at Mark slightly amused at her two best friends. “Yeah she can’t help it that she’s irresistible.” She said with a straight face.

“You know that’s true, when You’re hot, you can’t help it if the whole world is in love with you.”

Dana gave the two of them a withering look, “You know what? ***** you both. This is serious.”

Shane and Mark both stifled their giggles and then looked over at Dana. Shane saw the same thing that she had seen in Alice when the blonde had come to see her the previous day. “Alright. Dana go get in the shower.”

“How is a shower going to help me?”