“So you think Serena is a mistake?”

“I hope not,” Tina sighed.

*****

“Alice… what is this?” Bette asked standing next to a bus of some sort.

“Our ride,” she answered cheerfully.

“Where did you steal it?” Shane asked seriously.

Carmen, Serena and Tina laughed.

“What’s so funny?” Kit inquired walking out of the caf.

“I didn’t steal it,” Alice huffed.

“Yeah, right.”Carmen laughed.

“What is that?” Kit asked in the Kit rolling her neck way.

“Everyone calm down. It’s a bus.”

“We can’t take that, Al,” Bette snapped.

“Where did you expect me to find a car big enough to fit all of us? I have a friend who works at the airport and said I could borrow it. We just have to have it back before eight Sunday.”

“We’re riding in a…carabus, Alice. A stolen carabus,” Tina dead panned.

“Not stolen…borrowed.,” she corrected.

“I can’t believe this,” Shane muttered climbing on.

“If we get pulled over, Alice, I don’t know you,” Tina stated getting on.

*****

A hour into the drive, even though the bus had a radio, the carriage was silent. Alice was at the helm drinking her eighth cup of coffee. She was in a zone and oblivious to the movements of her girlfriend kneeling beside her.

“Tired yet?” Dana asked placing her hand on Alice’s shoulder.

She jumped.

“Jesus! You scared the ***** out of me.”

“Sorry.”

“Everyone asleep back there?” Alice asked using the rearview mirror to see her friends.

“Yeah. How are you doing?” Dana asked again running her hands through Alice’s hair.

“I’m fine,” she quickly answered.

“Let me know when you want me to take over,” Dana offered.

“Stay and talk to me?” Alice asked.

Since there wasn’t a passenger seat, Dana positioned herself on the floor with her back facing Alice, looking out of the panel windows on the door.

“About what?” she asked watching the scenery go by.

“Do you like Serena?” Alice answered the question with a question.

“Yeah, why?”

“Don’t you think it’s weird that she’s interested in an eighteen year old girl?”

“Just because Evan isn’t twenty-one doesn’t mean she isn’t mature. She surpasses me on some days on maturity,” she laughed.

“Seriously Dane.”

“Serena seems genuinely interested in Evan. I don’t think she’ll hurt her. And beside… Serena knows she’ll have to deal with all of us if anything happens,” Dana said punching her own hand.

*****