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If I Fall: Chapter 18
She threw her head back against the head rest and closed her weary eyes tight. Yet without warning, her frustration gradually gave way to nostalgia as images of she and Dana, tangled up in last night’s embrace, began floating through her memory. She quickly shot her eyes open, trying to avoid any more colorful imagery, especially since the memories seemed to be subtly transforming into a vivid fantasy that Alice did not want to let herself have.
Convinced her mind was playing tricks on her from the lack of sleep it was afforded, she turned the car radio up louder hoping to drown out her thoughts. But even the sounds of Tegan & Sara couldn’t mask the thoughts of Dana and all the feelings the brunette had stirred in her. A lot had happened last night. Most of which Alice wished hadn’t occurred, and some of which Alice couldn’t bring herself to dealing with just yet. Dana had kissed her. And then she had kissed Dana. It was as simple as that…as simple as the 4am kiss that started it all over a year ago. But it wasn’t simple at all. It was complicated and indulgent and disconcerting all at the same time. And yet nothing in the past seven months had made half as much sense to Alice as what had happened last night.
But…what was she supposed to think about everything else that happened? Putting aside the incredible physical connection she felt with Dana last night, what about all the other stuff? Could Dana have been serious about what she said? Did she really consider their breakup a mistake after all this time? Was she actually still in love with Alice? Or was Dana just entirely too drunk to have really meant any of it? Was she going to act like none of it meant anything once she’s had some time to sober up? Too many questions and knowing Dana the way she did, there would never be any answers. She just had to put it out of her mind, pretend nothing had happened last night and go on with her life before Dana swooped in and started messing around with it again. She had a good thing here with Jules, and she wasn’t about to fuck that up by taking yet another chance on Dana. Dana, with her lack of communication and trust in love and in herself, who left Alice once before, shattering her entire existence because of fear and insecurity. Alice was not about to play the fool for a second time.
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(34 votes, average: 3.82 out of 5)
Damn right she can…although the Julish reconciliation vexes me, mostly because I too am waiting for the other shoe to drop and Dana to get flat-out rejected and heartbroken. It’s wrong of me to want them to reconcile and be happy when they haven’t worked through their stuff, but dammit they freaking need to. Oh, and don’t feel obligated to post. I’m assuming you’ll be busy with law-school-esque things, and those take precedence over any type of Danish fiction. Think of your career! Wow, I’m really rambling. This is what not sleeping for three days will do to your brain.
Great update – with Shane on the job, I hope she can make them come together. PPS
god i want alice to be happy she deserves it so much…and dana is it but i like jules too shes a great character..buuuuuut dana its always been dana and always will thats what i reckon anyway lol i love this story so much you write so well good job:)
Someone has been busy writing! (yay for us readers – though I get the impression it is going to get worse for danish before it gets better…
screw your career. POST soon dammit! man… i have a headache. I hear Alice and Shane talking and think- Dana really did foul this up– and i’m still not sure why- and what’s changed, really? why SHOULD Alice believe her– other than she really wants to and loves her. i’m mad at dana. but i also adore her and don’t want her heartbroken plus i know she is who Alice needs and wants…. see-this is why you need to post. i am looking forward to seeing how Dana handles seeing Alice with Jules that evening- i’ll wring her neck if she runs. : )
i love this story. it’d be too much to hope that shane taped dana’s confession right? that’d be an asshole move, but alice needs to hear everything dana said. argh.
The only thing I don’t like about each chapter of your story is that eventually each one ends. I just want them to go on and on! I look forward to the next update as time permits.