Leisha nodded. “That’s alright. I’ll just wait here for her.” Leisha understood what was going on. Being a woman herself and having just went through the same thing at her own house Leisha smiled and nodded understandingly as Lara nodded her head toward the stairs and backed slowly away from her.

Lara ran back up the stairs and into the bedroom to find Dana brushing her teeth for the second time. “Dana you’re going to be fine.” Lara rested her hand on Dana’s back and tried to reassure her friend.

“I know.” Dana took a deep breath and walked back out into the bedroom. “I just need to get down there. How is she?” Dana asked.

“She’snot what I expected. But she’s beautiful. And you’re going to have fun. Right?” She asked when she saw the somewhat doubtful look on Dana’s face.

Dana took a deep breath. “Right.” She said as she let it back out. “I just need to get down there and do this.” Dana took one more deep breath and walked toward the stairs. “How do I look?” Dana asked slightly nervous.

“Amazing.” Lara repeated. “Now go. And remember, you’ll be fine.”

Dana nodded and then turned and left Lara standing in the middle of her bedroom looking around at the mess that her panic attack had left. “HI.” Dana greeted Leisha as soon as she saw her standing next to the door.

“Hi.” Leisha smiled her own greeting and then nodded toward the door. “Ready?” She asked. Dana nodded and Leisha held the door for her as she grabbed a jacket and walked out the door

Alice looked glumly down at her coffee as she got ready to leave the Planet and go to work. To bad the radio didn’t cease to exist in the wake of severe break ups. Alice had been dreading going to work and acting like nothing was wrong. Especially when she had gotten a number of people calling in asking about her and Dana. Alice blamed “Q” Magazine for this. The first year that Dana had won the US open and she had moved to a major radio station was when they had first printed the words “***** Power Couple”. From then on Dana and Alice had giggled about it every time they saw it in print. And it ended up in print quite often due to the fact that Dana had gone on to win a zillion other tournaments and Alice’s radio show had continued to gain a fair amount of notoriety. Add this to the countless charities that she and Dana supported and the fact that Dana had used her father’s financial genius to secure a spot among California’s wealthiest and you truly could understand the phrase that nearly every magazine used to describe them. Alice had always just thought it slightly funny that she should be one half of a ***** power couple, seeing as though she still considered herself to be Bi-sexual, but now she just thought it irritating. Especially since the other day she had seen it in a gossip column in bold print under the “Breakups” section of the page. “***** power couple Dana Fairbanks and Alice Piesecki have officially announced their separation. Fairbanks Publicist has confirmed the rumors that have been flying around since” Blah, blah, blah. Alice thought in disgust. Why couldn’t people just mind their own business. She had waved the magazine around irritably at Mark and Shane when she had first read it.