“Alice? Do you need anything else?” Alice looked up to see Lara standing over looking at her expectantly.

“No. I’m alright.” Alice paused and then finally asked. “How’s Dana?” She asked, her voice breaking on the second syllable of Dana’s name.

Lara looked down. “She’s OK.” Lara answered, not mentioning Dana’s date. “Aren’t you supposed to be working?” Lara looked at her, suddenly confused that the other woman was sitting there when she should have been able to hear her on the radio.

“Yeah, I’m going now. They gave me the day off the air, but that’s only because the boss is bringing me in to give me a butt chewing.” Lara raised her eyebrows in question. “I’ve been dropping too many calls lately.” Alice paused and then answered Lara’s next question. “Too many ***** have been calling up and asking if I can tell them how to get a hold of Dana now that I’m done with her. So if I even hear Dana’s name forming I’ve been cutting them loose.”

“I’m sorry, Alice.” Lara said surprised that she honestly meant it.

“Yeah. So now I get to go in and sit down and let them tell me how to deal with it.” Alice started to gather her things and walked toward the door. “Hey Lara.” Lara turned to look at her. “Thank you for asking.” She said sincerely. Lara smiled and Alice turned to walk out the door and toward her car. I thad been a long time since anyone had asked her how she was doing. Some days she didn’t even realize how much she missed having Dana there waiting for her after a hard day. Alice even missed telling her about her good days. Now there was no one for Alice to talk to and this left her incredibly lonely. She had not seen or heard from Dana since the night that she had went over to beg her to let her fix what she had done. And since then she had respected Dana’s request for space, but she was starting to miss her even more desperately if it was possible. That was the cause of her recent bout of insomnia and the reason that she had been calling the familiar number every night for the last few weeks. She just needed to hear Dana’s voice. She didn’t know what she was supposed to do without her. She honestly thought that Dana would have forgiven her by now, but her girlfriend had not yet budged on being angry with Alice. And Alice wasn’t kidding herself into believing that she should be forgiven she had just thought that Dana would have at least called her by now. Alice started her car and drove off in frustration