“I don’t know how I let you talk me into this.” Alice muttered as she stood in line with Mark waiting to get into the movie theater.

“Oh come on. You know you like them as much as I do.” Mark said to her. “And like I said before what’s not to love? It’s like movie candy, Alice. Chick flicks and horror movies. Without them the world would be forced to watch things that actually had some kind of point and the whole point of a movie is to be swept away into the realm of no point at all.” Mark looked toward the front of the line trying to see what the hold up was.

“Yeah, don’t give me that technical movie *****, Mr. ‘I just want to make documentaries’. You said it right earlier. Zombies. Guns. Hot chicks shooting Zombies with guns. Don’t go all professional now.”

“Yeah well Lish loves you. You saved her from having to experience this.”

“Yeah speaking of her, how the ***** did you ever get her to go out with you?”

“You of all people should know how irresistible I am.” Mark grinned.

Alice gave him a look of mock disgust and then smiled. “I really like her Mark. Don’t ***** this one up.” She warned him. “Look who’s talking right?” Alice questioned sadly.

“Hey. No moping tonight. Flesh eating Zombies. They’re not really teary material.” Mark said and then smiled sympathetically. “Have you talked to her?”

“Yeah a couple of times, but there’s nothing to say. Funny I never thought I would have any trouble at all talking to Dana.”

“You really miss her don’t you?” Mark noticed the sadness still present in Alice’s eyes.

“Well mostly I miss her incredibly and when I’m not busy doing that then I miss her desperately.”

“Maybe she’ll come around Alice.”

“She’s seeing someone else.” Alice spoke the words out loud for the very first time and was surprised that she didn’t burst into tears as soon as the words passed her lips.

“I’m sorry, Alice. I didn’t know.”

“That’s ok. I’ve had a lot of time to think about it and I know Dana better than anyone. She can’t let go of it. And why should she? It was her biggest insecurity. I just hope that we can at least be friendly toward each other. I know that she’ll never look at me the same, but I need to be near her. Dana’s always been the one thing in my life that I can always count on no matter what.” Alice paused not wanting to be depressed tonight. “But you know what? Right now, I am so ready to see hot chicks, killing rotting corpses that have come back to life. So what is the hold up?” Mark laughed and followed Alice’s gaze to the front of the line hoping that they would get inside soon