“That’s great! You’ll have to let me read it when you’re done.”

“I Will.”

They both continued to eat their ice cream. Tina wanted to talk to Alice about what happened. She was very hesitant; but she needed to talk to someone who at least could in someway identify with these feelings; and she had grown to be good friends with Alice these past few moths.

“Alice; can I talk to you about something?”

Alice put her spoon in her dish.

“Yeah; what do you want to talk about?”

Tina opened her mouth to speak; but she started to get scared again. Maybe I shouldn’t…no tell her…no…

“Well; today I was at Bette’s…”

Alice waited for Tina to finish; Tina looked down at her now melting bowl of ice cream. “What about Bette?” Alice asked. Tina didn’t say anything; she wasn’t ready; she forced a smiled and said;

“Nothing; its nothing. Forget it.”

Tina stood up; taking her bowl with her.

“I better finish up my work so I can get some sleep tonight; goodnight.”

Alice watched Tina walk back to her room; she knew that Tina was keeping something from her; and it was killing her not knowing what it was.

~~~~~

            Class was let out early that morning. Mr. Erickson had spent most the morning going over everyone’s outlines and scripts. He would be choosing the three that he thought would be good for the students to work on; after choosing them the class would be split into teams and work on the projects. Tina was gathering all of her things just as she was about to leave Mr. Erickson called her over.

“Tina could I speak with you?”

“Yeah; sure.” Tina walked over to his desk as the last few students left the room. Tina could see that Mr. Erickson had her script in his hand.

“Tina I wanted to talk to you about this storyline you wrote.”

Oh no; he hates it…Tina thought to herself.

“I Love it.”

Tina’s eyes widened. “You do?”

“Yes. I have to say it’s quite different from what I had expected; but it’s brilliant. I haven’t had anyone submit this kind of a story; about one woman falling in love with another; and all the fear; and everything that she goes through. I know that people have done this before in movies; but yours well…it’s different. It’s a nice change from these horror stories that so many students have submitted. I think that a lot of people could relate to it. I really like the emotion coming from it; and that’s what I like about your stories. They come from real life experiences; and I like the ending. I just wanted to give you heads up and let you know that your script is one of the three I have chosen.” Tina was dumbfounded. It was only less than twenty-four hours ago she had nothing written and feared that she might fail her class; she had no idea that her story would be chosen. “Thank you so much.” She smiled. Mr. Erickson laughed. “You have a great talent Tina; keep it up.” Tina couldn’t stop smiling; she turned and walked out of the room.