Life:
Altered 03.23 ~*~ Time To Remember

            Sunday night and Shane was being led into the back of the
Planet by Alice, who hadn’t stopped talking about Quin.  Their elbows interlocked, but as they moved
passed the door, Shane let go and began to navigate the room on her own. 

            “Al, dude chill.  I like her already; I mean the woman hauled
you off to NYC for dinner, why wouldn’t I like her?”  Shane asked, using the cane for only the third time this
week.  She and Dana had been working for hours on end at
getting her use to the cane.  Dana even had gone as far as moving the
furniture around to drive Shane insane the first day with the cane.  Alice nodded.

            “You’re getting good.  Where is Miss Dana thang anyway to see your stunning
progress?”  Alice asked, it was very early, but Alice had stolen Shane for dinner, wanting to get Shane‘s take on things with Quin.  Shane had been home, alone and Dana, nowhere to be found.

            “So how did you leave it?”  Shane asked pushing aside the question of where Dana was, because where Dana was, wasn’t sitting very well with Shane.  A
numb burn in her belly told her that she was, once again, in deep, deep trouble.  She thought Dana was going right back to where she’d been
a year ago, and even if she wasn’t in the closet, it might be just as bad.

            “We, um.  Left it rather nicely, and she asked me to be
here tonight.  She has to sing me a song,
part of the bet, did I tell you that?”  Alice asked, not telling a soul about who Quin
was.  The secret wasn’t burning a hole in
her pocket like she’d have thought it would have been.  It was comfortable, sitting in her heart,
safe and sound.  Who Quin was no longer
bothered her; it was who Quin was TO her that meant something to Alice now.

            “Yeah, you told me Al, ok. 
Something is so up with you….”  Shane said leaning closer to Alice and making Alice push her playfully.  Shane smiled brightly, feeling at ease even though she
couldn’t see anything, just shimmering shapes every once in a while, but mostly
the darkness.  Shane welcomed it in a way; it kept her at
arms length of everyone; including herself.