Life: Still Altered 4.04

            “Shane!”  Dana yelled,
she was in the bedroom, stark naked, dripping wet, and panicked.

            “Dana!”
called back Shane; Dana
leaned out of the doorway, looking back and forth in the hallway.  No one was there.  It seemed that lately, everyone was at their
house.  If it wasn’t Daisy and Ro, it was
Quin, Tina and Cassandra, if not them, it was
Better.  Sometimes it was Alice,
you just never knew who was hiding in the rafters. 

            “Where are you?” asked
Dana, paddling around the hallway,
listening for Shane.  She paddled along the hallways, leaving
puddles of water in her wake, the only thing she was wearing was a smile, and
her wedding ring.

            “In the kitchen…,”
began Shane.  Dana rushed to
the kitchen, eyes wide, sliding to a stop, seeing Alice
there, yelling at the top of her lungs, “with Alice…”
finished Shane. 

            “I didn’t see
anything, I didn’t see anything…,” said Alice,
hands over her eyes, shaking her head from side to side.  Shane laughed, and Dana dashed back to the
small bathroom. 

            “Damn it, Shane!”  Dana lamented,
and Alice
laughed now.  The first real laughter she’d
felt inside of her in over three months, ever since she’d cheated on Quin. 

            “That was funny,” said
Alice.

            “That was, Dana,”
added Shane. 
“Dane, what’s wrong that had you screaming my name like a banshee…”  Shane looked
over at Alice,
“she does scream like a banshee, but only when she’s in a certain position…,”
eluded Shane.

            “God, stop!”  Alice  Dana
came back into the room, her clothes stuck to her because she’d failed to dry
herself off before putting on her clothes.
laughed.

            “I was yelling
because, damn it, I’m losing my hair. 
It’s only been a month of treatment, and I’m losing my hair!”

            Shane
moved to her, face serious.  She adjusted
her glasses, slowly pulling Dana into a
comforting hug, “I’m sorry, baby.”

            Alice
sat at on the bench at the counter, biting her lip.  The last month had gone by slowly, Dana
had begun her treatment’s.  The lump had
been malignant, and the cancer was spreading. 
The prognosis wasn’t good.

            “Is it true it grows
back thicker, after the chemo?”  Dana
asked, nose wrinkled in curiosity, giving Shane a
wink.  Shane  “Then by all means,
let it fall out.”  Laughed Dana,
kissing ShaneShane’s
arms, nuzzling into her.
laughed, nodding. quickly, finding quick comfort in