Alice eventually broke apart from me when the credits began to roll. I desperately wanted to sit there with her forever but Alice was looking at the clock and it seemed that she wanted go, much to my disappointment. “Wow, its late, I’d better go” She stood up and straightened out her clothes.

“Are you sure you’re ok Dane?” I obviously hadn’t done a very good job of convincing her I’m ok.  

“Yes Alice!” I smiled at her, really wishing that she would drop it.

“Things alright with Lara?” Okay, so it was obvious. I decided I should just tell her the truth, or as much of the truth that I could.

“Well, to be honest, no. We had an argument before you came tonight. I don’t know what it is, we just seem to be drifting apart. I seem to be doing that a lot recently, drifting apart from the people I care about”. I looked Alice in the eyes, waiting for her reaction. I was trying to move the conversation away from Lara and had not really meant to bring up about me and Alice drifting apart.

“Hey, it will be ok Dane. I know me and you haven’t seen a lot of each other lately but tonight was fun wasn’t it? We’ll do it again soon, there’s no way I’m going to drift away from you again, I’m right here, ok? And as for Lara, you two will make it up, all couples have arguments. She would be a fool to drift away from you”. I smiled at her and pulled her into a hug, holding her close to me. It meant so much to me that things seemed to be nearly as they used to be.

She hugged me back, and didn’t make any motion to pull apart quickly. We held each other for a few minutes and finally broke apart. “Thanks Al, it’s great to have things back to normal”

“Yeah it is. Give me a call if you need to talk about anything ok.” I really appreciated this, the old Alice was back.  

“Okay. Good night Dana” She leaned in and gave me a peck on the cheek. I grinned.

“Good night Alice”. I went to bed feeling content with my wonderful evening with Alice and although I should have been worried about things with Lara, I wasn’t.