Looking up Alice saw Dana as she left out of The Planet. Her eyes not tearing away from the door even after Dana was gone.

“Alice?” Shane said. Alice stared, her eyes not wavering. “Al?” Shane said again. Her face contorting, her eyes squeezing shut, Alice began to cry.

“It’s okay, Alice.” Shane said getting up and putting an arm around her friend. ” She won’t even talk to me.” Alice sobbed her face buried into Shane’s jacket. Shane kept her mouth shut not knowing what to say as she gently rocked the crying Alice back and forth.

Grabbing a few napkins off the table, Carmen went over and kneeled down next to Shane. “I have an idea.” she said handing Alice the napkins.

“You wanna kill Lara?” Alice asked as she blew her nose in her napkin. “No. We’re not going to kill Lara, Alice.” Carmen replied smiling in spite of the seriousness in Alice’s tone.

“How about you come stay over the house? It’ll be a sleep over. Complete with food, fun, and Dana.” Carmen said helping Alice dab at the mascara running down her cheeks. “How are you gonna get Dana there?” Shane asked now sitting on the floor her back against one of the table legs. “More importantly how are you gonna get Dana without Lara?” Tina put in.

“Easy. We invite Dana give some sapphic excuse like “We’ve miss spending time with you” and ask her to come over by herself.” Carmen replied

“And if that doesn’t work?” Bette asked smiling. “We do want any logical person would do in this sort of situation.” replied Carmen her hands clasped around Alice’s. “And what’s that?” Alice asked. “We use force.”

“My god.” Shane said lightly pushing on Carmen. “Look Shane it’ll work okay. I’m good at this type of thing. Just no one mention that Alice is going to be there. Okay?” Carmen said looking around at the other women.

“Okay.” the women replied in unison. Kissing Alice lightly on the forehead, Carmen stood up and sat back in her seat. “Bette and Tina you guys could come too.”

“We wouldn’t miss this for the world, would we T?” Bette said looking over at Tina. “Definitely.” Tina replied, patting Angelica lightly on the back.