“Oh shit Shane I got..well it’s on your jacket.” Alice said reaching for napkins to dab at the snot on Shane’s jacket. “Fuck, Al.”

“Sorry.” Alice said wiping away at her friend. “It’s okay. It’s okay. I’ll just take it off.” Shane said standing up and pulling off the jacket as she sat back down next to Carmen.

“You guys know this is just an excuse for Carmen to try and braid my hair, right?” Shane said taking a sip of her coffee. “All the more reason to go.”Bette replied to the table of laughing women.

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Dana sat on the edge of her bed feet flat on the floor idly throwing a tennis ball against the wall. Looking out of her window she could see the once blue skies had turned gray with the promise of a thunderstorm. Inwardly Dana cringed, Alice hates the rain. “Sure sometimes it was poetic but mostly it’s just rain.” she remembered Alice saying as they lied in bed listening to the water beat against the window. In all truthfulness she missed Alice a lot. But, she was with Lara, she’d promised herself to Lara, and there was no way she was going to break that.

Dana turned toward the sound of someone banging on the front door, the ball on its return visit crashing into her face. “Damn!”

She got up and hurriedly walking to the door where the banging still persisted. Opening it up she revealed two figures holding each others hand, wearing dark sunglasses, with windswept hair, a look of pure business on their faces.

Taking the two in, her eyebrow arched up peculiarly, Dana cracked a smile and began singing, ” I wear my sunglasses at night.”

“I’m sure you do.” Shane said pushing past Dana and walking in, Carmen quickly in tow. ” We have to talk.” Shane added sitting down on the couch pulling Carmen on top of her.

“Is this about Alice?” Dana asked as she closed the door and walked over to the two. “Why does everything have to be about Alice? Why can’t to friends come over and talk to their friend?” Carmen asked threading her fingers into Shane.

“Well the two friends who are coming over usually spend their time fucking than talking to friends.” Dana said sitting down across from them. “She has a point there sweetheart.” Shane said kissing Carmen lightly on her temple. “And that’s precisely why we’ve come over.”