She took the package she kept on her to prove to her self that she didn’t need it. Obviously she did. and without hesitation or guilt she inhaled deeply through her nose instantly easing the pain in her head and in her heart – the familiar feeling washed over her – she could deal with anything like this – cos she couldn’t feel it.

Shane sauntered out of the bathroom to see Alice being comforted by Tina.

Alice flew to her feet when she saw Shane. Shane in a drug crazed vision reacted by gut instinct and greeted Alice with a mighty shove to her shoulders, at the same time Tina screamed ‘Shane NO.’. Alice was knocked backwards over the tables.

Tina phoned Bette to get over there straight away, as it was Bette was outside parking her car, she came in to witness Shane’s aggression and Alice’s fall. Shane dropped to her knees, she knew what she’d done but her head was not hers. – Alice stood to her feet unhurt but scared, at the same time all three watched Shane fall to her knees on the floor and saw a trickle of bright red blood from Shane’s nose, her eyes darkened and as she fell to the floor she shouted out the name that was constantly in her head.

‘BETTE…………….’

Bette ran over to Shane who had collapsed on the floor of the Planet, Alice and Tina just stared down in shock and disbelief.. Tina could not comprehend what she had just witnessed. The whole scenario was unbelievable.

Bette quickly put Shane into a recovery position whilst her mind was racing a head to perform CPR and phoning an ambulance. As Bette leaned forward to she if she could find a pulse, Shane stirred and groaned.

‘I think she just passed out,‘ Bette said mainly to Alice and Tina but also so the group of spectators could hear.

Bette gave Shane a little time to fully come round.

Shane, Shane, what happened did you take something?

‘Bette, Bette…… I’m sorry……..I just couldn’t handle it……….Tina and then Alice.’

‘Shane, its ok now, everything’s ok, I’m here, can you stand? I’ll take you back to my house.’ glancing at Tina, ‘our house.’

‘Bette it was a one off, I wouldn’t want to let you down its just, just I cant handle it.’

Tina and Alice watched on, Tina was racking her brains to what had just happened, she turned to Alice for some sort of explanation.

Alice with tears in her eyes just turned to Tina and whispered that she really really didn’t want to talk about it and turned and left.

Tina watched the interaction between Bette and Tina and although somewhat confused with what Shane had said, she was proud of the way Bette had handled things, she really wanted to speak to Bette to find some answers and to hear why Bette had said that torturing ‘but’ over the phone. ‘I’ll come too,’ Tina said.. She wanted to fill Bette in on the events that had just taken place at the Planet and make Bette realize that Shane hadn’t just attacked Alice but there had been an altercation which led up to the scene that Bette had just witnessed.

Shane let out another moan. Bette held a tissue up to Shane’s nose to stop the trickle of blood and hopefully to stop her mumbling something that would make Tina realise something was going on.

Back at the house

Shane was on the couch, still spaced out, but she was aware of Bette and Tina’s conversation. Their conversation headed towards the phone call that had left Tina in turmoil. Tina’s voice was raising.

‘So Bette, are you seeing someone else?

They both heard the door slam. By the time they had ran to the window, Shane was out of sight. Tina didn’t know what the hell was going on with everyone recently and now it seemed Shane was freaking too. Tina turned to Bette to see if they could team up and pool resources to help find Shane but Bette beat her to it with, ‘I’ve got to go back to work, let yourself out when you’re ready. With that Bette left.