Tina: “Donk?”

Ben: “Yeah my roommate, we call him donkey. Anyway, you wanna come?”

Tina: “I don’t know”

Ben: “Come on, you couldn’t possibly do anything more fun than that.”

After about ten minutes of persuasion Tina finally caved.

Tina: “OK, ok I’ll go but im not doing your 80′s thing.”

Ben: “Ah that’s the best part. But I’ll take it. I will call you after class tomorrow and I can pick you up.”

Tina: “Ok, I should go, I have a lot of work to finish”

Ben: “Yeah yeah, I know”

Tina: “Thank you…Ben”

Ben: “Your welcome”

Ben hung up the phone and sat there for a moment. You could almost see the thoughts running through his mind. He picked up the phone again and dialed.

“Hey….yeah….what are you doing in like an hour……ok….planet….sure…peace” he hung up the phone and sat back in his chair.

Bette stared at Alice, it was obvious she was hiding her phone conversation.

Bette: “Another secret spy mission?”

Alice: “What? Oh, no. That was uh, Dana. She’s just having a little…it’s no big deal.” she waved her hand in the air “Where were we?”

Bette: “Maybe I should just give up on Tina”

Alice: “Maybe someone should just slap her upside the head” she muttered before taking a sip of coffee

Bette: “I just wish I knew what happened. You can only use the work excuse so many times. Why doesn’t she just talk to me, does she think my ego is really that big?” agitation was surrounding her words.

Alice: “Eh, well it is kinda big. But in a deserving way”

Bette: “Thanks Al. Im gonna get back to work now” she stood up from the table.

Alice: “Hey, I will call you later about this weekend. We will do something fun.”

Bette: “Sure” she replied with a sullen tone.

Bette walked out of the planet and headed back to her car. Alice leaned back in her seat and took a deep breath. “This sucks” she said out loud. For the next forty five minutes Alice sat there dreaming up ways to try to make this situation better. She hated not being able to help her friend and she hated not knowing what was going on even more.

Ben climbed out of his car right on schedule and walked in to the planet. He spotted Alice siting Alone and looking frazzled.

Ben: “Hey” he said pulling out a chair.

Alice: “Hey, what’s going on?” she leaned closer hoping he had some useful information.

Ben: “I just talked to Tina.”

Alice: “And did she tell you why she’s breaking Bette’s heart?”

Ben: “You really think she likes her that much?”

Alice: “I have never seen act this way.”

Ben: “This sucks. This is all my fault, you know.”

Alice: “How is this your fault?”

Ben: “I should have never opened my ***** mouth”

Alice: “The uh, lets be vague and cryptic game isn’t working right now. What did you say?”

Ben sat there for a moment thinking then suddenly jumped up.

Ben: “This isn’t my fault, it’s her fault.” he began to walk away

Alice: “Where the ***** are you going?”

Ben: “Tomorrow, Rock Bottom. Nine o’clock” was all he said before he exited in to the street.