ALICE- omg dana…i didnt know how to handle it. i ..couldnt get up the guts to call your mother or the girls i mean, and you know how i love to get everyone involved…its ok to cry tho…ha, cause im crying too,((alices eyes filled with tears sharing all of danas emotions)) i mean…we can just….cry together….yeah…thats it…. we can cry together.((Alice is holding dana closely and tightly to her at the foot of the bed, dana falls into alices chest and begins sobbing hard.))

DANA- why is this happening to me? Why is it happening to me? what did i do wrong?

ALICE- nothing sweety, nothing. Nothing at all.

DANA- i have to call my mother, i have to let her know al, itll kill her.Maybe this is it((dana forces herself away from alice and walks to towards the window folded up in guard postion)) maybe this is my punishment for being….me…

ALICE- uh, dana what the ***** does that mean? what are you talking about?

DANA- cmon al, you never thought about the consequences(dana sniffles and wipes her eyes in frustration) of being a *****, its sin al.

ALICE- oh so typical, dana, now that something bad happens in your life you want to blame lesbianity, blame a choice you have no control over……and you know what dana, as far as i can remember LOVE wasnt a sin.

DANA- well its in the bible

ALICE- yeah well it looks like your church didnt do you any good cause according to you…. and your good book, you are currently a punished sinner.You are such a hypocrit.

DANA- ((stands glancing out the window in silence with a look of regret. Swallowing harsh words begging to jump out of her))Maybe you should come back later al(tears begin to fall again as she speaks softly )

ALICE- is, is that what you want?

DANA- (she looks over at alice and shrugs, )yeah, i think that would be best.

ALICE-(alice continues brushing the tears from her cheeks and the hair from her eyes as she scurrys around the room for her belongings)Ok. i guess. ill see you later.

DANA- ill call you, ok?..when i want you…to come back?

ALICE- sure, yeah.ok

DANA-ok

((alice leaves the room. Dana crawls back into her small hospital bed and curls up underneath the blanket. The room falls quiet.Again sobbing comes from dana. This time harder and longer.))