Chapter 19

Jenny fixed Alice’s wig and Carmen stepped back and surveyed her face, then stepped forward again and applied more makeup here and there. Carmen and Shane had told her step one with Dana had gone better then it had so that she wasn’t deterred from step two. The one that was bound to work. Shane stood by the counter and pulled the outfit out. She saw Jenny doing the wig wrong and smiled and walked over to help her.

“Okay, so I have to try and get Dana to sleep with me. And when she doesn’t, then I reveal myself and declare my love?” Alice repeated. Carmen cringed at the thought of what could happen.

“Something like-”

“Carmen,” Alice warned, Carmen looked up like a deer caught in the headlights, had she done that out loud? She didn’t catch that the saying made no sense in this situation, she was to busy sweating. “What was that?”

“What was- ahem- what?” Carmen asked trying to fix a blob of creamy makeup.

“Why did you cringe. Guys I need to know everything, tell me. I- I can handle it. I mean I’m-”

“Dana blew up when I showed her all her options and I know it’s because she knew I was right, that you should get back together, but she stormed out and I saw something in her eyes that I didn’t like-” Shane blew out in one breath and gasped for another.

“Which was?”

“She’s going to try and sleep with everything in sight. She’s who I was a long time ago,” Shane whispered and everyone was quiet. It wasn’t that long ago. Alice swallowed her worries and the girls finished up and left for Milk.

*

Dana was on the prowl, but the strange thing was, she wasn’t that drunk. Which she usually had to be to be confident enough to flirt. Alice knew she couldn’t go up to Dana, or that would wreck the plan, she had to wait till Dana came to her. She sat at the bar drinking Dana’s favourite drink and waited. Shane, Carmen- and Jenny too- where scattered throughout Milk, hiding in the shadows and watching carefully in case something when wrong. Dana sat at the bar, clearly tired from her rounds of flirting with various women. She looked up and saw the most beautiful woman sitting a few chairs over, she stopped and her mouth dropped open noticeably. Alice thought she was caught. Shane tensed, Carmen gasped and a hand went to her lips. Jenny closed her eyes.