“What no cheerio’s today?” Alice asked. When Shane merely shrugged Alice made a gagging face by sticking her middle finger in her mouth and rolling her eyes into the back of her head.

“Oh that’s mature,” Shane said, and Carmen could resist getting back at Alice too.

“Hey Dana, isn’t that Alice’s ***** face?” Tina’s mouth hit the floor in disbelieving laughter, Drew’s eyes got wide, Alice stopped in shock, and Dana smiled, pleasantly satisfied that someone had finally managed top Alice. The entire group erupted with laughter as Alice sat dumbfounded. They were still laughing when Jenny came back in.

“Oh babe, that’s why I love you,” Shane said as she tried to stop laughing at the look of shock on Alice’s face. Carmen giggled and mouthed ‘sorry’ to Alice who smiled at Carmen and stuck out her hand.

“Touch!” Alice said, admitting defeat and Carmen laughed harder, shaking her hand and saluting her.

“Wow, you beat the master, that’s amazing. I think she should get a reward,” Bette said smiling lovingly at Carmen who made modest gestures with her hands. When they finally calmed down it was time for most of them to head back, or to start out, to work. The only one’s left where Carmen, Jenny, Shane, Drew and Tina who was waiting for Bette to get Angelica, who had disappeared with her Aunty Kit.

“So Drew, where do you work?” Tina asked as the Terrible Three sat giggling at something. Drew looked over and smiled at her new roommates, they were really a tight knit bunch, and she still had the feeling she hadn’t quiet grasped the true connection there between all of them.

“I work at DD Flare, it’s a club in the heart of LA. I’m a dancer, other then that, I have to be honest with you, my parents support me. But I don’t need a lot of their money, I do pretty well with the tip’s at DD,” Drew said. Tina nodded, apparently satisfied with the explanation.

Shane perked up, a laughing smile still on her face, “Did you say DD Flare?”

“Yeah, you know it? Most people here don’t, it’s kinda not mainstream.”

“Yeah. Alice was joking about that one time. She said ‘DD’ stood for ‘***** Drama’. I don’t really remember how it came up. I think she was writing on the best ***** clubs in LA. We usually hang at Milk,” Shane informed her. Drew smiled and nodded.