‘Umm..actually I’m with someone now,’ Helena explained.

‘Ah yes the English girl but she’s back in England now right?’

‘Right, but she’s coming back soon.’

Natasha got up and shrugged.  ‘You know where I am if you get lonely.’

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Two weeks later and Alexa and Rachel were relaxing in a nice hotel on the Spanish island of Mallorca.  It had been a good four days so far, winding down after exam stress, having some real time to spend together.  Rachel watched Alexa trying to bronze her back in her bikini beside her.  She planned to speak to Alexa in a few hours about dinner tonight, ask her about her suspected new secretive love interest, try and face and maybe discuss the tumult of feeling that stirred up within her.  It had been wonderful to have this time with Alexa.  It came second only to the seven week road trip they had spent one summer driving around the U.S.A together.  If she was with Alexa she felt happy, that was the surest thing in her life right now.

After the sun lost its warmth the girls went back to their room to shower and dress for dinner.  Rachel showered first, leaving Alexa free to got out onto the balcony and call Helena.

‘Hey sweetheart it’s Lex,’ she said when she heard Helena answer.

‘Hi how is sunny Mallorca?’ asked Helena.

‘Beautiful but it doesn’t compare to your place.’

‘Soon to be our place,’ corrected Helena.  ‘Did you tell Rachel about us yet?’ she couldn’t help asking so quickly, it was all she thought about.

‘No, but I plan to do it over dinner tonight,’ said Alexa, trying to hide her irritation at Helena’s pressure.

‘Well you said that last night,’ replied Helena.

Alexa knew that to be true but resented the implication.  Last night had been the beach barbeqcue night.  Rachel had looked so happy and they’d danced and drunk cocktails late into the night.  If this was to be the end of their friendship then that was as good a night as any to remember it by.

‘Helena it doesn’t exactly make a difference whether it’s last night of tonight does it?’

Helena was having a shitty day at work, with the issues between them it was easy to take that out on Alexa.  ‘It wouldn’t if I thought you were ever going to tell her.  Why is it every time I speak to you I feel like I’m interrupting your romantic vacation?’