“What the ***** happened?” Tonya demanded to know, pushing her unruly hair out of her face as she stood up, sheet wrapped around her.

“I don’t know!  What did you do to me?” Alice shot back, cowering behind her pillow.

Tonya’s mouth dropped open. “What did I do to you?  What’s that supposed to mean?”

“To get me to sleep with you?  Cause you know it wouldn’t happen normally,” Alice retorted.  “Did you slip something into my drink?”

“I seem to recall you didn’t feel that way last night,” Tonya snapped, placing one hand on her hip.  “As a matter of fact, you seemed to enjoy yourself.”

“You just thought I was enjoying myself,” Alice yelled.  “In reality, I hated it!”

Tonya smirked.  “You must be a fabulous actress, then.  I especially loved the, ‘Oh, you make me feel so good, Ton-Ton!’ line you yelled out.  Oh, and did you know that when you *****, you squeak like a mouse?”

“I do not!” Alice shouted, her face coloring. 

“I just gave you the best ***** you’ve ever had and this is how you thank me?” Tonya responded, pulling the sheet tighter to her body.  “No wonder Dana left you.”

Alice frowned.  “Now that was a low blow.”

Tonya looked away a moment.  “I know,” she admitted quietly.  “I’m – I’m sorry.”

Alice was taken aback.  “I didn’t know that you even knew how to really apologize.”

“It’s a rare occurrence, so you’d better write it down on your calendar,” Tonya barked sarcastically.

“Look, obviously this was a mistake,” Alice said slowly, trying to be reasonable.

“Obviously,” Tonya snorted.

“Look, let’s just pretend this never happened,” Alice offered.

“You mean like forget it ever happened?” Tonya asked.

Alice sighed.  “Yes, same thing.  Whatever.  Just erase it from your memory, okay?  Deal?”

Tonya eyed her warily and then hesitantly stuck out a hand to quickly shake Alice’s.  After the handshake ended, they both quickly pulled their respective hands away and wiped them on the sheet and pillow, as if ridding themselves of germs.

“It never happened,” Tonya said firmly.

“Never happened,” Alice echoed in agreement.

They stood awkwardly a moment.  “Well, I’ll just let myself out,” Tonya said, scooping up the clothes and heading toward the bathroom to get dressed.

“Please do,” Alice called after her, sinking onto the bed and pulling the pillow close to her, hugging it.  Several minutes later, she heard a toilet flush and then footsteps.  Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Tonya standing in the doorway hesitantly.  The woman opened her mouth, and then snapped it shut while shaking her head, obviously thinking better of it.  Without another word, Tonya left.

As the door shut softly behind Tonya, Alice threw the pillow across the room as hard as she could, feeling a small bit of satisfaction at the thump it made when it bounced off the wall.  Holy *****, what did I do?  And I thought I was depressed beforenow I’ll be in therapy for life!

Laughing and crying at the same time, Alice curled herself into a ball and buried her face into the pillow until she fell back into a fitful sleep.