“Its been an odd morning “ Tina agreed “And its just 9 O’clock “

“So – what else is happening in your life Alice ?” Shane asked – one of them was going to have to get Alice

to confess what she had done “You know that you can talk to any of us about anything “

Alice assessed Shane’s comment and looked at Tina

“I am not sure I would want to talk to some of you “

No one could have failed to get the remark or who it was directed at. Bette frowned – that was a comment that wasn’t called for and she wasn’t happy. Tina pulled a face – well if Alice wanted to make public her

dislike of her that was fine by her. She had admitted that she wasn’t Alice’s biggest fan but she was

grown up enough to be friends with her for the sake of Bette and Shane

“Come on Alice – who are you seeing – you know that you want to tell us “ Helena said

“No – I don’t want to tell you – its going really well and I don’t want anyone to jinx it”

“So we are a jinx are we ?” Bette asked – she was beginning to get irritated by Alice

Alice was about to answer when another group of women came in and taking one look at Alice they

started laughing

“Man she has some balls “

“Not from what I saw “

Another pearl of laughter. By now it was obvious that everyone was getting uncomfortable.

Tina knew that lesbians loved being in each other’s business the whole time and it was likely that

everyone who had received the infamous email had passed it on to everyone she knew who in turn had

done the self and same. Alice had a reasonably high profile – she had started to do a radio show on a very

gay orientated station and she rarely pulled her punched with what she said and who she talked about on the show. Tina hated the show and had only heard it a couple of times but she knew that a lot of lesbians who worked for Phoenix did listen to it and were usually talking about whatever insane topic that Alice had brought to the airways.