“You still staring off into space dreamy head?”  Lara asked, waving to an empty chair and Alice nodded with a grin.  She no longer thought of Lara as the enemy, instead as someone who was keeping Dana happy and well fed.  How things had changed in the span of a week, now she was ok with being alone, she found herself being happy for the first time in a long time.

            “I am I feel like such ***** when I sit there and think about those little hands and feet.”  Alice said with joy, and Lara reached over and squeezed her hand.  Alice had done a total 180 turn in the last week, she was even starting to look better and was putting on the weight that she’d lost.  Lara sat for a moment, she was trying to figure out how to tell Alice something, and she watched Alice and then said in a soft voice.

            “I have to ask you something sort of serious Alice.”  She paused, and Alice blinked, staring at her openly.  “Dana told me everything, and I just wanted you to know something before we go to Tina and Rosita’s tomorrow for the babies home coming.  It’s something that is going to change a lot of things for everyone.”  Alice narrowed her eyes, she leaned in closer, please don’t break Dana‘s heart Alice thought to herself.  Not after all of this heartbreak and angst. 

            “Ok, am I going to like it?”  Alice asked, and Lara shrugged, a crimson blush coming to her cheeks as she said.

            “I am such a geek; I want you to know that I’m going to ask Dana to marry me tonight.”  Lara waited for the backlash of this, she knew how Alice had reacted to Tonya and Dana getting married, how would she react to her asking Dana to be with her, forever.

            “Whoo hoo!”  Alice said and Lara was stunned, so stunned in fact that she let out a sharp barking chuckle. 

            “Um, ok.  Not the reaction I was expecting at all.”  Alice smiled, she wanted Dana happy and Lara made Dana happy.  She was ok with that; she’d find someone someday, just not today.