“I’ll bet you are”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“You tell me, you’re the one with the big smile on your face.”

Helena laughed “nothing happened Kit, we had a really nice evening and we are going on a date tonight.”

“Good for you, it’s about time you got yourself back out there.  By the way Alice wants to know if you are in here.”

“God, I could do with out that this morning. I better go out there and face her, get this over with.”

“Are you sure, I could tell her your not here.”

“You could, but she probably saw my car outside.  I’ll see you in a little while.”

“Good luck.”

Helena walked out to be met with a glare from Alice

“So you are alive then?”

“Don’t be so dramatic Alice.”

Helena sat opposite her friend.

“Why didn’t you answer your phone?  I called you like 10 times.”

“Alice, I was catching up with an old friend.  I turned the phone on silent so we wouldn’t be disturbed.”

“She is more than an old friend Helena, otherwise you wouldn’t have run away from her when you saw her yesterday.”

“You’re right she is more than an old friend, and I hope that she can be more then a friend now.  We are going out tonight and are going to take it slow and see what happens.”

“So who is she?”

“She was my first Alice.  We were together for almost 4 years and we went our separate ways when we finished university.  Yesterday was the first time I had seen her in all that time and I didn’t know what to say and I just panicked.”

“Why haven’t you told me about her before, and how did Bette and Tina know who she was?”

“I don’t know, it just never came up with us and I had dinner with Bette and Tina a couple of weeks ago and they asked me my coming out story and as they had plied me with alcohol I was somewhat loose lipped and it just came out.”

“So I guess we don’t know everything about each other then!”