“You’re welcome.”  John said as he picked up the phone “Tina, Jo is here to see you.  Jo you can go right in.”

Jo knocked on the door and walked in to Tina’s office.

“Hey Tina, I thought I’d take you up on that offer of lunch.”

“You didn’t have a choice.”

“Yeah, I figured, you wanna drive or should we take my car?”

“Let’s take mine, that way no one will take your spot while we’re out.”

“Ok then, you ready to go.”

“Yep, I’ll just grab my purse.”

Ten minutes later they were walking in to the café

“Tina, over here.”  shouted Alice

“Who are those people sat on our table Alice?”

“I have no idea, they’ve been here since breakfast and won’t move.”

“Sorry, hi Jo, nice to see you again.”

“You too Alice.”

“Ok ladies I am just gonna use the bathroom.” Said Tina

Alice and Jo were left at the table staring at each other.  They both started talking at the same time.

“Look Jo”, “Look Alice”

They both laughed, Jo spoke “Sorry Alice, you mind if I go first.”

“Sure”

“I’m sorry if I was rude yesterday, I didn’t mean to be.  I was just a little shocked to see Helena again, it kind of threw me off.  It wasn’t the best first impression you had of me.  I just want you to know that I know how much you care about Helena and I promise you that I will do my very best not to hurt her.”

“That’s good to know.  But I think it’s me who should actually apologize.  I was very rude yesterday.  Helena is my best friend, and when I saw her run away from you, I assumed that you must have done something pretty bad to make her react like that.  She told me this morning what happened between the two of you and I would like to apologize for the way I acted.  But you have to know that if you do hurt her, I will have to kill you.”

“I know Alice, and thank you.  So can we start again?”