Bette firmly shook hands with Andrew, welcoming the couple to the exhibit. Tina made funny faces at Alice, desperately wanting to mean Andrew was hot. Alice smiled at her friend, feeling better to see Tina and Bette doing ok. Well, at least when on display.

“Hey, isn’t that Dana?” Andrew asked pointing out the couple walking towards them. Actually Tonya was almost dragging Dana to them with the usual over exaggerated excitement she always possessed. Alice involuntarily held Andrew’s hand tighter. Dana smiled to both of them weakly.

“I’m Tonya”, Tonya offered her hand to Andrew without breaking the firm grip on Dana’s arm. “Andrew”, the young man shook Tonya’s hand kindly. Dana and Alice tried really hard not to make eye contact but still were not able to completely stop the stare they threw now and then from one to the other.

“How are you, Dana?” Andrew asked, offering his hand to her too while breaking the contact of his other hand with Alice‘s, only to put it on her waist caressing it gently. Dana shook his hand with her left hand awkwardly because Tonya had the right tightly captured in her own. Under the unexplainable looks of Alice, Dana didn’t mind this at all.

Dana’s fake smiled faded slightly when she noticed how Andrew touched Alice and how she seemed to enjoy it. She felt herself getting angry and strangely jealous with this scene before her.

“So How lucky are you, right Andy?” she started to speak. “Came to meet a brunette but went home with a hot blonde!” She continued with weird facial expressions trying to add some humor to her insult.

“Dana!!!” Alice cried out, she was unable to believe what she heard right out of her best friend’s mouth. “Well, I” Andrew tried to answer but apparently being the gentleman he was, he didn’t know how to answer that without building up the tension. As for Tonya, she was trying desperately to catch the attention of someone across the saloon and she didn’t care how strangely her girlfriend acted .

“What?” Dana looked innocent. “I was just making chit chat. Besides, isn’t it the truth, Andrew? I was merely suggesting that you got what you came for”

Andrew stood there speechless, while Tonya tried to drag Dana along with her. She frantically called “Melissa!” to a group of people and left her girlfriend there when Dana didn’t budge.

Alice was getting mad with Dana. All the attraction, tension and sexual desire faded away when Dana got ugly with Andrew. And it was so out of her character.

Andrew smiled nervously, knowing perfectly well that he stood in the middle of another ***** drama. He kissed Alice‘s cheek: “I saw a few friends down there, I’m gonna say Hi to them. Ok darling?”

“Yeah” Alice said while Dana quoted “Darling” after Andrew.

“What the ***** Dane? What’s wrong with you?” Alice shouted, her voice luckily drowned by the loud music.

“What? I was making a conversation” Dana played the fool, knowing that she was rude and out of line.

“You were totally attacking my boyfriend!!!”

“Your boy friend?!!!!” Dana could not believe what she heard. She tried to stop the anger capturing all over her body cell by cell but failed badly. Andrew was her love’s boyfriend?

“What? You’re turning from dirty bi to clean hetero now?” Dana laughed trying very hard to keep her stare on Alice.

“What’s wrong with you Dana? What’s gotten into”

“Why are you with Andrew?” Dana cut in, keeping a serious face.

“Why are you with Tonya?” Alice asked back with a dangerous stare.

Dana narrowed her eyes: “At least mine is not an empty *****!!!”

Alice sighed and turned back to leave Dana, not believing the words she just heard from her geeky best friend.

Dana drank a glass of champagne in one gulp while watching her best friend walked away from her. She knew she was totally out of line.

TBC