Dana sat onto her recliner after she took a quick shower. Mr Piddles was looking at her way with meaning in his eyes while Dana tried to dry her hair with the towel. “I know what you’re thinking Mr P.” she frowned. Mr P simply moved his tail up and down as if enjoying Dana talking to him.

The red light was blinking on the phone, Dana got up to listen to the messages even though she knew they were all from Tonya’s.

“You have four new messages” the machine announced.

“Where are you pookie pie? You don’t answer your cell, did you leave it on vibrate again? Call me ASAP, OK?” Dana noticed that Tonya had a very unpleasant voice over the phone. Loud and commanding

“It’s me again honey! Still not home yet? I missed you. I can’t stand to be away from you baby. Please think again us moving in together OK? I love you.”

A mocking laugh escaped Dana’s lips while still drying her hair with the towel.

“Hey it’s me!” A very warm but tired sound introduced itself to the machine. Dana instantly stopped and went over to phone to get a better hearing. “Ammm Just wanted to thank you For tonight, yeah For the practice, I mean. It was wei- goooood.” An uneasy laugh was heard. “Talk to you later. Ammm Whatever Bye”

“Beeeeeeeeeeeeeep”

The last message started, it was Tonya again. “It’s me calling to say goodnight sweetheart. I guess you’re partying with your wild friends.” Her sound saddened. “You’ll never go partying without me baby, ever. I’ll never leave you alone. Call me after the Subaru photoshooting, OK?” Somehow her voice cheered up once again and found its disturbing tone with the ‘Subaru’ word. “Bye. Love you!”    

Dana sat by the phone to rewind to Alice‘s message. She needed to analyze her voice. Was she sad? Worried? Freaked out? Why wouldn’t she be? Dana had to do some damage control here but how?

Stephanie a.k.a. Ralph had a very unusual influence in Dana’s life. Because of her, Dana knew she was *****. Two teenagers were madly in love until Steph’s family stormingly interfered. Then Dana was heart broken. Not only because she lost her lover, the one she cared about the most but her best friend too. A friend she confided in. A friend she opened herself to completely.