She grabbed her stuff and went to the locker room. Taking a cold shower, she thought how she would approach to Alice and what she would say. She carefully planned where to stop if this talk got too complicated and weird.

Shane didn’t answered her phone. Alice was very concerned about her and her Hollywood wife. Shane didn’t talk much about her personal life and very aggressive when she was asked about it. Alice felt that this time Shane was falling hard. She wanted to help her so much in such dark days, to support her, to warn her about this woman; how there was no happy ending in her story.

Shane was Alice‘s last chance for distraction from Dana daydreams and it blew. Paul was not in his office and luckily his schedule seemed busy with a meeting that would last until 7 pm. She made up a lie to insert on her calendar about visiting one of those Health Clubs and turned off her PC. Grabbing her purse, she stormed out straight to her home.

Dana decided to act casual so she went right though the one place she would likely see Alice: The Planet. She chose a far table away from the crowd. Buying her favorite frappe, she sat at that table, he back facing the entrance door. She wanted to hide the fact that she went there specifically to see Alice so she prayed that Alice saw her and came over.

Alice had no intentions to see Dana until the Provocations night which was a formality she could not escape from. How could she survive seeing Dana without jumping all over her? And then there was that ***** ***** Tonya; someone she couldn’t stand to see Dana with.

While driving through the Planet’s street, she saw Dana’s Subaru neatly parked near the caf. She stopped her Mini for a moment to think whether to ignore Dana’s presence and deal with her later or go there and talk to her like nothing happened. Knowing that it had to be done soon, she parked her car wearing her most casual self.

Dana sat there all alone thinking about Alice and what to say to her. She played with the crme over her frappe with the pipe. Picturing Alice before her, she started to fantasize about her.

TBC