Alice knew she was being selfish, she wasn’t the only one with a lot to lose, but she couldn’t keep living like this. It was killing her and killing her relationship with Dana. “Shane I can’t live like this. I have to set things straight, and live with the consequences I feel like I’m constantly lying to her. I’m sorry I have to do this.”

Shane stood at the door watching her friend leave, wondering if she was about to lose the two best friends she had ever had. She wiped the tears from her eyes thinking this hurt more then her breakup with Dori.

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Alice walked quietly into her home looking around, it was strange how foreign her home felt. She became stranger walking around in a fairytale that was no longer hers.

It was almost midnight when she finally came home. After leaving Shane’s, Alice found herself drinking trying to work up the courage for what she was about to do.

She opened Joey’s bedroom door and couldn’t help but smile at the sight of her son. While he laid there sleeping, Alice noticed how much he looked like her brother. Fair skin, blond hair and bed head that seem to run in her family to the extreme.

God she loved her son, though he looked very much like a Pieszecki somehow he seemed to have missed the other traits that plague her family. He was opened, and trusting and even though still young he seemed to possess a self confidence that was rare in her family.

Alice closed Joey’s door knowing it was time to face Dana.

Dana was sitting up in their bed reading over stats, and personal information of the guest stars that was going to be on her sport’s show when Alice finally walked in. Dana could smell the alcohol on Alice before she even neared the bed and wondered what would cause her to go out drinking on a weeknight.

In their younger days Alice and Dana would stay out several nights a week, but since becoming a couple, and especially after adopting Joey, Alice and Dana’s nights on the town had all but disappeared. Other than an occasion night of meeting with friends, Dana couldn’t think of the last time they had gone out drinking.