Dana could feel the tears, try as she might she couldn’t stop them. She felt her heart tightened as the shock and hurt finally hit her. Alice had an affair, but not only had she had an affair she had it with their best friend. Someone Dana considered family, like a sister she would do anything for. She was numb as her world started to crash down around her.

Dana could feel Alice arms reach around her trying to offer support and comfort, all Dana could do was shrug her off, wondering how Alice even dare try to touch her. “Get the fuck out of my room Alice.” Alice didn’t want to leave it like this, she wanted Dana to tell her they would talk about it, work it out. “Dana can we talk about it?” Dana just looked dumbfounded at Alice. Did she really think she could tell her something like this, then expect them to talk about it and make it all right in one night? “Alice I don’t even want to look at you right now, I suggest you gets some of your things and move into the guestroom, maybe and I mean only maybe I’ll be able to talk to you in the morning.”

Dana watched Alice collect a few of her things before leaving the bedroom. She couldn’t believe the hollow feeling she felt, she had lost everything. Her happy life, her love, her sense of home, her best friend. She would have never imagined that she and Alice would be in this shape at this time of their life.

She thought about Shane and the betrayal. Shane was like a kid sister to her. The sister who march to her own drummer but you couldn’t help but love and be proud of. How could they do this to her? She didn’t understand, as she laid down and cried about all she had lost that night.

Alice walked into the guestroom. She was struck by the musty smell in the room. It wasn’t a smell of uncleanliness, but a smell of unuse. Nobody stayed in this room with the acception of her mother for the occasional visit. The bedspread was slightly dated, something she and Dana had talked about replacing, but never got around to doing. She hated this room, and everything it represented at the present time.