“Dana, it’s me.  I’m sorry about what happened at the Planet earlier.  I love you and I trust you,” Alice said on Dana’s machine.

Dana looked into Alice’s eyes, smiled and then rose from her slump on the couch and kissed her.  She removed Alice’s shirt.

Beep

“Dana, call my office we need to talk about the European Clay court season.”

Beep

“Dane, it’s Shane.  Hope you got home ok, and not feeling too fucked up.  Look I got some info on Alice’s date.  Gonna make you feel better, if that could be possible,” Shane chuckled on the machine. “I’ll try your cell.”

Alice pulled up Dana’s head, “Man you were jealous.”

“I was not.”

“No just a drunken lunatic,” Alice added.

Dana went back to sucking on Alice’s nipple as she pushed Alice onto the couch and got more comfortable.

Beep

“Dana, it’s Lara.  I still have your keys.  I moved your car so you wouldn’t keep getting tickets.  And now I have to menu plan with that woman you went home with last night.  Just get your keys because I don’t…

Dana leaped off the couch and shut off the answering machine.

“The woman you went home with?” Alice questioned.

“No, no,” Dana tried.

“What?” Play it again, the whole thing!” Alice demanded.

Dana pressed some buttons.

“Message deleted,” her answering machine said.

Alice slapped Dana in the face.  Dana held her face as Alice put her shirt back on and started to look for her stuff.  She located her jeans and started to dress.

“Would you wait?” Dana asked.

“Why, so you could lie to me?”

“No.”

“You said you took a cab home, I asked you about Lara you said nothing happened all the time you were withHelena?  I don’t want to look at your face, never mind hearing any bullshit.”

“So you hit me?” Dana said.

“Sorry, just let me just go.”

“Nothing happened,” Dana tried to pull Alice into her arms.

“All right, what was Lara’s message about?” Alice asked.

“Wellit’s kind of hard to say,” Dana mumbled.

Alice walked over to Dana’s bookshelf and picked up a book and handed it to her.  Dana looked down at the dictionary.

“There are a lot of words in there, find some.”