On hearing these words Alice opened her eyes and in front of her Dana stood looking so frightened. This pulled at one of the many heart strings attached to Alice‘s heart with Dana’s name written all over them. Alice realised Dana too was scared, was petrified even, and she knew too well how that felt. She only ran because she thought this conversation was going to happen in the morning, and it would have started on Alice‘s terms, so she was in control, she would have been able to think about what she was going to say. That now had been completely thrown out of the window.

“I know” Is all that came out of Alice‘s mouth, while wiping her hair out of her eyes nervously.

Dana quickly looked up

“What? You know, but how SHANE. I will bloody kill her” Dana removed her arms away from the door and stood back 

“Here I am shitting it finally trying to tell you how I feel, scared about your reaction. All this time I didn’t want you to find out, I didn’t want to mess us up, so I hid my feelings from you for SO LONG. It was becoming harder and harder each day for me, not telling you how I felt but I didn’t because I didn’t want to ruin our friendship, the one friendship that I cherish more than any other. And then Shane goes and tells you. What the *****!”    

Alice stood looking deep into Dana’s eyes realising more and more each second that Dana had the same insecurities she did, the same reasons why she kept her feelings so wrapped up, Alice knew exactly how Dana was feeling she knew they each wanted the other so bad but didn’t have the confidence to let the other one know as this friendship they shared was so special the fear of losing it was like no other fear, no other fear at all.

She couldn’t just stand there watching Dana go through this, she had to let her know she was right there with her, feeling the exact same things. Alice had to let Dana know she too had fallen for her best friend. She also didn’t want her to think Shane had betrayed her confidence, but she found herself not being able to get a word in edge ways, Dana who was becoming more and more high rate continued going into an unexpected rant.