“Hmmm …”

“What?”

“Well, I was just wondering if possibly your friend Tina ran to Henry out of some sense of uncertainty surrounding your illness.”

“No, completely unrelated, but thanks for playing with me. So she’s not happy with Henry … not really his fault. She is, after all, a lesbian. She brought some very annoying woman to a dinner party at Bette’s the other night. That one won’t last either.”

“She seems to be about as good at relationships as you are at dancing.”

Dana shot her another angry look.

“You may be my guide, but mocking me is so not a part of that. Now, where was I?”

“Tina’s latest relationship’s certainty of failure.”

“Right. So Bette’s been seeing Jodi who I absolutely love, but Bette is being her usual controlling self. She means well, but she freaks out when she loses her sense of power in a situation.”

“Who’s that over there?”

“Jenny. Don’t get me started about how frustrating she can be. You know the type, she’ll say something that you think she means to be deep and insightful, but you just don’t get what she’s talking about and you end up feeling kind of stupid, but it turns out that’s just crazy. She’s just gotten weirder the past couple of years. She was stalking some journalist who gave her book a bad review and then she had a short story published that she claimed was fiction, but was totally about our whole group. Now it’s being made into a movie. She’s going to be impossible to live with.”

“Good thing that you don’t need to worry about that.”

Dana sighed.

“Really, the whole joking thing that you’re trying, it’s not working for you.”

“I wasn’t trying to be funny. It is true that you will not have to live with her.”

“Right,” she sighed again. “Back to the group.  Helena has apparently lost her mind since she lost her money. Right after I died her mom cut her off to try and teach her some kind of lesson. The problem is that Helena, who I always thought was really intelligent, is apparently good at nothing other than playing poker and frankly a lot of that has been luck. I look at her now and she’s a completely different woman that I knew.”