“You know Al… Lara was my first real girlfriend and I fucked things up….”

“And you want to make it up to her now?”

“It’s not like that!” Dana was now screaming out of exasperation

“That’s how I see it and worst…. How I feel it” Alice turned her back on Dana and asked “Why can’t this work?”

Dana didn’t have an answer

“OK…. well, it’s not that I can force you to be with me anyway…”

“Friends?” Dana felt dumb for asking that but she didn’t know what else to say, she was aware that she was hurting Alice deeper than what she can imagined but she didn’t want to lose Alice.

“Please Dana….” Alice faced Dana again and said this sarcastically even though she was sobbing.  Dana took Alice’s hand pulled her close for a hug and left.

 “You can tell me the truth Dane, are you in love with Lara? You know I’m not going to judge you”

“No Bette, I swear…. But it’s that she and I broke up that gave me the strength to come out because I knew I owed it to her, I had lost her because of this and that was my way to say I love you and I’m doing this for you more than for me” she looked away for a moment and then she continued “I didn’t mean to hurt Alice, I love her, not just as a friend but I can’t be with her now, I feel like a have a chance with Lara and I wanna take it… I know that I’m being selfish but that’s what I want to do”

Bette smiled a little, she knew that she had to be supportive to Dana even though Dana wasn’t doing the right thing and she indeed was being selfish.  “It’s ok Dana, you know Alice will be get over this, if not soon some time soon, she still have me and the girls and you also have us”

“Thanks Bette, I needed to hear this” she hugged Bette but she didn’t feel relieved yet.

“Explain it to me Shane, please, because I just don’t get it!”  Both women were at Alice’s, Shane had come because Bette told her about Dana’s and Alice’s break up.  Dana had come to Bette to talk to her.