“I love you too, Al.”

“Fine. How was it?” I get what I’m sure is a completely starry eyed look on my face. I can already feel my face begin to flush.

“It was great. Perfect, even. She knew just where to touch me, and I her. It was…just….she’s just I don’t know…..an angel. My angel.”

“Wow. You really are in love…….. That was the worst attempt at poetry I’ve ever heard.”

“***** you, Alice.”

“How many times do I have to say it, Porter. Been there, done that.” Ok at least things are as they should be with Alice. As crazy as she is, this is what I expect from her.

“But you know, we had a little fight a while ago.”

“I heard that too.” To that, my eyes got big. What we were talking about was no one’s business. Plus, I don’t think Tina’s comfortable enough to let her demons loose on the world.

“I didn’t hear the exact word, BP, but I heard yelling. And it sounded like it was nothing I could make fun of you for.”

“Thanks, Al It was nothing huge. Just a little misunderstanding. It’s fine now.”

“Misunderstandings so soon after you guys started to go out, what’s up?” She asked genuinely concerned. I kind of want the smart ***** Alice to come back. She could at least distract me from what’s going on.

“Al, you have to understand that this is all very new for her. And after all that’s happened in the past month, I don’t blame her for being a little skiddish around certain things.

“Yeah, but if she slept with you last night and tells you that she loves you, shouldn’t she be comfortable around you at least to talk about what scares her?”

“Even if it’s me?”

“Especially if it’s you.” She says pointedly, taking the last grape off of my plate.

“I don’t know. You didn’t really see her in there, she was really freaking out.” We didn’t hear the shower go off, or Tina pad barefoot into the kitchen.

“Who was babe?” She turns to me, wearing a robe that although tied is showing off a good deal of cleavage as she leans down to kiss me.