And here she was now, outside Helena’s front door. She had gotten worried about her new friend’s sudden departure and since she could not bare going back to her own apartment to wait for Dana’s dinner with Lara to end she went here. It was possibly a mistake, but Alice was willing to take her chances. Helena had broken down in front of her one time before and the blonde genuinely felt that the heiress should not be alone when she was like that. She had apparently gotten some bad news, and Alice thought it had something to do with her children. Helena had mentioned that she was in a custody battle with her ex wife. A woman in her mid fifties, closely viewing Alice from head to toe, opened the door.

“Alice Pieszecki. You just spoke to me two minutes ago.” Alice joked, referring to the phone at the gate. The woman did not seem amused.

“Ms. Peabody is upstairs. I don’t believe she’s expecting you, Ms?”

“Pie-sze-cki.” Alice spelled out her name and walked through the door. “Upstairs?” She asked. The stern woman just nodded and did not let Alice out of her sight. The journalist began climbing the stairs, and was soon made aware of loud music playing in one of the rooms. ‘Green Day?’ she thought to herself. That was not a something she expected Helena to listen to. But than again, it was not the first time the heiress surprised her. Alice banged loudly on the door, but did not get an answer. Helena probably had not heard her because the music was really very loud. When she opened the door she was not exactly surprised to see Helena Peabody with a big drink in her hand. She was though slightly surprised to see the otherwise so dignified woman completely involved with the lyrics of the song.

“Stranded…lost inside myself. My own worst friend my own closest enemy. Branded…maladjusted. Never trusted anyone let alone myself I must insist on being a pessimist I’m a loner in a catastrophic mind. Elected the rejected I perfected the science of the idiot. No meaning…no healing. Self loathing freak and introverted deviot”

If Alice had not known the lyrics by heart she would never been able to hear what she was singing. Because Helena sang, she sang so loud she almost drowned the actual music. Alice called out to her several times but her voice just seemed to vanish in the big room that seemed to be an office. In the middle of a drum solo Helena spotted Alice and ran to her.