Francesca ”Could you excuse us?  We’re trying to eat.”

Lara ”Sure.”

Lara walks back to the kitchen.  She waits with her arms crossed as Marina and Francesca continue on.

Marina ”So?”

Francesca ”I think…”

Francesca takes another bite, finishing off her plate.

Francesca ”Lara!”

Lara returns to the table.

Francesca gives the nod to Marina.  Marina looks to Lara.

Marina ”When can you start?”

Lara smiles.

The Planet.

It is the next day.  It is a good day for Lara to be there as she is introduced to the rest of the Planet’s staff as Dana, Alice, Shane, Bette, and Tina are elsewhere.  The elsewhere in question is a music video shoot that Kit is taking part in with rapper Slim Daddy.  For Lara, this is where she wants to be.  It is a new day, a new challenge and now a new role, that being Chef of The Planet.  She is to start soon, but first there is another moment she wishes to be a part of.  For her, it is imperative that she be there at The Planet for something not involving work.  For Lara, it is something personal and it is something Marina understands.

The Planet, the next day.

As Alice and Lis sit at a table together, Alice looks up from the spirulina shake Lis has brought her and sees Dana arrive with Lara, heading for a table where a young man named Andrew sits patiently.  This is the blind date Dana’s mother has set her up on.  Alice and Lis now look on with Alice very intrigued.  Dana points to Andrew with Lara walking beside her.

Dana ”Andrew?”

Andrew ”Yes.  Dana?”

Dana ”Hiiii!  Oh, by the way, this is Lara.”

Dana and Lara hold hands, confusing Andrew.

Lara ”This is the blind date?”

Dana ”Yep!”

Lara ”Okay.  I’m gonna go to the kitchen.  While I’m in there, just think of allllllll the things I wanna do to you on this table as soon as he leaves.”

Dana is initially startled, but that quickly goes away.  She looks at Andrew.

Andrew ”Ummmm…”

Lara ”I don’t think she told him.”

Dana ”That I’m gay?”

Andrew appears very confused.

Andrew ”Wait…you’re…?”

Dana ”A lesbian.”

Andrew looks at Dana and Lara.  He suddenly begins to grin, a perverse fantasy suddenly running through his mind.

Lara ”I really don’t know why you’re smiling.”

Lara places both hands on the table, looking directly at Andrew.  Alice at the other table with Lis is frozen in position, still sucking on the straw of the spirulina shake.

Lara ”She’s mine.  I’m not sharing.  And even if I did…it wouldn’t be with somebody who brings nothing we want to the table.  It wouldn’t be with a man.  Because that’s all you are.  We’re actual lesbians…not those girls you probably pay by the minute to watch on your internet.  I have no interest in you…and my girlfriend…has no interest in you.”

Andrew’s smile has faded, looking up at a very intimidating female redhead and her piercing eyebrows.

Lara ”I think you need to leave now.”

Lara slowly backs away with Dana now standing before him, her arms crossed.  This is her moment.

Dana ”…So step off, bitch.”

Alice immediately spits out her spirulina shake, which now winds up all over Lis’s shirt.  Lis shrieks.

Lis ”This is my favorite buttoned shirt!  You have no control.”

Alice ”And Lisa…you have no girlfriend.”

Lis ”What?”

Alice smiles.

Alice ”As my friend just said…step off, bitch.”

Lis, feeling embarrassed, hastily exits with Alice standing.

Alice ”And I’m gonna eat some red meat to celebrate!”

Meanwhile, Andrew has now managed to shuffle away from The Planet, back to wherever he was from to begin with.  Alice looks at Dana and Lara, who look at each other and then Alice.

Lara ”Now that wasn’t so hard, was it?”

Dana tries to hold in her laugh, but cannot.  Dana’s laughter becomes contagious for Lara and Alice.