Previously…

"Bette, why don’t you go help Shane," Tina said finally.

"O.K. I would be of no use in here anyways," Bette agreed.

Everyone laughed. Shane and Bette went into the living room and Shane put the tape in the VCR.

TBC…

"So Shane, what’s up with you and Alice?" Bette asked.

Shane turned around and smiled, "You noticed that, right?"

"Yeah," Bette smiled back. "So when did you two hook up?"

"We haven’t really hooked up yet, but I know I can’t live without Alice in my life," Shane confessed.

"When did this epiphany occur?" Bette asked.

"Well, after Dana passed away," Shane swallowed hard, "I had this dream that everyone was gone, but me. I did nothing but have sex and cut hair. I was all alone and tired of sex. I had no friends or family and everything was going bad. I heard a voice tell me I would die old and alone if I didn’t grow up and settle down."

"Grow up and settle down?" Bette asked amazed. "What do you supposed that meant?"

"I don’t know Bette," Shane continued. "I always thought I acted grown up, mature, but I guess my subconscious is telling me otherwise. I guess I was feeling guilty for what I did to Carmen. Anyway, in my dream there were pictures of each of us and on the back of the pictures was written how and when each one died. I read each picture starting with Dana. She died of Cancer. Jenny died from suicide. Kit died of heart failure. You died from stress. Tina died pining for you. Alice died from a drug overdose. My picture said I died from sexually transmitted diseases, but I was put to death from spreading the diseases instead of dying from the diseases itself."

"Damn," Bette said stunned. "What did you do then?"

"Well," Shane answered, "I woke up and remembered everything about the dream. It was so surreal. It really shook me up. I stopped sleeping around, I had myself tested, and I stopped doing hard drugs."

"But you still smoke?" Bette asked.

"Yes," Shane answered. "I think that’s the one thing that keeps my nerves at bay sometimes."

"But you still haven’t told me how that put you and Alice together," Bette stated.