Alice was shocked to see Tina sitting in her kitchen early that morning. Alice had stayed up most of the night comforting the hurt Tina who was in pain from her breakup with Bette. Although the night was horrible for both Tina and Alice, Tina because she was devastated and Alice for seeing her friend devastated, Alice was still kind of glad that Tina got her mind off of Dana.

Alice: hey T, how you feeling this morning?

Tina: ohhey AL, ummmto be honestnot too well.

Alice walked over to Tina and pulled a chair to sit close to her. Alice started to softly carress Tinas back.

Alice: well, that is understandable. Is there anything I can do? You want me to make some coffee, teawhatever you want Tjust tell me.

Tina: Alice, you have been so good to me, I couldnt ask for anymoreI have to try to get my mind off of thismaybe that would help.

Alice sat there quietly thinking back to her respond to Danas invite. Well, it was not necessarily Danas invite, it was Tonya.

Tina: how about you, how have you been doing?

Alice: oh me, oh Im fine, more than fine, I am most fine!

Tina: I may be depressed, but I can always tell when something is on your mindspill it.

Alice: I cant really talk about it. Its kind ofcomplicated.

Tina: it cant be more complicated then dating a ***** identified man.

Alice: glad to see your sense of humour is still intact.

Tina: come on Al, its going to get out of you some time, might as well let it out now.

Alice hesitates, she wants to tell Tina so badly. But, if this relationship with Dana does not go through, then Tina will know, and it wont only be weird for Dana and Alice to sit together, but it would be weird for Tina too, and Tina was going through everything, Alice didnt want to add anymore stress on Tina. But then Tina did want to know, she wanted to get her mind off things.

Alice was deep in thought and did not even realize that her phone was ringing. Tina did not want to break her concentration on whatever it was, so she stood up and grabbed the phone.