“Oh my god, it’s not coming is it, did your water break?!” She asked in alarm. Tina chuckled softly.

“No Dana, you won’t have to deliver a baby just yet. She just kicked.”

“She? Aww when did you find out?”

 “Just this morning”. Tina beamed over at Bette who was barking down the phone at James. “Can you tell she’s a little stressed out?”

“Uh I think the whole of West Hollywood can hear she’s stressed”. Dana replied giggling and taking a slurp of her drink. Her phone buzzed and vibrated in her pocket, it was a text from Alice. ‘Home now, in the bath relaxing. See you when you get here. Love Al xxx’ Dana snapped the phone shut and finished off her smoothie with a gulp. “I gotta get going Tee, call me if you need a break,” she said winking as she pushed in her chair. With a wave to Kit and a wave that was half returned by Bette, Dana was off to meet her girlfriend and cook some well needed dinner.

The Home of Cooper

Cooper sat on the floor, his back resting against the couch as he focused on stealing yet another car in the virtual world of grand theft auto. His two roommates were opening more cans of beer in the adjacent kitchen. “So what’s going on with that hot chick at your work?” Ryan asked his friend as he took a seat next to him.

“You mean my boss?” Cooper replied not taking his eyes of the tv screen. “Nothing.”

“Nothing? You pussy. When you gonna get in there? Can’t wait forever man, more attractive men such as myself will take her instead.” David offered.

“Yeah right.” Cooper snorted, half amused and half disgusted at his friend talking about Alice this way.

“Laugh all you want but if you don’t hit that soon you’ll be stuck in the ‘professional’ relationship, or even worse ‘just friends’. Fuck her soon.”

“Dude come on, she’s my boss and slightly classier than you make her sound so back off a bit yeah?”  Cooper paused the game to get some alcohol for himself.

“Sounds like someone has it fucking bad.” Ryan retorted setting his can down and picking up the controller. Cooper opened the refrigerator and let the cool air ease his racing mind. In a crass way his friends were right, he would have to step it up a notch, maybe a casual compliment here, a flirty comment there and then maybe a date. A date which would start at this little bistro downtown and hopefully end up back at his.

“Coop you coming back man?” Cooper shut the door and re-joined his friends, a determined smile dancing across his lips.

An apartment in WeHo

Andrea sat at her computer and browsed her fanatical scrapbook. Yep, she had officially lost her mind. What had started out as a harmless infatuation had turned into a full-blown obsession and yet she had no idea why. Dana wasn’t particularly special nor the most attractive lesbian she knew and yet she felt compelled to know more and to know just how far she could get away with impacting the athlete’s life. She knew this was not normal and that she had crossed a line. It should stop right now. She slammed her laptop shut and took a deep breath. Enough was enough. Starting from tomorrow she wasn’t going to think about the tennis player and her hateful girlfriend. Tomorrow was going to be different. She fully believed this lie she repeatedly told herself each night but would betray by morning.

TBC