Bette: By a decent hour…

Alice crossed her arms in a huff.

Bette: Without Dash.

Alice: Okay I’m listening. How do you plan to pull this off?

@}~~~~~

Shane sat at a desk in the back room of Lather going over inventory when there was a knock at the door.

Shane: Yeah?

Dylan: Hey you’ve got a call.

Shane walked over to the front desk and cradled the phone against her ear.

Shane: Hey Al.

Shane smiled into the phone when she heard Alice’s sexy laugh.

Alice: How do you always do that?

Shane: I just get this tingle down my spine when I know you’re gonna be near.

Alice: Oh really?

Shane: Mmm Hmm, and my spidey sense travels all the way down into my jeans.

Alice: Really? I wouldn’t have guessed or I’d call you every hour on the hour.

Shane gave a husky laugh and shook her head sending her green highlights all over. Shane blushed at the mental images that ran through her head.

Shane: Uhm…Al…uh..baby…

Alice laughed hysterically on the other end of her cell phone.

Alice: Is someone standing by you?

Shane: Yeah.

Alice: You’re fucking cute when you try not to blush in public.

Shane lowered her head and laughed.

Shane: Shut up, I’m not used to this.

Shane felt hands snake around her body and froze until she looked down and melted when she realized they were Alice’s hands. She quickly hung up the phone and turned around to see Alice closing her cell and tucking it into her purse.

Shane: Hey what are you doing here?

Alice held up a white paper bag and tugged Shane out the front door.

Alice: Feeding my prince before he goes back to slay the inventory dragon…come on.

Alice sat down on the curb outside of Lather and Shane quickly joined her.

Shane: Yeah that shit is kicking my ass I’m kinda glad the whole owning my own place thing didn’t work out with the Jaffe’s.

Alice looked up apprehensively.

Shane: I mean think about it, I’ve been handling a lgot of the managing duties here for the past three months cause my client list got big and the place is booming, I don’t know what I would do if I was trying to run the whole place on my own. I would have been tossed in the deep end….and I…I wouldn’t be sitting here with you.