“What the hell is this on your computer, Alice?  You’ve been videotaping me secretly.  Jesus Christ.  What the fuck is this?”

Alice sat up, awakened from a sound sleep to have to jump into the middle of a major rage from her lover.  “What?”

“I saw what’s on your laptop.  You’ve been taping me?”

Alice looked across at her laptop and tried to figure out what to say.

“This goes way over the top, Alice.  Way over.  I feel totally violated.”

Alice tried to calm her with a gentle touch on her forearm.  “No, Dana.  It’s not what happened.  I bought Bette and Tina a Nannycam and I set it up in the living room to see if it worked before I took it over to them.  I didn’t expect to get anything of any importance on there.  I was just testing it.”

“Is it still up there?  Is it?”  Dana didn’t wait for an answer.  She leapt from the bed and stormed into the living room going directly to the bookcase where she guessed the camera would be.  She pulled the anteater from the shelf and looked behind it.  “God, it’s still here and still on.”  She tucked the stuffed animal under her arm and returned to the bedroom.  “Can I tell you how outrageous this is?  This is nuts, Al.”

“Dana, I forgot about it.”

“No.  No, you so didn’t, Alice.  Are you checking this every night to see if I’ve had another woman up here—Tonya or Lara or something?  When I leave the house you go get the latest data to examine.  This is un-fucking-believable.”

Alice was going to lose this fight that much was evident, so she did what she had to do.  She turned the tables.  “You know, Dana.  I’m wondering why you never told me that Lara was up here.  What I don’t know won’t hurt me?”

Dana’s eyes bulged out of her head.  She was the one who was completely justified in her anger and now Alice was going to play the blame game.  “C’mon, Al.  Lara being up here wasn’t even a big deal.  Your spying--that’s totally huge.  It’s really demented.”

“I said I was sorry and I told you it was an accident.”