Lol it took me 5 minutes to remember what the thing they were telling Alice was.
"They think Dougie did it?" Alice asked bewildered. I nodded. "Why?"
"Cos Dom apparently sat up and walked away." Tom explained. "Who the hell knows where he could be by now." He added knitting his eyebrows together.
"The States maybe…" Danny suggested.
"That's too obvious." I told him shaking my head.
"The U.S. is huge though, Haz." Laurie pointed out. "And I saw a movie once where these dudes we're trying to find this other dude in New York City. It took months for them to find him."
The four of us-excluding Alice, began to argue. Usually Alice would join in on this sort of thing, but she remained strangely quiet.
"Does anyone else know about this?" She asked quietly. We all stopped arguing and looked at her and then each other.
"No...If the media ever found out you're in here we're saying that you and Dom had a rather nasty argument and you miscarried because of the emotional stress from the fight." We all turned to find Dougie leaning against the door. A cigarette was tucked behind his ear. We stared at him in silence for a few minutes till he shrugged. "Just a thought."
"And a pretty good one at that." Tom said clearly stunned.
"Now if Danny had come up with that we all would have been knocked clean off of our feet." He grinned as Danny looked at him quizzically. "Dude it's a joke…"
"Ah." Danny nodded. I don't think he understood the joke…
"Hey you ok?" Dougie asked Alice as he closed the door. Alice nodded as he came over. "My stomach hurts a little though." She said looking down feeling a little bashful.
"Yeah, I heard that happens from time to time…" He said turning to grab a chair while silently cussing at himself.
"Where did you hear that?" Alice asked sounding a bit skeptical.
"Somewhere…"
"The local porn shop?"
"Yeah…hey!" He exclaimed laughing. Alice smiled softly. "How'd you know?"
"Let's just say I did a lot of snooping back then."
"So it was you who went through my collection!" Dougie exclaimed sitting on the edge of the bed.
"Ah, you caught me." Alice put on a mock look of horror.
"And I always thought it was Danny going through them…" Dougie shook his head.
"Well he apparently wasn't." She smugly smiled.
"Why did you go through my stuff anyway?"
"To find out things that would get you in trouble." Alice looked a bit ashamed as she twisted the blanket in her hands.
"Oh, well we've gotten each other into trouble a lot anyway in the past." He looked down at his hands. "I've got to go…"
"Tell Laurie not to do anything stupid." She said watching as he left.
"I will…" Dougie left pulling the hood of his sweatshirt over his head and a put a large pair of sunglasses on.