Girl Chat & Guy Talk
"It's certainly weird seeing Brenda again isn't it?" Andrea asked Donna as she moved closer to the mirror to touch up her lipstick.
"Yeah it is. Have you heard from her much since she left?" Donna combed her blonde hair with her fingers, teasing out the knots.
"She sends Hannah a birthday card every year, but I've not actually spoken to her for ages. I didn't even realise she was living in New York until Brandon mentioned it." Andrea saw the troubled look on Donna's face, "What's the matter Donna?"
"I've just got this feeling that tonight's about to fall apart. I've worked so hard on this reunion and now there's this weird atmosphere." Donna shook her head slightly as if she was trying to shake off the feeling.
"Tonight's going great Donna, you've done a really good job, it's like being in high school again." Andrea smiled.
"Well there are some parts of high school I'd rather not be reliving." Andrea and Donna turned around as they heard a flush and Kelly came out of the stall.
"Come on Kelly, Brenda's not here to get Dylan back." Donna put her arm around her friend.
"How do you know that?" Kelly snapped at Donna.
"Because she can't have spent the last nine years pining after him and left it this long to do something about it." Andrea tried to be rational but even she'd felt the nostalgia for the old days when she'd seen Brenda and Dylan together.
"Six years. It's six years since they've seen each other, he went to live with her after Toni died, and I still have no idea what went on between them in London or why he came back." Kelly could see the façade of her happy marriage crumbling before her eyes.
"Oh, come on Kelly none of that matters, Dylan married you, he chose you." Andrea tried to sound reassuring.
"Yeah, do you guys remember high school, they were inseparable, even when they broke up, she'd shout and he'd go running."
"Kelly, this isn't high school. Dylan isn't going to leave you just because Brenda's back in town." Donna chewed on her bottom lip. She didn't like the feeling that she was about to end up back in the middle of the 'Brenda-Dylan-Kelly' battle.
"I'm just not so sure, Brenda was always the one test Dylan and I could never survive. Plus you know Brenda once she puts her mind to something." Kelly knew she should be feeling reassured by her friends but they didn't know the true state her marriage was in.
"So come on Brandon, what's the deal with Brenda?" Steve turned on Brandon as soon as the ladies headed towards the bathroom.
"I have no idea, I wasn't even sure she was definitely coming to Beverly Hills until she turned up on the doorstep this morning."
"Well she's got Kelly rattled." Steve was worried, he knew Kelly better than anyone and he knew she was lying about how perfect everything was between her and Dylan.
"Yeah and she's not even spoken to her." David had been on the fringes of the gang when Dylan and Brenda had been going steady but he remembered how intense it had been.
"Well Brenda never was one to be distracted from her main goal." Steve looked Brandon in the eyes. Since he'd got divorced the gang had been like his safety net, they'd picked him up and helped him sort himself out. They might be scattered across the country but they were as close as ever and he didn't want Brenda messing it all up.
"Look Steve I'm not my sister's keeper, I've barely seen her in the last nine years. I have no idea what her plans are or what she's looking for in coming back here." Brandon was sick of being answerable for Brenda's actions.
"Well she'd better be careful Brandon, this isn't some high school romance she's playing with, this is a marriage, Kelly's marriage."
"Don't you think Dylan has a role to play here? Even if Brenda does want him back maybe he doesn't want her." Brandon had the feeling he was clutching at straws.
"Well it certainly looked like he wants her."