Helen sat frozen to her seat. For a moment she had found herself leaning in to meet Briseis half way. For a split second she wanted to kiss Briseis because it felt so right. Why the hell not?
Because she's your best friend and you haven't had that in too damn long! Damn you, logic and your rationality.
Helen sat there feeling her face burning, mouth half open as she tried to wrap her head around this without making too much of a scene. She set her glass down and reached up to Briseis, "Okay, I think maybe we have something else to talk about now and we should before things get weird." She kept her cool pretty well under pressure even if inside there was a little voice screaming at her.