After collecting all the balls, Dana walked near Alice. She carefully calculated the space between them. “Shall we?” she pointed out the court door. Her voice sounded abnormal.

“Sure” Alice answered. She tried to sound casual but it was nothing but casual “Lead the way” she continued.

Dana did. Then she exhaled loudly.

*****

Dana started to take out the contents of her locker over the bank as Alice did the same. No words came out from any one as if they were strangers happened to be at the same place. It was uncomfortable.

Dana’s cell phone started dancing on the bank, making very strange vibration noises. It was pretty obvious who the caller was even without the annoying photo popped on over the phone’s LCD. Alice grabbed the phone to give it to Dana. She tried to look calm but her anger started to show. What did Dana found in Tonya anyway?

Dana moved forward, her eyes filled with purpose. Some message beyond understanding. Beyond decoding She looked straight into Alice‘s eyes while reaching out the phone. She too knew it was Tonya; never bothered to check the caller again. The hands touched lightly, like a breeze caressing the body. Alice wanted to avoid Dana’s look but somehow could not dare. Dana took the cell phone out of Alice’s hand, she expertly held the small material in her palm and pressed the “No” button to stop the call with only using her thumb letting Alice see this action. Better yet and to Alice‘s surprise; while Dana was still looking deeply into Alice, she turned off the phone completely.

Alice was stupefied for a moment with the whole phone thing when Dana roughly took advantage of the situation and pushed her onto the lockers. The sound of the dropping phone made a huge noise. Alice‘s back hurt, very much actually, but she was so in trance of the situation, leading to the unknown. Dana pressed her on her upper arms over the lockers with both of her hands. She was breathing heavily, her eyes reflecting hunger. Her grip tightened around Alice‘s arms when Dana closed the space between them, both bodies unintentionally enjoyed their first encounter.

They were now face to face, maybe only an inch existed in between. Their eyes locked into each other searching confidence, some sort of start to dump the energy saved for all these years. Dana breathed out over Alice‘s lips to extend the torture beginning to build up.