Life: Altered 03.28 ~*~ Captured

Can’t run forever Quin.  The soft voice of her brother sang in her ear as her small feet pounded the pavement.  Quin stopped, hands on her knees, breathing hard.  A thin sheen of sweat covering her body as she put her hands on her knees, watching as drops of sweat fell from her nose.  People kept casting her looks and she found herself sitting on the edge of the sidewalk; catching her breath.

“Cab…”  Quin said to herself, pulling out the cell phone from her back pocket; and she dialed the usual number, requesting Seahurst.  She sat and waited; hatching a plan in the back of her mind. Honesty was always the best policy, not more hiding behind the pain, the shadows, and the music.  It was time to be Quin, plain and simple; she hoped it wasn’t too late for Alice to forgive her.
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Dana smacked the ball hard, grunting with each it and finally Gale couldn’t take it any more; he let the ball fly by and said with his classic gruffness.

“OK!  Enough, who the heck are you upset with this time?”  He asked and Dana gave him a peculiar look.  She put her hands to her eyes, shielding it from the sun and saying.

“Huh?”  Gale grunted, walking over towards her, wiping his brow with the back of his arm.

“Don’t play dumb with me Fairbanks; you know what I’m talking about, what has got your titties in a twist this time?”  Dana made a face of disgust, Gale laughed, waving his tennis racket over to the benches, and Dana sat down, pouting. 

“We’ve got two weeks before go to Aussie, you have got to unload the baggage.  You go there like this, and you are going to blow the first match.  You have to relax, get it all off your ***** chest.”  Gale said, and he smiled at Dana.  Dana shrugged, not really knowing what was bothering her at all, things just seemed to be racing at 100 miles per hour, and she didn’t have brakes.  She just knew that when she was with Shane, things moved at a deliberate speed, one that she could get use too.

“I know!  I’m just scattered, how about we pick this up tomorrow?”  Dana pleaded, looking at her watch and back up at Gale.  He shook his head, his shaggy brown hair falling into his eyes.

“Nope, this was our last practice and I want you to take a week off.  Relax, pack, whatever you want to do, go get laid.  The last week we have promo stuff, that’s what Stacy told me, so you are no longer in physical training, I want your head as much in this game as your body.”  He said and Dana stuck her tongue out at him and he smiled.

“You are the best trainer…”  Dana began; and he waved his hand at her.

“Yeah…  Go…  Off with you.”  Gale said as she bounded away, and he wondered who Dana Fairbanks was in love with.

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Cassandra, Tina and Daisy were all rushing around getting dressed, eating and bumping into each other in the small kitchen area.  Tina was walking around with her hands in the air, and Cass was bent over trying to find something, she stood and moved quickly to the fridge.
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