Alice

I could feel that my face was flushed red with embarrassment.

“Is Dana here?” Shane asked me, her eyebrows still raised.  

Shit. I wish she was. “Umm…No” I looked away in humiliation.

“Gross Al, I don’t wanna know. I just came over for a chat” She walked straight past me and down the hallway to the living room.

“Ooookay” I wasn’t really sure what Shane wanted to ‘chat’ about but it was a welcome break from work, not that I was actually doing any.

“So tell me everything, I mean of course I knew you and Dana liked each other cos…well I’m Yoda” Shane looked rather smug “But I didn’t know you had actually talked to each other about it, let alone been on a date and gotten together!”

We spent the rest of the afternoon discussing everything that had happened and as always Shane was supportive and she was happy for me and Dana. By the end of the afternoon we were involved in a full-on pillow fight, beating the shit out of each other while laughing hysterically.

Dana

My day of training had been a hard and tiring one. My coach was working me extra hard as I have a major competition coming up, and this was playing on my mind, although it made me as determined as ever to go far in my career and kick ass in this competition.

I returned home, grabbed my phone and threw myself onto my queen size bed, taking a well earned rest. My first thought as soon as I unlocked the front door was to get to the phone to ring my girlfriend. I dialed her number and laid my head back into the pile of pillows at the head of the bed.

“Hey baby!” the phone had only rung once before Alice picked up.

“Hey Al, you ok?”

“Yeah fine are you?”

“Yeah, totally wiped out though” I yawned into my phone on cue.

“Aaw baby, well how about I come over and make you a hot chocolate and tuck you up in bed?” Now that sounded great.