“Shane… I met this girl yesterday…”

“Alice, you meet girls every day, why are you being so serious? Not everything has to be a drama.”  Shane said, unimpressed by her friend’s sudden sombre demeanour.

“I know, I know, that’s why this is different.  I didn’t even really ‘meet’ her, more like smashed into her… She’s a goddess, honestly, a goddess and I don’t use that term for just anyone.”  Alice slipped into a daydream, picturing the ‘goddess’ from the day before.

“Alice…”

“Al…”

Shane rolled her eyes,

“ALIICCEEE!!”

Alice jumped out of her reverie, “Yes? Shane?”

“Go on, tell me about her”

Alice’s face lit up, “ok… So Helena forced me to go to her yoga class yesterday, I think she’s trying to hint that I’m out of shape, which is a bit unfair, I’m not out of shape, I do lots of things, I exercise… I’m not out of shape I am?”

Shane rolled her eyes again… “No Al, you’re not out of shape now can you plleeease get on with it”

“Oh yea, so the yoga class was held at this stupidly posh Tennis Club, I was running late so I told Helena to go in and I’d meet her in there.  So I get out of the car, grab my stuff and rush inside, as I reach the door WWWHHHAAAMMMM” Alice clapped her hands together startling Shane, “And there I was, sprawled out on the floor next to the most stunning girl I’ve ever seen.  Beautiful.  She has dark brown hair, she’d obviously just had a shower cause it was still wet.  She jumped up so fast swearing at herself for being clumsy, it was adorable.  I lay there in awe for a second, she has stunning blue eyes, I think I probably stared at her, which was probably really creepy.  JEEZZ, good one Alice!”  She smacked herself on the forehead, chastising herself. 

“OK Romeo, no need to punish yourself, keep the story rolling” Shane said trying to hold Alice’s attention.

“Yea so my yoga stuff was lying everywhere, she must have been playing tennis or something cause there were rackets and balls everywhere, we really made a mess.” Alice smiled, almost slipping into another daydream, Shane cleared her throat successfully bringing the blonde’s attention back.  “Yea, so she held out her hand to help me up, I just sort of looked at it for a minute, contemplating whether I should use it to help me up as intended or pull her down beside me again.  I did the sensible thing” Alice laughed, “I grabbed her hand to get up and then they hit me… the chills… starting where my hand was in contact with hers and streaming off like electric shocks up my arms and across my chest, I couldn’t breathe.” Alice held her throat.

“I got up and she started apologising, asking if I was ok, telling me she was clumsy and things like this always happened to her.  She talked so fast I was lucky to make out a single word of it, but it just made her cuter.  I had to interrupt her to stop her, I introduced myself, her name is Dana.  Dana… how sweet”

“OK Al, cut the crap, are you seeing her again, did you get her number?” Shane cut in trying to get to summarise Alice’s long-winded tale.

“Uummm, no, we just gathered up our things, apologised again and went our separate ways.”  Alice scrunched up her face, “Before you say anything, I know I’m a pussy I just couldn’t get the words out.  So I watched her go, she drives this cute little blue BMW soft top.” Alice smiled trying to distract Shane from the fact that she wimped out and didn’t at least get Dana’s number.

“You know you’re a pussy don’t you.” Shane said matter-of-factly.

“Yea… I know, but”

“No buts Al, what are we gona do about it?” Shane smiled already planning.