She was so stunned, that her bellowing tune transformed into a pitiful yowl. Her ever so graceful limbs were again her own and she caught the vacuum cord abruptly with her left foot as she tumbled disgracefully towards the ground.

“Oh ***** Alice!” she heard a voice call for her all the way from the door, but she was too shocked to respond…

The tone of concern was unmistakable and in an instant Alice looked up to see who it was.

Just as she has suspected Dana was there, wrapping her strong arms around her and pulling her cautiously to her feet. Her bright blue eyes quickly scanning for injury, and as soon as they found none she fell into a fit of laughter. Alice felt hot blood rush from her racing heart and move all the way up to color her cheeks.

“Dana, what the ***** are you doing here!?!” she demanded, embarrassed to have been caught having one of her moments. Swiftly she turned from her and stalked away without waiting for an answer.

“Wh . . . bu . . . I . . . ” Alice heard Danas attempts at speech in between loud peals of laughter.

This only angered her more. She ran to the bedroom and slammed the door. Dana was right on her heels, and by this time her laughter had died to an annoying chuckle.

“Oh God… I’m sorry!” She stated as she chuckled some more.

“Shut up, you are not!” Alice kept her back to her, not wanting to see the overly amused look on her face.

“I took the rest of the day off from practice so I could spend some time with you. I didn’t mean to . . . to interrupt.” Again came the laughter.

“Go to *****.” Alice started to push past her, but Dana grabbed her arm and pulled the somewhat angry blonde towards her. She pressed her mouth to Alices ear, and the heat of her made to make Alice dizzy.

“Al, I’m sorry. I just wanted to surprise you.” Danas breath tickled her lobe, sending tremors through her spine. At that moment Alices body went limp as she leaned in heavily against the slim brunette.