“How about you listen?” said Quin with a quick smile.  The grin brightening her features nicely, making Alice well aware of how sexy the woman was suddenly.  She was the opposite of Helena, thinking that Quin would never buy a pair of boots that cost more than the rent on an apartment for a year. Watching as Quin’s very nimble fingers opened the case and turned on the very expensive looking computer, flipping the top open with one hand and depressing the button with the other. 

            “What is that thing?”

            “HP, with over 2 gigs of ram, I have two external hard drives at home on a wireless hub, but I copied my play list onto this hard drive, we are clocking,” said Quin as her fingers flew over the keyboard.  Alice took the half empty glass and refilled it, offering it towards Quin, who nodded, so Alice went into the kitchen and found her a glass, cleaning it with the end of her shirt.

            “Here you go,” said Alice and Quin took the glass, sipping it and nodding her approval. 

            “So why does a Peabody want to sit in a booth with me, for three hours a day, and listen to me talk about connections and playing music?” asked Alice punctuating it with a hiccup, which made Quin chuckle.

            “Because I’d get to sit and play music?” offered Quin, the playlist loading and she pushed the play button on the side of the computer, an Indigo Girl song cueing up.  “I’ve loved music all my life, my brother, Hamilton, who’s dead, had a band, that I played with for years, but now, I think it’s time to move on.  This could be it, I might start a new band, but who knows?  Here is what I was thinking, there is a whole bevy of music out there that isn’t ‘gay’ related that is good.  Are we going to be exclusive to lesbian/gay music fare?  Or are we going to play everything?” asked Quin eyeing Alice.

            “Well, I’d think if we want to be good, we should play something of everything, right?” asked Alice not having given it much thought, her other show, The Chart had been easy, but this was a huge undertaking, and Alice wanted to be a success.