Dana couldn’t believe how her life was turning out. She still couldn’t believe she had the golden ring right in front of her and it disappeared right in front her eyes. So now instead of playing in the champion match at Wimbledon, she was heading back to LA for a series of surgeries on her ankle and knee.

The Doctors in London had told her that her ankle wasn’t injured that bad. All she really needed was for a surgeon to go in arthroscopicly and cleanup the cartilage and she should be able to use her ankle after a little rehab. But their big concern was her knee somehow she had managed to tear not only cartilage but she had seriously ripped both major ligaments going into her knee, and this would take extensive arthoscopic surgery if not open knee surgery. They reassured her that because she was young and fit, in time she would be able to use her knee regularly. But they didn’t think she would ever be able to put the strain on her knee that was required to continue playing tennis at the level she was at. But rest assure after extensive rehab she would be able to play tennis, jog and do other physical activities as long as she didn’t over do it.

She looked at the woman setting beside her and wished she would just go away. Kate was one of many of a series of women she had been dating, and even though she was trying to do everything she could to make Dana feel better, all it was doing was bringing in to sharp contrast what she didn’t have in her life anymore. She missed her friends, and mainly she missed Alice. She knew if Alice was here somehow she would make her see that it was OK, that she could get beyond this and everything would work out. But Alice wasn’t here not as her girlfriend and because of she had pulled away not even her as her friend.

When they finely landed at the airport the Flight Attendant asked if Dana would like them to get her a wheelchair to help her get around. Dana just looked at the woman like she was crazy. There was no way in ***** she was going to be wheeled around like she helpless. So even though she was slow and still trying to figure out how to use her crutches, she stood up and exited the plane. After Kate and her manager picked up their luggage they headed out to the main lobby area.