“Excellent.”  She said in a sigh of relief.  He nodded and went out back to fetch the
file, she bit her lip as he quickly came back and she took one of the cards on
the glass top and wrote her ‘name’ and her ‘number’ on it.  She
looked over, and saw the name on the file, ‘Quin P’.  Alice almost growled aloud, and she gave the
man the card.

          “Thank you so very much, I will
be back.  I have my eye on that….”  Alice pointed to a small gold chain, with a
single teardrop emerald hanging elegantly from the chain.

          “Wonderful, please do come back Miss Peterson.” 
He said, obviously irked that she had not bought anything, but
enlightened that she had her eye on something. 
In his experience, once a woman got something like that in their heads,
they rarely gave up until they had it.

          “I will.”  Alice smiled, hurrying out the door, eager to
get out of the heels and cursing her luck that Miss Quin still didn’t have a last name.

          “Dana, focus!” 
Gale yelled and Dana grunted, slamming the ball across the
court.  She waited for him to volley
back, but instead he let the ball wiz by and he stood, staring at her with his
arms crossed.

          “What’s your damage today?  All week for that matter?”  Gale asked, and Dana made her way to the bench, sitting down and mopping
her brow with a towel.  Gale moved to her, he was tall, broad
shoulders and even Dana had to admit, he was handsome.

          “My friends put me on the spot
the other day and Tonya talked me out of doing something that would be good
for two people I really care for.”  Dana said, and Gale sat down.  In his experience a trainer did not just
train they listened.  Dana was no dumb jock, he could tell, even
though people treated her that way; hence her habit of falling into that act.

          “Ok, what did they want you to
do?  Why didn’t Tonya want you to do it?”  He asked in the voice of a trained
psychiatrist.  He sometimes thought he
was in the wrong business. 

          “They want me to invest in their
business, to buy out Francesca‘s half of the Planet.  Tonya doesn’t want me to do it because she
says it will take away to much time from tennis.”  Dana sighed, and Gale thought for a moment, his deep green
eyes clouding over in thought.