“Fairbanks!  Get out here now!”  Dana’s coach yelled from the doorway causing the two to break apart.  Dana grabbed her bag, threw a grin and a wink at Alice, and then jogged out of the locker room.  Alice stood unmoving, stunned still from the kiss.  “I like tennis”  She whispered to the empty room.

            Dana made it outside just in time to see the last bit of the match before hers.  One of the girls served an ace and won the match.  Dana smiled as the winner jumped up and down rejoicing, but her smile faded as she watched the player run over to her boyfriend for a celebratory kiss.  Cameras were flashing everywhere catching the winner’s lip lock, she looked over towards the stands and saw Alice standing watching the kiss also.  Dana thought of how great it would be to run over to the blonde, with her adrenaline pumping after a win, and kiss her in front of everyone.  Press be damned. 

She lowered her head in shame knowing how happy it would make her girlfriend who had been totally supportive of her throughout their time together.  Dana had seen past the front Alice had been putting up for her.  She could tell how much it killed the blonde not to be able to touch her in public when they were out together or the sad looks when Dana had to gallivant around on Harrison‘s arm at tennis functions. 

At the thought of Harrison, she checked the stands to make sure he was there to keep up the charade they played with the press.  He gave her a wave and blew a kiss her way, which of course was captured on a few cameras in the crowd.  She gave him a stiff wave and turned away, her gaze quickly falling back on Alice who gave her a small smile.  After hearing her named called to the court, she quickly tried to clear her mind knowing that all her worries would affect her game.  She would just have to take her frustrations out some other way she thought, as her gaze narrowed in on her opponent.

The match was in its sixth game of the second set and the score was 40-30, Dana in the lead.  She had won the first set and it had seemed like her opponent was going to make a comeback, but Dana had stayed strong in the second set and one more point would win her the match.  It was her serve and she was nervous, her palms were sweating so much that she could have sworn that any second the ball would slip out of her hand.  There wasn’t a sound in the stands as everyone held their breath awaiting the serve for the match point.  Dana made the motion of scanning the crowd one last time to catch just glance of Alice, but her gaze stopped against her will at the blonde’s smile of encouragement.  Alice believed in her