“Busy night Dane?” Shane asked grinning broadly.  “I’m sure you were that colour last night too” laughed the hairdresser as the athlete’s face turned bright red.  At this point Alice pushed past Shane and jumped on the bed kissing the brunette gently before answering on her behalf.  “Yeah I believe I saw this colour on her last night once or twice Shane, and I was planning on seeing it again this morning but not with you standing here watching” Alice quipped.

Realising that she had now become the scapegoat as Alice tried to escape Shane’s teasing herself, Dana decided to use her most effective weapon and looked at Alice with puppy dog eyes and pouted her lips.  “You’re picking on me” she whined.  Alice looked at her gorgeous girlfriend and immediately felt a twinge of guilt.  They had shared an incredible night together and Alice didn’t want Dana to think that she could just to reduce it to light-hearted banter.  “You’re right, I’m sorry baby, I love you” said Alice as she softly kissed the athlete again.  Worried that she had made Alice feel bad Dana quickly sought to reassure her and kissed her back gently resting their foreheads together and declaring her own love while looking deep into the writer’s eyes.  “Too fucking cute” Shane mumbled from the doorway as she turned to leave. 

“Ok guys maybe next weekend we can do lunch or would it be better to plan dinner?  Are you more likely to be out of bed at that hour?” Shane called over her shoulder.  As she went to let herself out of the apartment, Shane noticed Alice’s camera on the table in the hall and decided the image she had just left behind in the bedroom was one that should be captured for posterity.  She poked her head back round the door and captured the image of the two women who had moved apart slightly but were looking at one another with love while also exuding that magical afterglow of the night they had clearly shared.  She put the camera back on the hall table and left.

Given the fact that the point of Shane’s photo was to capture the look of love between her two friends, the frame consisted entirely of their faces and necks.  This meant that the fact that neither woman was wearing much clothing didn’t preclude them from having the photo on public display and while they were together it had sat on the table just where it was now.  So Alice had known that this was the photo she wanted to display but she was also aware of the fact that it was a picture that reflected their time as lovers not as friends and she questioned how healthy it was for her to look at it every day.  In the end though she had decided that the reassurance that she got from seeing the look of love and happiness on Dana’s face outweighed all the other factors.  In the long run she understood that she probably couldn’t keep it out but as she fought to keep away the fear that she could forget the image of this beautiful woman’s face she felt justified in displaying it.