“Game. Fairbanks.”

“She won,” Alice said quietly to herself, her face radiating.

“I won,” Dana said breathlessly, unheard due to the roaring crowd that surrounded her. Her whole body tingled at the sudden realisation that the crowd was roaring for her. They were roaring for Dana.

“Dana! You were fantastic!” As always, Tonya had managed to let her voice be heard, crowd or otherwise. “I mean, I knew you could win but coming back from such slim odds! Publicity will go crazy! I’m thinking double cove-”

“Sure Tonya, Sure,” Dana said interrupting her. “Have you seen Alice?” Dana’s eyes desperately scanned the crowd but found no sign of Alice.

Regretfully Dana turned around again to face Tonya. Only Tonya wasn’t there.

“Cheer up kiddo,” Alice said laughing as she saw how down Dana looked. “You just won!”

“I Do you always sneak up on people like that?” Dana asked, her expression changing entirely after realising that Alice hadn’t left.

“Pretty much. You did a fantastic job out there Dane.”

“It feels really good,” Dana said as she grabbed Alice‘s hand. “Al I can’t tell you how much it meant to me for you to come all the way here and say what you said before. It’s impossible to tell you how much that meant.”

Alice‘s mind was in overload. They had been quickly circled by a number of photographers who had rushed at the chance to capture Dana talking to Alice.

Never in million years would Alice have considered what she was considering to do at that moment. In any of her past relationships, the possibility of bad publicity would have kept her from acting the way she was going to.

“Dana I-I what I said to you in the change room it wasn’t what I was originally that wasn’t what I so desperately needed to tell you.” It was a struggle to get the words out, and Alice found herself closing her eyes in order to concentrate.

Dana’s whole body froze. Alice was breaking up with her, expressing her desire to be friends. Dana had hung up on her at the airport before Alice could tell her, and now she was here

“This is really hard,” Alice said, laughing weakly before looking up at Dana, whose expression was one of horrific realisation.

Alice sighed. She was not only putting herself through ***** trying to explain her feelings to Dana, but she had managed to drag Dana along for the ride. All this trouble when Alice knew there was a much easier way to explain it all.

“***** it.”

Alice grabbed the back of Dana’s neck and fervently pulled the shocked brunette into a passionate kiss, drawing her other hand around Dana’s waist to pull her further into Alice‘s body.

After awhile Alice quickly pulled back from Dana, placing her mouth next to Dana’s ear.

“Now I hope you understand why I couldn’t tell you that over the phone,” she said slyly before being pulled into another ardent kiss by a beaming Dana.