"Have you got a minute Alice?"

Alice Pieszecke beckoned her boss in without looking up from her laptop. "To what do I owe the pleasure Luke?"

Luke Marlow dropped a folder onto Alice’s desk and sat down opposite her. "New assignment for you Al."

"No can do Luke," Alice replied, her eyes still focused on her computer screen. "I’m all booked up I’m afraid. Try Dom?"

"They want you." Alice looked up at Luke quizzically. "And only you."

"I’ll bite. Whose the client?"

"Dana Fairbanks." Luke nodded towards the folder. "Popular tennis player who has just come out."

"She’s cute," Alice said as she flicked past a small photo in the folder. "So why me?"

"Dana’s manager believes she needs the right first girlfriend to make this ‘lesbian tennis star’ thing work," Luke explained. "She read the article on you in the Times last month, and thinks you have the right attitude for the job."

"So what you mean is she wants to hire me because I’m a lesbian."

Luke shrugged. "Pretty much. Lovely little pay packet though."

"How lovely?"

Luke pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket and handed it to Alice. Unfolding it, she took one look before facing Luke again.

"I can reshuffle some cases. I’m in."

"You did what?"

Tonya rolled her eyes at the brunette who was pacing back and forth in front of her. "Dana it’s not a big deal. A good girlfriend means good publicity."

"And I’m unable to find myself a ‘good girlfriend’?" Dana asked.

"No," Tonya replied calmly. "You’re unable to find any type of girlfriend. Good, bad or otherwise. So I’m

helping you."

"I don’t need help Tonya!"

Tonya stood up and made her way to the door, patting Dana’s shoulder reassuringly. "Hun you need as much help as  possible. Accept it."

"I can’t believe I’m doing this," Dana grumbled as she trailed behind Tonya into The Planet. "I should just fire you. I could just fire you right now."