“Like what???”  They were close to the garage now and Alice turned, pulling them into a huddle, slinging her arms over Shane and Dana‘s shoulders.  Sam‘s camera hung in the center of the human circle.

            “Here is the game plan.  We are going to go spy…”  Shane snorted and then said in a tone mimicking Dana‘s.

            “Well duh.”  Alice shot Shane a look and Dana rolled her eyes.  Sam grimaced, turned the camera and snapped a shot of Alice‘s face.

            “That was so me, it was scary.”  Dana interjected and Sam laughed hard, she crouched low and they made their way to the garage pushing through the untrimmed hedges.

*****

            “So this is the car you are working on?” Tina asked handing another box of take out to Rosita and Ro nodded.  She pointed to the Corvette that was in pieces all over her spacious garage.  Tools scattered all over the floor, and an oil pan was only a few feet from them.

            “What a ***** too she just won’t let me finish her.  Stubborn woman…”  Tina laughed she was sitting on a tool box as was Rosita the take out between them on a turned over crate.  It was now a bi weekly ritual for them.  A long late lunch that sometimes took up 3 or more hours.  Talking easily and chatting about the day, the world and Tina.

            Tina had realized after the third ‘lunch date’ that Rosita never told her much about herself.  Unless you asked a direct specific question.  Ro was still a huge mystery to Tina.  Tina loved it piecing together small snippets every day about her new friend.  There were past the third lunch date now, closer to 10 if Tina counted correctly. 

            “How is Bella feeling today?”  Rosita asked smiling as she regarded the blonde.  They always had easy conversations about everything from the weather to politics. 

            “Ok, my friends were wondering where I was rushing off too.”  Tina snickered liking that she was having this ‘secret’ life of hers.  It was rather exhilarating.

            “You haven’t told them about me?  Still on the DL about me huh?”  Rosita smiled her head bopping to the music that played in the background.  It was a new hip hop CD that her father had dropped by the day before.