Sasha's gentleness failed to completely disguise the steel in her wiry grip, and the arrogant way in which she invaded Jodi's personal space set the girl's teeth on edge.<br/>"I, uh, hope so," she said blandly to the woman's first comment, but couldn't resist jumping on the second line. "Yeah, could you, um, zip up? Please? Uh, no offense," she said, fixing her gaze conspicuously away from Sasha. Her fair cheeks reddened - had Sasha spotted Jodi's furtive glances on the way inside? The older woman was gorgeous, in an edgy, alternative way guaranteed to provoke the interest of a middle-class teenage dyke desperately looking for her own ways to rebel.<br/>"I don't have any piercings - uh, besides my ears, and, uh, my navel. My ... my friend had some," Jodi stumbled a bit awkwardly over the latter phrase, not sure what reaction revealing her lesbianism might provoke, and equally confused, even in retrospect, as to whether Maxine had really been a girlfriend.