"Are you and Guttierez close?"

Allie stopped writing scores when she heard Martin's question. They are here in the open court. She lists the scores of the seven core members of their tennis club. The seven core members are the ones who always compete in tournaments. They are the best in the entire SLU tennis club. She remembered. At SVU, Tennis Knights are the nine core members of the team. What if she also thought of a name for their core group?

"Just mentioning Guttierez, you're stunned."

Allie blinked and then remembered the question. “I don't know about you, ah. Then yes. Close us. Why did you ask?"

He folded...