Chapter One

Tina had been up for the better part of the night reading over scripts and hadn’t been asleep for more than four hours when her alarm went off. “*****” she mumbled into her pillow as she blindly slaped the sorce of the loud annoying beeping. Ten minutes later Tina finally rolled out of bed and clumsily stumbled to the bathroom. She turned on the shower and looked in the mirror as steam began to fill the room. “Uhg, look at that luggage” she said as she poked at her face. When she turned around to climb into the shower she stubed her toe on the bathroom scale. “Ow, damnit. So this is, how it’s gonna be today huh?” she muttered as she rubbed her throbing toe.

Fourty-five minutes later Tina was finally walking out the door. “I need coffee” she thought as she climbed into her black bmw, it was a present from her father for graduation. Every time her mom saw that car she became more and more enraged. “He blows you off two summers in a row to take your brother to Amsterdam and all of a sudden he thinks buying you a car will make up for it. That’s just like him, buying people” Her mothers words echoed in her mind. She shook it off and made her way to her first destination, caffine land.

Tina didn’t have time to go to her usual place so she decided to stop off at the planet, she had been there maybe a handfull of times before. On the rare days she would wake up early she would sometimes prefer the planet to her usual. The people there were more chill and relaxed and Tina loved that atmosphere. On her way back to her car she was fumbling with her keys and her cell started ringing. She in turn neglected to watch where she was going and typically smacked right into someone. “*****” she said as she regained her balance and luckily retained control of her coffee. “Im so sorry, im such an idiot” she said with annoyance for herself.

Bette had been having a convorsation with Alice about the new artist she was about to expose at the gallery when she was knocked off kilter by a beautiful stranger. “It’s ok” she replied with a smile. Alice looked at her friend and noticed a slight sparkle in her eyes. “Christ, here we go again” she thought as Tina walked away with Bette silently looking on. “Let her go Bette, she looks like a nice girl. Don’t turn her into a number.” Alice joked. Bette looked at Alice and rolled her eyes. “I was just looking.” she replied defencivly. Alice nodded her head in a mocking mannor. “I should get to work” she said as she retrived her car keys from her purse. “Oh you still do that?” came Bette’s reply along with a smirk. “Yeah, it’s probably tough for you to sit around and look at art all day too” Their exchange of daily banter was almost part of their routine, Alice loved a battle of wits and Bette couldn’t pass up a verbal challenge.