OUT OF CONTROL chapter 16       The room had been plunged into darkness by a teasing Tina hours ago while when she had said, “You know, Baby, if you don’t stop laughing at me there will no welcome home gifts for you.” Bette Porter was being left behind giggling uncontrollably, “okay Babe don’t say I didn’t warn you. No house games for you then” Tina tossed a smoldering and playful smile over her shoulder before leaving for the night.

Bette stopped laughing when she registered what the smile implied, “I will never laugh again if you promise to do everything you are thinking right now.”

“Well, Babe, I will consider it but”, she said raising her arm revealing her cast one more time to Bette. She couldn’t help it. Bette was straining to keep the giggles under control. “Bye, baaabe” She said waving her fingers at Bette and giving that same hot and ***** smile.

“Tina wait, I’m sorry really. I’m not laughingREALLY” She said as the door was closing Tina had stuck her arm through the door for one more wave. Bette lay on her pillow smiling wide thinking about that smile which sent shivers up and down her body. She vowed that there will be plenty of house games and no rules. Life was going to be good. Bette went to sleep that night thinking very happy and very naughty thoughts. Finally she had a happy dream to look forward to.

Early in the morning before the sun had had a chance to rise, Shane came quietly into the room. She carefully sat on the chair next to the bed. Bette looked as if she was sleeping peacefully and Shane had no intentions of waking her. She couldn’t explain what had brought her here at this hour. She even went out of her way to sneak by the nurse’s station without being seen. She just felt an intense need.

Maybe it was because Bette was the closest thing she had to a mother figure and she was deeply afraid of loosing it. Was it fear that brought her here? She wasn’t sure but she loved Bette more than she had ever loved anyone in her entire life. She had been in several foster homes none of which were anything to brag about. Abuse and neglect had left Shane despondent about life in general. Before being invited into the gang she had nothing happy to go ‘home’ to. She was living a life of prostitution and drugs. By the grace of God she met Alice and Bette who had graciously taken her in and helped her get clean once and for all. She owed then both but Bette most of all. At that time she had been a 20 year old run away struggling to live. Now she was a relatively successful and sought after hair stylist there was no more hooking and no more drugs. That was entirely in her past.