She smiled at Bette before moving Bette’s silky hair from her ear and whispered,

“You’re fucking scrumptious.”

She kept her lips close to Bette’s ear and inhaled gently letting her hand brush against Bette’s hair tenderly as she let it go, sweeping her hand down Bette’s back to the small of her waist, keeping her hand there as she smiled and tilted her head to look at Bette who was smiling softly with her head bent.

Helena, still smiling, bent over to retrieve her drink releasing Bette. She took a sip looking up at Casey on the stage then looked at Bette whose head was still bent, she was smiling and shaking her head unbelievingly before looking up and over at Shane.

Helena followed Bette’s gaze to Shane, her eyes twinkled and she tried to fight the urge to laugh. She could see Bette’s eyes twinkling as well. She lifted her glass to Bette who reciprocated before they both took another sip.

“Thank you” Bette shouted, her eyes still twinkling.

“Soooo………???” Helena started, looking over at Shane then back into Bette’s eyes, “I’m stunning then, am I?” she said grinning mischievously at Bette.

Holding Helena’s gaze, Bette smiled softened and she turned slightly to face Helena who was shyly trying to stifle a smile.

The lighting cast a bronze glow on Helena’s skin and made her eyes glitter under her long eyelashes. Bette looked into Helena’s defiant eyes and grew serious before moving her cheek close to Helena’s ear, brushing her body into Helena’s softly and resting her free arm around Helena’s back, “I can’t keep my eyes off of you” she said before placing her cheek against Helena’s and feeling the warmth of Helena’s skin pressing into her gently.

She arched back and looked into Helena’s beautiful face seriously, searching her eyes, drinking in her face before raising her free hand to brush her fingers against Helena’s cheek, tracing a strand of loose hair from her forehead and placing it behind Helena’s ear.

“___I was so lonely___I feel like noone could feel___I must be dreaming___I want this dream to be real___and then this feeling___,” Casey bewitchingly continued singing her own trendy rendition of Chaka Khan’s ‘Ain’t Nobody’.