Chapter 21

True to her word, two days later Bette called Tina to chat.  As in the old days the conversation just flowed, with no agenda, defensiveness or miscommunication just enjoying hearing about one another’s day and their shared Angelica stories.

On Friday, Tina stopped by the Planet to drop Angelica off to Bette. Since Kit had asked Bette to drop by to give advice on potential renovations to the club, Tina volunteered to meet her there where she was going to catch up with Helena and Kate as well.

Tina arrived late to drop off Angelica because the latter decided she needed to play with her spaghetti and Tina tended to relax the discipline on Fridays since she wouldn’t see her for the weekend.

Tina was hoping to avoid having Kate and Bette in the same room because it made her uncomfortable when the two of them were together in the same room.  They acted like two alphas sizing each other up.

Add to that the presence of Tina’s other ex-lover and, as Tina’s southern Grandma would say, she felt like a cat in a room full of rockers.

Walking into the Planet, Tina quickly glanced around and breathed a sigh of relief to find that only Bette and Helena were there.

She waved to Helena and indicated that she was going to talk to Bette.  Helena nodded and went back to her reading.

Angelica’s squealing as she spotted her other mother alerted Bette to their presence before she saw them.  She turned from Kit with a huge grin on her face and opened her arms to Ang who eagerly grabbed onto her, causing Tina and Kit to chuckle at her enthusiasm.

Bette turned her attention to Tina with a kiss on the cheek.

“Hi.  You look nice” she said as she gave Tina the once over.  Tina could still wear formfitting clothes and the black jeans she wore did that as the green top showed off both her growing curves and brought out her coloring.

Bette caught her wondering eyes and thoughts.

“So do you.” Tina responded.  Bette had always been stylish but she adopted a new look when she first started as dean.  Tina secretly considered this Bette’s billowy period where her clothes were more librarian than macho femme.  That period thankfully was over as evident by the skirt, high heel boots and button down which was, to Tina’s discomfort, too unbuttoned down.