Bette threw her briefcase to the floor and slumped down into a seat at their usual table. She needed coffee and she needed it now. Bette leant forward towards the table and held her head up with her hands.

She was about to open her mouth and demand coffee but she felt a hand on her shoulder, it seemed to calm her nerves down a bit. She pulled back and looked over, only to find Alice watching her with sympathetic eyes.

“Not going so well then?” Alice asked as she pulled her hand back.

“It’s going well, apart from this morning actually – that wasn’t so well.”

Alice pushed her cup across the surface of the table. The aroma of the coffee messed with Bette’s senses and she happily picked the cup up to take a small sip. Once she was satisfied she handed the cup back over to Alice.

“Want to tell me what happened?”

Bette returned to her position of slumping over the table whilst holding her head up with her hands. Alice could see the tension in the brunettes’ slender body and it worried her.

Usually Bette was a little worried in the morning because of stress to do with the CAC, now the added problems of people staying at her home?

“After you left, I invited Tina out for some lunch, I think she’s still meeting up with me later – but that’s not the point. She returned back to the guest bedroom and I carried on with my morning routine,” She noticed the slightly bored expression on Alice’s face so she sped up her story. “It turns out that Eric didn’t return from clubbing last night. He crawled back inside this morning. Tina wasn’t pleased, well, to be honest – neither was I!”

Alice opened her mouth in surprise, “But he’s a guest! He doesn’t come back at seven in the morning. What a-”

Bette intervened before Alice could verbally abuse the poor man. “Tina had a massive go at him, as expected. I could hear them bickering in the room. I think he was still drunk! It ended up with Eric passed out on the bedroom floor and Tina sobbing her eyes out by the pool.”