Settling into the seat of her car, Bette let out a weary sigh thinking to herself that this was one of those occasions where not being able to just pick up the phone to ring Jodie was going to make a situation a lot more complicated than it really needed to be.  Trying to explain the events that had just occurred and provide Jodie with the reason why she was going to be late having already missed breakfast with her this morning – all by text message- seemed an impossibility.  She debated what to do and finally settled on what she figured was the safest option if she didn’t want her whole weekend to turn into a huge row.  She made the call.

“Bette? What’s up I thought you were following behind? I don’t see you.”

“I’m still in the parking lot at The Planet.”

“Oh ok.  What’s up?”

“Listen Tina I’m sorry to drag this out I don’t want to waste your whole morning but I really need to go home and talk to Jodie first.”

Tina struggled to answer.  She had felt such a strong connection to Bette that morning in the planet and she was sure that Bette had felt it too.  Tina internally scolded herself as she realised that it was only natural that Bette would want to turn to her girlfriend after the emotional upheaval of the morning.  As she came to this conclusion however, she also suddenly became aware that she had absolutely no inclination to talk to Karen about any of this.

“Tina? Are you still there?”

“Oh sorry yeah I’m still here. I just got distracted by something going on up ahead.  That’s fine Bette go and talk to Jodie first.  When do you want to come over for Angelica?”

“Shit Tina. I’m sorry I never even thought I’m probably messing up your plans.  Do you want me to come get Angie now and let you get on with your day and we can deal with Dana’s package some other time?”

As it dawned on Tina that Jodie was probably only in town for the weekend she figured Bette probably didn’t want to miss anymore of their time together.  So reluctantly she agreed.

“Sure, that’s fine.  We can catch up later in the week or something.  I’ll see you in a few minutes at my place.”