BETTE’S POV

I had just arrived at LAX when Tina’s plane had landed-she was flying in from New York for the weekend and I couldn’t wait to show her what I had done to the house and my new job I had landed at the Arts University. It’s been a few months since our first kiss and I knew that getting into a long distance relationship was out of the question for us both but I also knew that being friends was asking for a little too much too, being that our feelings for one another have grown to a point where I couldn’t live without seeing her; thinking about her; or even touching myself with imaging how she feels naked or what it felt like to feel her lips pressed against mine. The trip to California had been planned for a month now with promises that we’d fit one another into our busy schedules. She’s busy teaching and I’m busy conducting a school full of ambitious and bubbly individuals who see themselves as artists someday and others owning their own museums to project their work in also. We talk over the phone almost everyday, depending on if Phyllis needs me in a meeting or if I’m busy on the phone handing heavy call volumes throughout the day, but there isn’t a moment when I don’t think about her or if she doesn’t think about me either. As you know I’ve been with women before but Tina’s never been with a woman before. She’s dated men off and on but came to find that she’s not attracted to them like she thought she was and she’d rather be friends with them and occasionally maybe have a cup of coffee on the way to work when they both have a chance to. I can respect that because I have male friends too but it’s on a respectable level but men are men and just because I don’t date them don’t stop them from hitting on me or offering to take me to lunch or maybe dinner. Hey, I’m sexy why not, right? I laugh when I think about it because I’m happy to be seeing my lady and I can’t wait to feel her close to me.