As Tina wakes up, the night before comes back to mind…the gallery show…the earring…the kiss…oh that kiss was spectacular. That night, Bette had given Tina her number and Tina, being unable to resist, accepted it. That kiss, small yet powerful, gave Tina a feeling that she had never experience before.

‘How does she make me feel this way? I have known her for less than 24 hours and she is the first thing I think about in the morning. This can’t be right…I am not a lesbian…I have a boyfriend and I am suppose to get married, have kids with the bug house and the dog in the back yard….I am not suppose to be sitting here thinking about a woman like this. How can I even be attracted to her…but…how can I not be?’

Tina needed help from a friend, Helena.

—Helena’s Apartment—

"Well, how do you feel about this whole thing?" Helena looked at a very dishevled Tina and worried.  Tina had called Helena earlier that morning and told her she would be coming over later.  When Tina got there she began to ramble on and on about her meeting with Bette.  

"How do I feel? How am I feling?  I feel like the biggest freak on the face of this earth!  I have a guy that likes me and I am sitting her thinking of this woman that I am attracted to!  and not just any woman but, the most hottest and beautiful woman I have ever seen…not that you are any less beautiful…its just that she takes my breath away…when I look into her eyes…her wonderful mocha eyes, I get this big goofy grin on my face and I just look like an idiot…I just-"

"Tina. Please stop talking for one second.  Let me tell you as a gay woman that lives in the gay community…a woman that has a cute goofy smile and be very hot." Helena smiled.  She was trying to calm Tina down.  Helena has known Tina for a long time and she knows that if tina gets too worried she starts to speak a mile a minute. "Let us just try to calm down and figure out how you are going to handle this."  

Continued……