Chapter 3

Day 1. Somewhere in West Hollywood

Alice had picked Tina up from the airport and taken her home to unload her bags and get changed and was now driving her to the studio for her meetings.

They had spend a lot of time talking about the new job, the movie and Sam. Alice was bursting to talk about Bette but her curious side won over as she bombarded Tina with questions.

Tina laughed as she answered one after the other, she had missed Alice.

"OK Al, I think you know every single thing that has happened to me in the last year now! Enough with the questions already! My turn"

Alice grinned. Tina noticed the goofy look – "wow she looks really really happy" she thought, Alice deserves to be happy.

"So, who’s the other half of your ‘we’?"

"Do you remember the tall, hot brunette from college? Art major, about 2 years ahead of us?"

"You know that was over a decade ago right? Are you seriously expecting me to remember?!"

"Fine! I mean you guys never met, but I think you would have seen her around campus, I’m sure I told you about my massive crush on her…"

"Alice, there was more than one tall hot brunette on campus and I’m sure you had a crush on all of them"

"Shut up!" Alice playfully swiped at Tina who ducked and laughed as she saw Alice blush.

"Ok, so does tall-hot-brunette-art-major have a name? Cos I’m thinking that’s a bit long"

"Bette Porter"

Tina thought for a moment, but no, the name did not ring a bell.

"So tell me about Bette Porter – did you know her at school or…"

"Yeah we met a couple of times and we ran into each other a few times over the years but we were never really friends. She used to have a gallery in New York and she only moved to LA about 6 months ago. She’s the Dean of the Arts department over at CU and…"

"Oooh really?"

Alice was confused as to why Tina was so excited by this piece of information, sure it was an amazing position and it showed how successful Bette was but…

"Do you think she would mind if I asked her about shooting some of the movie on campus"