“We have plans at the country club with my parents, it’s a very big event Tina you have to be there we can’t cancel now”
“You go, I’m not in the mood to play happy families tomorrow for your parents” The tense between the two was growing more and more each day, Tina didn’t know how much longer she could be with him especially when she seemed to be having more fun with Bette in the last 2 days than she had the last 5 years with Eric

Eric got ready in the guest house away from Tina, they hadn’t spoken since last night, not that they had anything else to say to each other. She kept her mind on what she would wear tonight she had chosen the restaurant so she knew what was appropriate to wear. So many things were running through Tina’s mind throughout the day about how different her life could have turned out if Bette had decided to stay, it was selfish to think like that knowing that Bette had a great life in New York but she couldn’t help wonder what it would have been like.

Her mind and heart had been arguing all day. She liked her life, her career was just starting to take off and it’s what she needed to keep her mind off things at home. Eric is a great guy, supportive, financial wealthy…well his parents are, she got to meet amazing artists because of the dinner parties they were invited to, although no doubt she would be at major dinners and art opens if she was still with Bette. In the long run she knew things with Eric were just easier, did she really want that sort of life?

She sat down in front of the dresser where she would apply her make-up; she sat staring at herself in the mirror. It was an outer body experience seeing how lonely the girl in the reflection looked, usually others would comment on how sad or happy you are but it was obvious to her.

Bette ran around her hotel room trying to find the matching shoe to what she had on. They were the same as the ones she was wearing when she went out with the girls and brought Tina back to her hotel room. Trying to retrace the steps she took that night she couldn’t help but smile remembering how Tina lay so peacefully in her sleep. ‘Snap out of it Porter’ She found the shoe under a pile of covers next to the bed.