“Bette, turn around.”

Bette froze at Tina’s soft spoken words, her eyes widening in fear. Not fear of Tina, but fear of what her words would lead to and fear of them messing it all up. Fear that this was all because of the illicitness of it all, of this affair, because that’s what this was, she knew it, and Tina knew it and there was a part of her that lurked in the deepest recesses of her brain that, even now, were reminding her that she liked to cheat, that it gave her a thrill.

“Look, I know you don’t want to hurt Jodi.”

At the sound of Jodi’s name falling from Tina’s lips that thought melted away in a second; Tina would never be ‘the other woman’, because deep down, in her heart of all hearts she knew that Tina was the only woman for her and that was why this was never and would never just be an affair. Her heart was beating erratically in her chest and had been since Tina had turned up at her door minutes earlier, her pulse was thrumming in her ears and her mind was whirling with images from their shared past, eclipsing every other memory, especially those that revolved around Jodi. She didn’t want to think about Jodi while Tina was there; it felt, weirdly, like she was cheating on Tina if she did. Though in reality Bette knew that it was the opposite way round, that didn’t stop her heart from feeling it.

“No, I don’t.” She said sadly, agreeing to that much while her pulse picked up again at the look in Tina’s eyes; part lust, part love and part predatory. She shuddered slightly at the feelings evoked from just that look, a part of her was nervous that if they gave in to it just what that would mean for them and by extension, for Jodi.

She was stopped from thinking when Tina came towards her, her soft lips pressing against her own in a hungry, open mouthed kiss that she responded to straight away; the feel of the love of her life plastered to her body, their tongues duelling as her hands grasped at her head back and neck, pulling her ever closer was incomparable to anything else.