CRASHING INTO YOU

Chapter 3

OMG what are they doing here?  She put her hand to her mouth.  They hadn’t seen her.  She leaned against the wall breathing heavily.  She couldn’t belive her eyes.  It had been over 17yrs since She had seen them.  Only sending a letter every so often to let them know how she was doing. And only doing this when she was on holiday.  

Her parents hadn’t seen her or if they had didn’t reconginise her.  Had she changed that much?  Where they looking for a teenage Tina? She stood by the wall shaking.  She wondered how they knew she was here, then felt dumb it would be on the news.  Would she…could she face them?  She wasn,t sure?  She nneded to get away and think.  What did she want?

She took the time to look at them.  They had both aged, but what did she expect.  Her dad looked like her had aged over 50yrs there again so did her mom.  The last time she had seen them they were screaming at her.  Her dad was completly grey and looked worn out.  he used to be so tall and strong.  Now he looked so haggered.  Not like her dad at all.  Her mom looked tired and washed out.  Had she done this to them.  She always thought of them as strong not weak like they looked.

She went to walk over to them when she felt a hand on her shoulder.  She turned round to find Bette looking at her.  The concern in her eyes evident.

"Hey you.  Are you ok?  I seem to be asking you that a lot lately."

Bette smiles.

"Yeah you do.  But I’m not complaining.  I’m ok its just….Hang on what are you doing here?  I thought you had a meeting?"

"I did but it finished earlier than I thought, so I thought I’d come see how you was doing.  If thats ok?  I don’t want to intrude."

Bette looks at the floor.

Tina moves closer to her.  

"You are not intruding. I’m just so glad you are here.  Once again your timing is excellent."  Tina laughs.

"It isn’t normally. Don’t know what has happened to me these last couple of days."