“Alright Alice let’s hear the real story ok. Not the time you held hands with that girl freshman year in high school, totally does not count,” Bette said and grinned.

“Fuck off,” she said and stuck her tongue out at Bette, “anyway, my real coming out story? That happened in college. My boyfriend Greg and I had this band called Butter. And we played every weekend at The Tap Room which was like our little bar on campus. It was three guys and me. And, I don’t know, I wasn’t that into it, but, Greg thought we could go all the way. But anyway, our bass player quits one day and were panicked because we had this awesome gig the next weekend.”

“It was a campus battle of the bands thing,” Bette chimes in, “we used to have the same thing at Harvard, it was quite fun.”

“Who’s telling this story,” Alice asks, and Bette holds her hands up in surrender, “so anyway we had three days to find a new one. So, we hold these auditions, and all these guys come and they couldn’t play bass to save their lives. And then Tayo walks on stage. Gorgeous brunette, with a stunning smile, a cute laugh and a body to die for.”

“Alice,” Tasha said getting her attention; she was smiling at her memory.

“Where was I? Oh right Tayo. Anyway of course we picked her, well I picked her, and she actually played bass well. Anyway, the battle came up and there were a lot of people there. We’re famous in our little college universe. I mean, people are coming just to see us. And me and Tayo? We had amazing chemistry on stage. During my guitar riff, we played facing each other, and she smiled at me. Soon as she did that, I knew I was in trouble and we kissed. We had stopped playing by that time, but no one cared, all we heard was hoots and hollers. After we parted, I was embarrassed because it was so public and I never thought I was gay gay, you know? Anyway, I broke up with Greg to see about this gay thing. But alas, Tayo and I only lasted about 2 months. After me, she went through every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered organization on campus. Totally broke my heart.”