CHAPTER 5

Tina rested her head on her hand, absent-mindedly doodling in her International Law textbook. The professor was boring as fuck and she was seriously wondering how she would physically get through the next two hours. The buzzing of her phone was the most exciting part of her day so far, so she eagerly read the text.

From: Porter

I like how you scratch the right side of your nose when you’re nervous. It’s adorable. X

Tina didn’t know whether she was annoyed at Bette’s persistence, surprised because of her roommate knowing this or really flattered. She had just decided that a mix would do when she got a new text:

From: Porter

Also, your ass is the shit. X

Tina rolled her eyes and didn’t answer. She didn’t delete it either. After all, it was good for her ego. It’d be a good text to look up when she was feeling bad about herself. Right?

She distracted herself further by thinking back to how she even got here with Bette. They had been friends since high school, but that had it been all it was back then – friends. Especially during their senior year, she had become closer again with Bette and Nadia. When the school year ended, Bette and Nadia had broken up because of the different paths life would take them after high school. Bette always said it was a mutual decision and they were still friends, but Nadia had once accidentally slipped and told Tina that she had broken up because she didn’t want Bette to follow her to L.A. and put her own dreams on hold. They still talked over the phone from time to time and it always left the brunette in a mess.

After Nadia, Bette pretty much pretended that she had no interest in sleeping with girls. At least as far as Tina knew, Bette had only slept with guys after Nadia.

Tina and Bette had applied for many colleges and they had both got into this one. Once it was decided they would both pick the same one, they requested to be roommates. It was somewhere in March of their first year on a very high school-ish party that they had first kissed. Someone had had the brilliant idea of playing Truth or Dare. Bette had of course picked Dare and a total perv had dared her to French kiss Tina.