Bette threw the magazine down. “Fuck!” She cursed aloud. She had seen the video and had read almost every article written about Tina and her. She sat down on the couch and laid her head in her hands. It was hard enough to discover you like women without the whole world knowing about it and watching it… repeatedly. The vid was now also on YouTube. 1 508 029 hits, to Bette, that was fucking much. The one who made this video would be dead if she ever knew who he or she was. Who did such a thing? They had never pissed someone off right? Was it just for money or the thrill? How could she find out who did it? What did they have to say to the press? Would they lose fans? Would it be bad for the show ratings? She sighed. She needed someone… Just when she was about to call her sister, there was a knock on the door. She called the person in and it was Tina.

“Hey, are you okay?” She asked.

Bette didn’t react. Tina closed the door and walked over to Bette. She sat next to the woman and laid her hand on Bette’s back.

“Hey, you’ll get through this… We’ll get through this.” Tina told her. Bette looked up.

“I don’t know, Tina.” Bette said.

“I do and I’m telling you we will get through this. In a few days, there will be other news shocking the world and we’ll be long forgotten.” Tina smiled.

Bette looked at Tina and she smiled a little. “Maybe you are right.”

“We will have to respond to it or it’ll seem like we are ashamed, you know?” Tina told Bette.

“I know we should but… I don’t know what to say.” Bette told Tina.

“I think that it should be something that says the video is not fake, so that we really kissed but that we haven’t decided what we are going to do now.”

Bette frowned. “We haven’t?”

“Not that I know of.”

Bette looked at Tina. “Well, I would… like to, you know, date you.”

Tina grinned. “Even if everyone knows about it?”

Bette took Tina’s hands and just held it and looked at it. “I just can’t keep thinking about what others think of me. People, who really love me, will stick with me. My real fans will stay and the rest… Well, I don’t need them. Above everything, I want to see if we can be something. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life thinking about ‘what could have been’. I don’t want to miss the chance to be with you.”