A loud knock on Alice place’s door could be heard; it was Bette. Fortunately for the young journalist, Tina left the apartment just a few minutes before. She was happy she wasn’t going to assist to one hell of a fight between Bette and Tina. She loved her two friends but no one liked to be involved in those kind of wrestles. And she was totally sure Bette and Tina were capable of doing just that.

           «Alice for God’s sake, open the door! » Bette kept yelling standing behind the closed door.

           «Jeez, coming! » the blonde opened the door to a very furious Bette.

           «Where’s Tina? » the brunette let herself in without even bother to look at Alice. She just walked across the all, looking around, trying to find Tina.

           «Hello, Bette. It’s nice to see you too» Alice said with slight sarcasm in her voice. She then followed her friend.

           «Was Tina here? »

           «Um, she was, yeah» she just admitted it. She had to, she knew Bette wasn’t going to accept a ‘no’ as answer.

           «Did she tell you she wants to keep my daughter away from me? »

           «Uh, well, she doesn’t really want to— » but Bette cut her off.

           «Oh please, spare me that ‘that’s not what it looks like’ bullshit» Bette said almost on the verge of breaking something. She was standing right before a very expensive lamp and Alice actually feared she was going to see it flying across the room, so she invited her to sit on the couch for the lamp’s sake.

           «Come on, let’s sit and talk about it, okay? » the younger woman said, patting the empty spot on the couch. Bette complied and sat down, «Okay»

           «Alright, now, why do you think Tina made this decision? » she asked, really gently, trying not to upset Bette’s inner wild beast. Even though she knew why Tina did it. She just wanted to try to make Bette find the answer by herself.

           «I don’t know Alice. I mean, she didn’t show up for a whole week and then, then she appears from God knows where and tells me she’s moving to New York and Angie is going with her. Just like this. Out of the blue» Bette said, waving her hands with a frenzy that Alice could’ve sworn she’d been able to see a little tornado forming around them because of the centrifugal force.