‘What the fuck is that?’ Shane’s voice, coming close to Bette and Tina’s heads, out of the darkness of the room, made them both leap up and scream. ‘OHMYGOD!!!!’ ‘AAAARRGHGHGHGH!’ Solly barked and growled and snarled with a ferocity that Tina had only seen a couple of times in the whole seven years they’d had
Bette ’But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun.’ It can never be that Shakespeare had the same view as me, when this line came to mind. For there can never be another her, in past, present or future – the sun at the centre
Tina hears Bette’s cell phone ring, she looks at the caller ID but doesn’t recognize the number, “Bette,” she calls out up the stairs but Bette doesn’t respond. Tina goes back into the kitchen to continue with dinner. Replaying the events of the day, Jenny’s funeral, Max going into labor early, Alice and Tasha trying