“I studied film and media for almost 2 years” there was a long silence between the two neither knowing if they should mention where Tina actually was all this time. “Look” they both said at the same time, smiling at one another Bette let her go first, “I know this is awkward, the way things ended between us and I apologise for not contacting you and shutting myself off from you, it’s not how I wanted to leave things between us” her neck starting to redden Bette had to stop her.

“Tina, it would have been nice to say goodbye to you properly” Bette flashed a smile masking her pain. “But really we would have had to leave each other either way. We’ve both moved on since then right” not sure whether that was a statement or a question, “yeah…right” Tina mumbled sipping on her wine.

“So you never actually told me about New York?” Bette explained her job and what the city was like, every now and then there was intense eye contact that they were finding hard to break. “It sounds like you are doing well for yourself, I’m really happy that things worked out for you, you deserve it…”

“…Ok I’m just going to say it because it’s hovering in the air and we aren’t addressing it. I don’t want to ruin this night for you but I came here hoping you’d be here…” causing Tina to smile, it was so sweet of her, “Because I need to know how you could shut me out so easily knowing we might not see each other again, I dunno if I was just young and stupid but I thought we were great together” Tina’s eyes started to water knowing if they bumped into each other that night they would have to talk about it at some stage.

“That’s why you came?” feeling a little disappointed. Bette knew that wasn’t why but didn’t want to let Tina know that. “Honey, you told me to go get the car ages ago, I’ve been waiting outside” A tall blonde man placed his arm on Tina’s lower back. “Bette this is Eric…Eric this is Bette Porter” he extended his hand for her, “nice to meet you Ms. Porter… where have I heard that name before? Oh do you work for the Whitney? I work at the LA county museum of art”