“You work in the art world and you don’t know the name Bette Porter?” Eric laughed out of embarrassment. Tina seeing the alpha female that she is for the first time. “Well I know you are the next big thing and you were the first person without a degree to be asked to be the director of the Whitney museum…why would you turn down such an opportunity?” this even had Tina surprised. “Don’t believe everything you read Eric, but if you’ll excuse me I think I see my friends leaving. Was nice meeting you Eric, Tina was a pleasure” she couldn’t have left the conversation sooner.

                                             
She dragged Alice and Shane out of their conversation with two females, “we need to leave…now!”
“Why, what happened?”
“Nothing, I just said we were leaving so we gotta go” Glancing back to see Eric and Tina leaving also. Bette fanned herself for getting so worked up. 5 years of preparation and not once did she think that maybe Tina might have found someone and moved on. She started to hysterically laugh. “What was that? I mean, I wish I could have seen my face when Eric walked up and kissed her on the cheek” her laughter faded, her friends could see that she was hurt…and going a little crazy.

“Come one let’s get you a drink” Alice found her coat. “Bette” she turned around to see Tina again, “I don’t wanna leave things in the air like that can we get together before you leave, I really think we need to talk” she handed her card to Bette, “Yeah are you free tomorrow for lunch?”
“Yeah, text me where you want to meet…I’ll see you tomorrow around 1…Bye Alice, Shane” she slipped the card into her jacket. “Bye”

Alice ordered drinks at Milk running back to hear what she and Tina had spoken about earlier. “So what happened!?” Alice sat down getting over excited to hear the story, “She didn’t get to say much cause Eric came over and interrupted us. Definitely didn’t see that one coming”
“I saw how close that guy was, who is he?” Alice moved in closer. “Well Al, seeing how he kissed her I’m going to take a wild guess and say her boy friend” Shane pointed out the obvious. “How do you feel about that though?”