This was the first day that Tina had spent by herself without Eric or Bette; it gave her time to think clearly about what was going on without feeling pressured one way or the other. She sat outside by the pool still in her PJ’s, it was the best way to collect her thoughts. After all she couldn’t continue going the way she was – Bette was going back to New York in 2 days therefore she had some decisions to make. Not only that she had been with Eric too long and cared for him too much to keep doing this to him behind his back.

Things had been a little off lately between them but Tina thought it was just a phase and it would pass but it hadn’t. Then Bette came along and resurfaced all these old feelings she thought she had forgotten about. Was this thing with Bette just a replacement? She never thought about cheating on Eric before.

Although the days she had shared with Bette were incredible, she’d never felt a love quite like it but their relationship would be too complicated, would Bette really give up her job in New York – would she be happy if she did? Would I be happy living in New York?! Could I do that to Eric and his family?  She loved Eric after all she had shared 3 years with this man. They’d been on holiday together, their living together, they’ve talked about marriage and kids – does Bette even want kids?’

His future is mapped out for him; he belongs to a wealth family that bought them the house they currently lived in. For the first date they went on he had promised Tina a lot of things for her future, even though money wasn’t that important it did mean that they would see the world and have the finer things in life, Tina wanted that but it wouldn’t matter if her and Bette didn’t.

There was her answer. It didn’t matter if she never left the house ever again as long as she was with Bette. Their chemistry was different; it was as if they were made for each other. The key fact Tina was missing was that she knew Bette way before she knew Eric, Bette was always entertaining and treated Tina as if she was the only woman in the room her eyes never wondered away from hers and it made her feel a different kind of love than what she felt with Eric.