Bette and Tina successfully ignored what had happened yesterday. That was the phenomenon of neighbours, you can ignore anything and still get along somehow. Leadning
up to their lunch Bette spent most of her morning working really hard…and trying to stamp out her mortification. How could see open herself up so soon and to such a new person?
She should save that kind of personal things for her husband or better yet her friends. Well, Bette didn’t really have that much friends. She had aqquaitnances, people who she was
friendly too. She maybe grabbed a coffee with them, chatted, but not really the deep conncection with another person, a woman friend. It was just the way it turned out. It was aprt
of Bette’s nature to be aloof. Not aloof in the usual sense, because she stuck her nose in everything and was quite the curator and social master. But aloof in the sense that even though
people talked to her, saw her smile at them, saw her look at them, listen to them…there was distance. One stood beside Bette felt that vibe like she was world’s apart. And she
usually was, slightly out of place with another person. Her father was the only one whom she felt completely comfortable. She knew what pissed him off and what pleased him. But
Bette wasn’t even talking to him that much, she didn’t want to. Her mother’s note was always weighing heavily when she attempted to pick up the phone. So being distant with the
world wasn’t that hard. Was that why she was so into S&M? Psshhh….yeah right. She wans’t one of those losers who had to feel pain to feel anything. Maybe because it affected her
so much for those moments. Whatever it all was Bette chose to ignore it. She chose to open her imaginary envelope and stick it in there. She stuck her conversation with Tina into
that envelope too. Somewhere else Tina did the same.

 ”Hey you…how’s work?” Bette said this quietly, she was talking to Paxton on her cellphone while on her way to meet Tina for lunch. “Im fine” Bette winced at the coldness
in his voice. “Pax…c’mon, spit it out will you? tell me how you hate me and want to divorce me?” Bette heard him laugh, she was always goading him like this. The bantering was something
that was laways changing in their marriage, maybe the only thing that was changing besides Bette herself. “yeah well i have no intention of divorcing or leaving you sweetheart, i just..
don’t feel good about what happened last night” Paxton said this quietly, Bette could hear his co-workers talking in the background. “Im sorry Pax, i don’t know what came over me…you
see, i saw this…..book at the library (Bette winced at her lie) and well, i wanted to try it out and i got carried away” Paxton sighed into the phone…”Bette, we can talk right? i mean
i hope im not so horrible at listening that you chose not to really discuss it with me before, im willing to do anything to please you but i just dont like it when unexpected things jump
up and bite me in the ear!” Bette laughed, she could hear Paxton smiling practically. “Well i’ll see later tonight, im on my way to lunch with the new neighbour Tina” Bette parked in
front of the coffee place. “ok then…you have fun i have to go and write a review for this piece of ***** book” Paxton said goodbye and Bette closed her cellphone. She felt a bit
better. The guitar screamings of Trail of Dead music blasted her ears when she opened the door. Bette looked around and spotted tina’s golden hair with her nose in a newspaper.
Bette quickly ordered a double cappucino and sidled up to her neighbour. Bette was determined to get to know this woman, she was tired of being talked about as the “Cold One”.
When Bette sat down and put her purse on the table Tina looked up.