Since when is my mind telling me what to do? I relax a bit as I feel Bette’s arm snaking around my waist, pulling me down so she can kiss me. I completely forget that I’m holding my cellphone and am supposed to be talking to someone who happens to be my boyfriend and kiss her back. The kiss turns into a very hot one and I moan slightly.

“Tina?” I hear Gary’s voice. He sounds suspicious. I immediately wake up from whatever state I am in. “Where are you? Is there someone with you?”

I look at Bette and swallow. This is really, really hard. I could tell him I’m with Bette, but it’s too late. That moan couldn’t be mistaken – if he knew I was with Bette, he would take the “she’s a friend, I had a hard time, I slept over” thing. First of all, he’d wonder why I couldn’t talk to him and we’d get a row about that. Second of all, he knows about the kiss before.

“No, I’m alone.”

Bette frowns her eyebrows and is about to say something, but I put my hand on her mouth. We’ll have to talk about this later.

“So, where are you?”

“I’m at Alice’s. I’m going to school with her.”

“Oh. Why didn’t you tell me? And what was that moan about? Those kissing sounds?”

“Well, it’s not really important, right? You just don’t have to take me. I don’t have to tell you where I go all the time, okay? It’s not like we’re married or something. And Dana just dropped by, she gave Alice a welcome kiss, so that’s what you’ve heard.”

“It was like closer to the phone.”

“Gary, I am not having this conversation. What the hell is wrong with you? Since when do you have to know where I am all the time? What are you, my spy?”

“Tina,” he says, very carefully. “Are you having… lady problems?”

“WHAT THE FUCK? Just because I tell you that we don’t have to be attached by the hip all the time and we don’t have to know every detail about where the other is and what the other does, doesn’t mean I’m having my period! Are you implying I’m being unreasonable? Because that’s not true, YOU are unreasonable. I am at Alice’s and she has a girlfriend, who is here, as I told you, and I’m not even interested in girls, and if I were, I’m not interested in Alice. Get your head out of your ass and get a life!”