Tina looked down at her food and then at Bette. She let out a small laugh.

“What’s so funny” Bette asked

“Um you have a little something on your mouth. Here let me wipe it off” Tina said reaching out to touch Bette’s face, something that she had longed to do since she first saw her that afternoon. Tina took her thumb and gently wiped the corner of Bette’s mouth. Instead of wiping it on a napkin she licked it off.

“Bette?”

“Yea T?”

“I just wanted to let you know that Eric and I are no more. I made him move out”

“OH Tina are you okay babe?”

“Yes I’m fine.”

“What happened?” Bette asked putting her hand on top of Tina’s and caressing her hand with her thumb.

“Well he just got a little controlling and annoying. Besides it was over a long time ago. I just needed the right incentive to push me in the right direction.”

“Glad I could be of help” Bette said smugly

“Who said that it was you?” Tina asked with a smile

“Your eyes said it” Bette told her “You have a certain look, I can’t explain what it is but when you look at me I know that no one else gets that look and you had it just now”

Tina couldn’t deny it. She knew that her face changed when she saw Bette or heard her name. Her heart beat a little faster and her blood raced through her veins. Whenever it came to Bette she became a medical anomaly. Something that she never wanted to change. She hoped it stayed like that forever.

Bette didn’t want to be so forward in her comment but she had to let Tina know that she was on to her. She knew she was the reason Eric got dumped. It wasn’t something that she was proud of but at the same time there wasn’t anything in this world that would keep Bette from Tina. She had spent too many lonely nights with the wrong women to give up on the one person who finally gave her a reason to finally give her heart to someone fully. Bette had never felt this way before and she thanked the gods that Eric had brought his girlfriend to her gallery. There was nothing and no one in this world that could keep her from the love of her life.