Chapter One

“Bette,” she said as strong as she could coming out of her sleep. Jodi annoyed that Bette couldn’t keep still in her sleep, gently pushed her shoulder to wake her. Bette coming out of her dreams of her, opened her eyes, pushing herself up so she could sign. “What’s wrong,” as her hands asked the same question.

Only Jodi’s hands moved, “Are you ok?”

“Why,” Bette wondered but she kinda knew. The last few nights since she got to New York something deep in her heart and her head was tugging mighty hard at her, and it wasn’t letting her get a good night’s sleep. Before thinking of a good answer, she just let go, “it’s work that’s all, I’m fine.”

Jodi looking at her and nodding, then laying back down. Bette closed her eyes as Tina’s words kept running their circles in her head, “ I shouldn’t of let you go…”

Too Many Miles Away

Tina putting Angie to sleep tried to keep herself busy so she wouldn’t think about what was going on in New York. Everything worked out well it seemed since Bette was still up there. Tina been messed up again by her feelings and didn’t know which way to go. Either hold out for her or just keep on going just as she was, but she couldn’t bring herself to make a choice.

The last time she’d been feeling messed up was when she was with Bette and her old feelings about men came creeping back up on her and things didn’t turn out so well as she hoped. Looking at Angie she knew that she was one girl whom she would love and the one who would never hurt her.

It seemed as if different circles were making their opposite way back around the old gang. Shane was in a relationship and talking about backyards and the whole kid thing. Alice was in a relationship, Helena was in one sort of, and Kit was making amends with her man, then you had Tina. Tina who used to have Bette, who now had Jodi. There was the time when everyone else was so over them being too in love all the time and now they were in the spot she thought she longed to be in.