She found her beauty out by the pool, with a paint brush in her hand.

Bette smiled as she saw Tina approach.

Bette: “hey gorgeous, did you sleep well?”

Tina settled herself on a lounger, she pulled her feet up and under her.

Tina: “mmmm, why didn’t you wake me?”

Bette: “you looked so beautiful and calm, I thought I’d leave you to wake up naturally.”

Tina: “so you’ve started to paint then?”

Bette sighed: “yep, 1 of 5 I need to do”

Tina: “any idea on subjects?”

Bette: “well…. I have had a few ideas, but I wanted to run them past you first”

Tina frowned: “ok, shoot”

Bette picked up her sketch pad, and moved over to sit next to Tina.

She passed the book to Tina. Tina opened the first page and gasped.

Tina: “this is me”

Bette nodded. Tina turned to the next drawing…. This one was also of her, but a different angel than the first one. She went through all of the pictures.

Tina looked at Bette: “ you want to paint these for the gallery?”

Bette nodded: “ but only with your permission, I know some of them are a bit risqué but they will be done taste fully”

Tina looked back to the drawings: “I am flattered Bette really”

Bette: “can I paint them?”

Tina just nodded: “you really see me like this?”

Bette: “yes, you are so beautiful, every part of you. And to capture that beauty in a painting would be amazing. Are you sure?”

Tina kissed Bette lightly on the lips: “of course I don’t mind.”

Bette: “ thanks……. If you had said no I don’t know what I would have done”

Tina fell silent and looked out over the pool.

Bette: “hey baby, what are you thinking about?”

Tina sighed and looked at Bette: “Fred and Loo”

Bette frowned, Tina loved the creases in Bette’s forehead when she did that: “who?”

Tina: “exactly Bette”

Bette: “I’m confused” Bette stroked a stray hair from Tina’s face.

Tina: “Fred and Loo are my friends from Uni, we have known each other for 10 years.”

Bette: “you’ve never mentioned them”

Tina: “That’s the problem Bette, we are close, or at least i thought we were. But I never mentioned them to you, and having dinner with Shane and the others last night made me realise that even more”