Bette gets up and goes to the door, unlocks it and goes outside.
Dana, Alice, Kit and Shane watch from the window.
They watched Bette walk down towards the girl. Straight backed and business like. The girl immediately on the defensive, started waving her arms and gesturing towards the house. Dana and Alice feel Shane shrink back, they grabbed her and pulled her back, not letting go of her hands.
Bette was now obviously trying to calm the girl with reassuring nods and a calming hand on the girls back. Bette was walking, the girl listening intently. After what seemed an age, the girl lowered the placard.
Bette gave her one more reassuring pat on the back. The girl took one more look at the house and walked away. Bette stood there for a moment with her arms crossed. Then made her way back towards the house. She cam in.
Bette: “You can unlock the doors and windows, and draw up the blinds. She won’t be bothering you again Shane”
Shane: “What did you say? Who was she?”
Bette: “she was a girl that fell in love with a Lathario” Smiling, Bette walked to Shane, and drew her into an embrace. Bette felt Shane relax into her arms.: “It’s all over now baby, your safe”
Shane:” But I don’t understand, who was she?”
Bette: “She said that you had slept together about a month ago, and that she had waited all this time for you to call her. She said that she eventually started going out again, and that’s when she saw you with another girl”
Bette took a deep breath.
Bette: “Baby she fell in love with you, and she felt spurned and hurt when you didn’t call”
Alice: “well what did you say to her?”
Bette sat Shane down, and they all gathered around them.
Bette:” I told her that Shane was a free spirit and couldn’t be claimed. She dais that she loved you and that she would care for you more that anyone else would. But I told her that Shane was not for keeps, that if she experienced one night with her, that she was a lucky woman. I told her that she would find someone that would love and care for her, but that someone was not Shane”
Bette looked Shane in the eye and could see the pain just below the surface. In many ways Shane reminded Bette of herself. Not long ago in some respects still, Bette was known as a Lathario, a heart breaker. She recognised the pain in Shane’s eyes. Bette longed to be loved and to love, but never in the many women she had met, slept with or known had she seen in them ‘The one’. The one person that could make her stomach flip and her heart pound deep in her chest. She had, had many partners that satisfied in everyway but the heart. Alice was one of those, a few years back they had dated, but had ultimately decided that they both required something very different. After that they had become the best of friends, and they saw each other daily.
Bette looked at Shane again, the pain gone from her eyes, knowing that Shane had locked it away in a box.
Bette: “One day Shane, one day”
Kissing her on the cheek, Bette rose and walked towards the kitchen.
Bette: “slippery nipples anyone?”
They all laughed and followed Bette as the smell of food reminded them all that there was treats of excessive goodness to gorge on.