Bette:  “You want anything?”

Carmen:  “Beer?”

Bette:  “BRB”

Bette brought the beer back and she and Carmen shared a drink.  Carmen was just putting  on the records and allowing them to play through.  She was in no mood to do her usual mixing and cross fading.   Bette intended on leaving soon after she arrived but 2 drinks and 3 beers later she and Carmen were still talking.

Carmen:  “I don’t understand why.  Why cant she can’t choose.  I know Sheri meant a lot to her but she hurt her badly too.  Why would she go back to that?  Especially after it was so hard for her to open up to me afterwards.”

Bette:  “I dunno.  You have to understand when your heart is telling you something its hard to tell your head otherwise.  You should know that, you had no intention of being with Shane initially but your head lost that battle.”

Carmen:  “You’re right again.  Whey does this have to be so hard?!”

Bette smiles at her.

Bette:  “Its life it’s not meant to be easy.

They both stopped and shared a lingering look.  It was getting late.  Bette had stayed for almost all of Carmen’s shift.

Bette:  “How’d you get here?”

Carmen:  “Cab”

Bette:  “Ok well, I’ll wait for you since we’re going to the same place.”

Carmen:  “That may not be for much longer, but thanks.  Matter of fact I’ll call it an early night I can leave this spinning and it’ll stop by itself.”

They exited the club and got into Bette’s car.  Bette wasn’t the most sober she had ever been but she was able to get them home safely.  They talked about their current relationship problems.  They were each in the opposite shoes of the other.  So their insight helped each other greatly.  They had pulled into the drive way between the two homes long ago but sat talking for a little while.

Bette:  “whoa!  Its 4 a.m.  I must be talking your ear off.”

Carmen:  “No I think I’m doing all the talk here.  It’s just refreshing to be able to speak to someone about this that has first hand experience. You know?”