Tina nodded at Bette, and with a smile, encouraged her to speak.

“Tina come and sit down.”

They walked back over to the table and after helping Tina sit down, she pulled her chair closer to Tina’s and sat down beside her. Taking Tina’s hands in her own, Bette began to speak, hoping to convey her deepest and inner most thoughts to the one woman she had always loved. The one she would always love no matter what.

“T, when I think back to the day I met you, it always brings a smile to my lips. It was one of the most amazing days of my life. You innocently walked into my gallery and turned my whole world upside down. No one had ever had the effect on me like you did that day. I remember the shock waves that coursed through my body when I first shook your hand. I felt a surge of energy with you that I had simply never experienced with anyone previously. You quite honestly, ‘rocked my world’. I didn’t do relationships, well at least not serious ones. I had never looked for commitment, or stability, but when you came into my life……..I for the first time began to have these thoughts. It scared the daylights out of me. I do not know what it was about you, or why it happened, but I just knew that night after you left, that I simply had to see you again. I wanted to get to know you. I wanted to know everything there was to know about Tina Kennard.”

Tina smiled at Bette, thinking to herself about her reaction to Bette Porter that very same night. It had been a shock to have felt an attraction for another woman. The tension between them had been palpable. Everyone in the room around them could feel the energy they shared. There was an aura about Bette Porter that she simply was unable to ignore.

Bette continued….”when we started to date, I just wanted to spend every waking minute with you. I wanted to experience life through your eyes, to share in every laugh, share in every tear, every sorrow. I had never dated anyone like you before. It was if we had just clicked.