Before Tina could continue, Bette silenced her with a kiss.

“Yes.”

Kiss.

“Yes.”

When she heard the front door opening, Bette’s heart started racing. She suddenly felt very nervous telling her sister about her relationship and what would be happening in the following weeks. It was one thing to say you’ve got a girlfriend, but that girlfriend being your former teacher and moving in during he weekends with her after having been together for only a few weeks was something else entirely.

She took a deep breath and walked over to the kitchen, where she knew she would find her older sister with a cup of coffee she had bought on the way back. She was right. She pulled a chair from under the table and sat down. Kit noticed that she was going to say something important immediately.

“Speak up.”

Bette folded her hands and let her thumbs chase one another. She bit her lower lip, suddenly blushing. She had rehearsed this so many times and she knew Kit would love her regardless, but somehow that didn’t make it any easier. She threw her head back and let out a loud sigh.

Now or never.

“TinaImeanmsKennardandIhavebeentogetherforsomeweeksandImgoingtoyaleandshesmovingtonewhavenbutimgonna
trycampusfirstandherappartmentduringtheweekends.”

“Okay, I got very few words from that; what did you say?”

Bette gave Kit a pleading look, almost begging her not to ask her to repeat it again. She sighed again – it felt like the 100th time that day – and did as she was asked.

“Remember that night of the graduation, when I got home really really late? You know, as in the following day?”

“Sure. I was worried sick and you wouldn’t answer your cellphone.”

“I spent the night with Ms Kennard – Tina.” Bette saw the look on Kits face. “No, no, not like that! We didn’t have sex or anything! Anyway, we confessed our feelings to each other and wanted to see where this thing we felt would take us. We’ve been together ever since. Anyway, I’m going to Yale so that’s the other side of the country. Tina decided to move there. I’m going to spend my first semester or my first year on campus and spend the weekends at her place. That way, we kinda live together but in weekends only. We get to know what it’s like and explore our relationship and if turns out that it doesn’t work, I still have campus. We were thinking that if we were still together after I finished my education, we could go to New York. There are lots of museums there and stuff.”

“Wow, is she willing to do all that for you? Keep moving, keep applying for new jobs in new places all the time?”

Bette grinned. “She’s amazing.”

“I can only conclude that she must really love you then. And if she does, who am I to condemn your relationship or say it’s not right? I must admit that it shocks me, after all she’s been your teacher for two years. So you didn’t know she was into you?”

Bette shook her head. “Not until she told me.”

Kit smiled. “I gotta say, I’m gonna miss you girl!”

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In the mean while, Tina was telling Helena the same story. When she was finished, the blonde expected her friend to be very much surprised at the turn of events, but she just had a knowing smirk gracing her lips.

“Helena… what is it that I don’t know?”

Helena smiled. “Nothing honey, why would you think that?”

“The look on your face. Come on, tell me!”

Helena sighed. “Okay. I knew Bette was in love with you. She told me this school year.”

“What! Why didn’t you say something? You knew how I felt as well!”

Helena rolled her eyes. “Come on, Tina, get real! What had you expected? That I would tell you? It’d only make things harder. You would know she felt the same and see her every day and talk to her and you still couldn’t be a couple! It would have only been painful.”

Tina rubbed her forehead. “I guess you’re right.”

Helena smiled. “Anyway, I’m really happy for you. I’m gonna miss you though. Are you really sure you want to do all this for her? What if it doesn’t work out?”

“If it doesn’t, I’d be no better off here where every memory of her would haunt me. It would still be better to have a new life. But I don’t think I should worry about that – I never felt like this before.”