Tina was barely able to hold back her tears. Bette never ceazed to amaze her with her perfect words, her utter sweetness and love oozing from everything she said. She still couldn’t believe she had been so lucky, so very lucky to actually call this young woman hers. She knew exactly how to reassure her when the insecurities Eric had left her with long time ago, kicked in again. She was over it, she had dealt with it, but sometimes it still came up.

“Now let’s go to bed and show each other how much we love each other.”

“It’s still early…”

“So? We’ll make it an all-nighter. We can do the dishes in the morning,” Bette read Tina’s mind. The blonde grinned. She knew exactly how to bring Bette to heaven again.

>>>

The following day, Bette met Alexandra in the main hall of the building. The brunette knew she probably had a goofy grin on her face when she saw Alexandra’s raised eyebrows as she approached her. They had had sex all night and Bette had woken up with Tina’s fingers deep inside of her. After the dishes, they had taken their showers together and of course that resulted in another session.

“I guess your better half is carrying the same grin this morning?”

Bette didn’t know why, but she really thrusted Alexandra. She had told her the Tamara-story at first, explaining goofy grins by Tamara coming to New Haven as she had her own car. This fictional girlfriend didn’t have many classes and organised her school work so that she could go and see her girlfriend every once in a while.

But Bette had felt bad about not being truthful about her relationship. Her mind told her it was too early to tell Alexandra, she didn’t know her well enough and she couldn’t risk ruining everything for Tina and her, she also didn’t want the news to reach Emily’s ear. Her heart, however, told her that she could thrust this new friend of hers.

“Are you still on for tonight?” Bette asked as they were heading towards the auditorium.

“Sure, I can’t wait to meet Tina.”

“She invited some others as well – Sam, how they met is a story in it’s own and you have to hear it from one of them, and Sams boyfriend, Dave. Tina will be making all kinds of Italian food and I tried some yesterday and it was absolutely delicious.”

“So you decided to reward her?” Alexandra smirked.

Bette blushed and quickly changed the subject a bit. “You can still bring Nathan if you want.”

“I don’t think so.” 

Bette looked up in surprise. In a matter of seconds, Alexandra had grown cold, an ice queen. As if she couldn’t care about Nathan – who she had previously claimed to be the love of her life – less.

“Did something happen?”

Alexandra sighed. “Not really, no… but he’s calling with this girl Eve all the time! He texts her as well, all the time. He’s always holding his cellphone, jumps up when it’s her like he’ll die if he doesn’t answer in two seconds… I don’t know what’s going on and he never wants to talk about, always saying I’m not his mommy – he doesn’t have to justify any actions, that stuff.”

“That does suck. Wait – did you say Eve?”

“Yeah?” Alexandra looked up and for a moment, she spooked Bette because she looked so much like her Tee in that moment.

“Interesting…”

“Why?”

“There’s an Eve in the dorm next to mine and bitchiness runs in the family. It’s a long story, though… I’ll tell you sometime.”

“Okay,” Alexandra answered, still frowning.

Of course Bette wouldn’t tell anything about Eric and Tina and Susan if she didn’t have Tina’s approval. She tried to let the matter go, but that proved to be very hard. She would talk to Tina about it later.