Today had been one of those days where Fanny had been giving her the feeling that she would never make a good curator. She had barely seen Derek, but only got remarks from him about spelling mistakes in reports and not knowing that a certain client was so important that she had to let him talk to Derek, even when he had said that he wasn’t to be disturbed under any circumstances. It had been three weeks since she had seen Alex and the past two weekends, she hadn’t seen Tina either. The first weekend Bette had been too busy herself with the big show coming up on Thursday and the next, Tina had been away with school for a weekend Bette didn’t even know the details of. Tina hadn’t come to New York yet, despite the fact that she had insisted numerous times. Bette just didn’t want her to see this lousy appartment and get worried about Bette. Sure, Tina knew things weren’t as good as they had seemed in the beginning, but she had no idea how Bette truly felt. Bette just didn’t want things to change for now, she had to get herself through this and she was sure it would get better. She was counting down the days until Fanny left, which was four weeks away now. But she counted down to the weekend even more, when she would go to New Haven.

Coming back there always made her feel alive, almost as if her heart lept a little in her chest. She loved the town she knew so well, she loved to go on walks she knew so well, to spend hours in that bookstore again with Tina, to have dinner at her favourite restaurant. It was like coming back to the days when everything was better.

Bette looked up in surprise when she heard a knock on her door. As far as she knew, only her colleagues knew her address and they never came to visit her. She hadn’t made new friends in New York, simply because her days were filled with work. She got up from the couch and went to the door to look through the peephole and to her surprise, she saw a very dishevelled-looking Alexandra. The blonde was just about to knock again when Bette opened the door, which caused Alexandra’s clenched fist to land somewhere on Bette’s shoulder.