“Yes. She didn’t say anything, but then when I…” Bette trailed off obviously ashamed of herself.

“Come on,” Jay encouraged, “you can tell me.”

“When I told her I wanted to be there too, she got very excited,” Bette confessed.

“Whoa, Bette are you serious?” Jay said in shock, “you offered to have a threesome with her and another man, just to please her?”

“You see that’s exactly what I can’t do,” Bette said, “I can’t lose her again. So I’ll take it. I’ll share her with a man if I have to, so long as she stays by my side.”

“Jesus, Bette what the hell happened to you?” Jay said moving over to pull Bette into a hug.

Bette immediately felt comforted by his strong arms, just as she always did whenever her best friend was near. “But Jay, I’m so confused right now?” Bette whimpered.

“What do you mean?” Jay said, “don’t tell me you’re having feelings for men too?”

“That’s impossible!” Bette said with a scoff, “I’m confused because Tina got so excited. Very excited. I hadn’t seen her that excited in years. Not even when we had sex did she show that much excitement.”

“Hmm, that’s strange,” Jay observed.

“Tell me about it!” Bette said, “she said she wants to have a date night tonight so we can go scope out potential men at a straight bar. I couldn’t do that without talking to you first, I don’t know what to do.”

“Hmm,” Jay said. Bette could tell he was really struggling with this. He, for the first time, was completely stumped by Tina’s behavior. “There’s a possibility that this is a phase,” Jay said, “there’s one thing for sure though, if she wants you involved in the encounter it means that she is still attracted to you.”

“So there’s a chance she’s just turning bisexual?” Bette said.

“Or just wanting to experiment,” Jay said, “honestly I wouldn’t be able to give you an accurate analysis unless I speask with her directly and try to probe her brain.”

“You’re good at that,” Bette said with a smile.

Jay smiled in appreciation and said, “you know, it wouldn’t be suspicious if you invited me over to your house. I could talk to Tina directly and try to figure out what the hell is up.”