“Really?” said Tina intrigued instead of scared off.  Never having been adventurous, Tina was starting to feel reckless in her life and maybe a dose of Amy Astin was what she needed.

            “You can’t see the track marks any more, but they were there, and I fought those demons, if it hadn’t been for Darci, Emma, and yes, you-know-who, I might very well be dead.  But I’m not, instead, I’m here with you, having my very first evening out as a free woman,” said Amy raising her glass to Tina.

            Tina tapped her glass to Amy’s, “So the divorce is final?”

            “Signed, sealed and delivered.  Bang, I didn’t lose my shirt either, since we got married in Texas of all places.  I’m still getting used to not having my wedding ring on,” admitted Amy with reluctance.

            “I know that feeling,” sighed Tina almost saying more, but resisting, knowing the rules.  “I cried when I took mine off.”

            “I gave mine to Tegan and she gave this one back to me,” said Amy, on her left thumb rested a silver ring with faint engravings sat on her thumb.  “I think she’s got some romantic notions about who I really am.”

            “What is it?” asked Tina taking her drink and finishing it off.

            “It’s the ring that you-know-who gave me, we exchanged rings when we were in high school.  An eternity band with the word soul mate in Chinese lettering, and her’s is a lump of rounded titanium around her daughter’s neck,” snorted Amy.  “Pounded it into a pulp, or so Spencer said.  It hangs with an ankh that she also gave me, she was the romantic, not me.”

            “Wow,” whispered Tina.  “I have mine in a box on my dresser.  You-know-who had hers around her neck for a while, then it was gone, I don’t know where it is… why is it that when women break up, it’s always vicious?  OR we end up being friends with our ex’s?”

            “Because we are women, as you can see, I’m not the friend making type,” said Amy as the waitress came over for another round of orders.  Tina ordered the Hungarian Hulk and Amy ordered the Belgian Blue Blazer, neither knowing what was in the drinks, just liking the sound of them.