Their dinners now completed, Bette and Tina sat back in their booth together, and Tina immediately snuggled into her wife.

”Look at all the happy couples, Bette.” She whispered after a couple seconds, “So young and full of hope and promise. And love. That’s all that really matters, right? Love. Because love can make people do things they don’t really want to do. But it can also give people a high like they’ve never experienced before. It’s really amazing, you know.”

“I know.” Bette responded, voice equally quiet, kissing her wife’s hand.

Norah Jones’ Come Away With Me came on over the speakers, and a grin grew on Bette’s face. She stood up, tugging on Tina’s hand.

“Dance with me, Tee?”

Tina giggled.

“I would love to.”

They stood in the middle of the dance floor. As they swayed to the music, Bette suddenly felt a wet spot growing on her shoulder. She pulled back, seeing tears streaming down Tina’s face.

“Oh, fuck, Tee, baby, are you OK?” she asked, pulling back and wiping the tears from her eyes.

“Can we go home now?”

“Of course we can go home, baby. Come on.”

Shane knocked loudly on the door. It opened and a chuckle was emitted from the woman standing on the other side of the door.

”I suppose you wanna talk about Carmen, huh?” The woman asked.

“Kind of. I… I just need to know where she lives.” Shane asked pleadingly.

“Oh, yeah. I heard you asked her about that. Freaked her out.”

“Did it? Fuck. Look, you said you were pulling for us. You were trying to help us get back together. Is that true?”

“Yeah.”

“Then just tell me where she lives.”

The other woman sighed and shifted her weight around.

“OK… but you didn’t hear it from me, all right?”

“Of course not! Thank you so much, Mercedes.”

“Not a problem.” Mercedes handed a small piece of paper to Shane. “But seriously, don’t tell her. She’d kill me.”

“I promise. See ya.”

“Bye.”

“Tina,” Bette glanced over at her wife, still trying to focus on the road, making sure not to hit anything or anyone. “Are you OK?”