When she woke it was bright outside and she could hear the sounds of the neighbourhood waking up and beginning their day.  She looked at the clock, it was just after 9.30, she had been asleep for only a few hours but it felt like a lifetime.  In her hand she was still holding the card she had sent to Tina while she was in New York.  It was a little crumpled now and had been smudged by her tears falling on it but it was the note that fuelled her into action.  She was going to mend what she had trashed and get her baby back.

She had to try and make Tina see that she loved her.  She had been so caught up in being the ‘Bette Porter’ everyone else thought she was that she’d forgotten who she was to herself and to the one person that actually mattered.  She had also found her new role within the relationship difficult to cope with not to mention the fact that Tina also seemed to change so much.  She just lost that connection that they used to have and then Candace showed up and it all got too much.

She jumped into the shower and quickly dressed, she then considered where Tina could be.  There was only one option, Alice.  She picked up the phone and dialled Alice‘s number.

“Bette.”

“Hey”

“Bette, what the ***** is going on?  I can’t believe this is happening.I mean, you and Tina are so.I just don’t get it, you had everythingI don’t understand what you thought you were doing.”

“Alice!  Please”  Bette couldn’t stand to hear anymore.  The thoughts she’d been having all morning were bad enough, she knew how fucked up this all was.  She didn’t need to hear that from someone else as well.  “Is she there?”

“Yeah, she’s here.”

“I can’t handle this right now; I just wanna know how she is.”

“Ok, I guess, I mean as ok as you can be when you’ve just found out your wife has been cheating on you.”

“Please Alice; I know.I know what I’ve done.”  Bette was silent for a minute as she plucked up the courage to ask, “Do you think I could come over, I really need to see her.”