I couldn’t answer her, she was right but my lapse in judgement brought me back into her arms, tasting her lips…

“Bette?”

Sucking on my bottom lip like a child who has just been caught out, I took the safe option “I like your bed” I moved towards her and kissed her check. The way she said my name, I knew she wanted me to stop but how could I? I knew there was another question approaching. I lingered at her check but this time she moved away from me.

“You can’t just kiss it better”

“You feel better when I do”

Tina sighed, she was fighting between her heart and her head, just like my own inner turmoil “Do you want me to leave?” I was giving her the option because I was hoping she would see that I had changed.

“I don’t know. When your here… it just complicates things but in saying that when you aren’t here I wish that you were”

“I feel the same way. My feelings for you are still the same, they never left and never were far from my mind. Carly was suppose to be that person but then you came along and everything changed”

She just stared at me absently

“You really really thought I was crazy, didn’t you? You thought you had me figured out”

“Then you surprised me” I finished her train of thought.

“How about this one?” I asked, knowing it would again be the same answer as the twenty times before. The fact that Carly thought I would even be interested in shopping for a engagement cake with Tina was absorb. The woman had no taste in the finer things in life.

She turned quickly and walked towards me “It’s kinda..”

“What?” I say in a hasty tone

“Blah”

“Blah? Your vocabulary is outstanding”

Her blonde hair bounced as she shrugged “You asked me opinion”

“I asked because it is important to Carly that we get along. It’s the only reason I would agree to come here with you”

Her frowned brow raised slightly “You really are a ray of sunshine, aren’t you Porter” I then noticed her eyes deflect, I followed her vision and I wasn’t all surprised

“You can’t even go an hour without setting your eyes on someone”