As Bette let her thoughts quieten, she felt a gaze on her, a slow lingering gaze. She looked up and was utterly surprised to see who it was. Helena? Curious, Bette caught the blue eyes with hers…funny; she never noticed Helena’s eyes before. Bette arched and eyebrow- what? ­– and smirked as she saw Helena avert her eyes quickly.

Helena looked down and blushed furiously at having Bette catch her staring. She busied herself fiddling with her tea cup oh god oh god what will she be thinking?! Fuck! Oh at least no one else noticed! She peered up at the rest- They did??!­– they were all looking at her expectantly. “What?”

A bubbly laugh erupted from the gorgeous Latina sitting on Shane’s knee. Carmen. “My my Helena, what’s got you so preoccupied that you didn’t even hear me?! I said, aren’t you still on a call?”

Embarrassed and confused at the same time, Helena said “Huh?” and looked down and realised. “Oh this…right…yeah…I mean, no…I wasn’t on a call…just…forgot to…take it off” Helena sighed dejectedly as she sat back and clipped the phone shut. Estelle would kill her for cutting her off but that was if Helena didn’t die sooner from all this nervous anxiety she was going through now!

“You alright Helena?” Tina peered across Alice, concerned. As Tina looked at her, she marvelled how she felt absolutely no attraction to this woman she couldn’t have enough of just a year ago. It wasn’t that Helena had changed, she looked as stunning as ever, but…Tina thought of another stunning woman she was no longer attracted to, someone she couldn’t have enough of for over 8 years. Once again, the little voice in Tina’s head reminded her that she owed to Bette and to herself to sort it out. But right now, the one thing that was more confusing that her sexuality was Helena. “You’re looking a little…”

“Loopy” offered Alice.

Helena laughed “Hah! Why, thank you Alice. But no, I’m alright thanks. Just having a bad day, that’s all”

~~~

Bad day indeed, Estelle wasn’t having the most peachy day either. She sat in their car, parked in the Planet’s parking lot, impatient and crampy from crouching in the backseat. Whoever said Aston Martins were luxurious cars? It certainly wasn’t luxurious now, but then again it was probably not made with special attention to your comfort while you hid in the backseat waiting for your twin to return from her escapades. To top it off, Helena had hung up on her! Hung up! After bloody aaaaages of not saying a word into the phone- she was probably ogling that Bette all that time too! And now she didn’t know what the hell was going on in there! Estelle fumed and pouted for a bit more before saying “Right, that’s it! I’m going in.”

~~~

Laughing along with the rest of them, Helena sat back and thought happily. These girls are great! I can’t believe Estelle found them! As if on cue, her phone started ringing, the caller ID indicating it was indeed her sister. Excusing herself, Helena turned to a side and answered the call

“I’m here, I’m in the restrooms!” came Estelle’s voice

“WHAT?!” exclaimed Helena, drawing looks from everyone at the table. She mouthed a ‘sorry’ to them and walked a few feet away. “What are you doing?! What if somebody sees you?”

“Just get over here! Walk towards the back, you’ll see a sign” with that, she ended the call.

Helena hurried towards the back and followed the sign to the restrooms. She walked in and found one stall occupied.

A familiar voice whispered “is that you?”

“Yes it’s me!” Helena pulled her sister out from the stall and spoke quickly; her voice still hushed “what were you thinking? How did you get in? Why did you…”

Estelle interrupted her, equally excited “Never mind how I got in! You hung up and I wanted to…”

Suddenly, a voice interrupted them both from behind “What the hell is going on here??! Helena?! There’re two of you?!!!”

(tbc)

So…who do we think that is?