"Bette, Bette, Bette. Baby slow down you’re gonna give yourself a heart attack. Now Tina called me to see if I knew whether you were doing alright. I told her I would call her later on , after I talked to you. She probably thought you were asleep and she didn’t want to wake you."

"So she’s waiting for you to call her?"

"Yeah, uhh Bette, sweetie hold on someone’s calling my work line." Melvin put the phone down and Bette’s mind was on overdrive. She kept wondering why Tina didn’t call and ask about her, herself, was she that stressed about Vanessa, did Vanessa hurt her again, was she in pain and not wanting Bette to know about it. "Bette sweetie, I gotta go talk a client out of the bar. Tell you what instead of me calling Tina back why don’t you do it? She’s up waiting for my call I’m sure she’ll be more than happy to hear for herself that you’re alright and constantly thinking about her."

"Yeah, I think I will. Thanks Daddy. I love you."

"I love you too, sweetie. Good night." Melvin hung up the phone with a sigh of relief.

Bette was just trying to come up with an excuse as to why she was calling Tina this late, while she was dialing, "Okay just go slow and…"

"Hello." Tina picked up after the first ring which interrupted Bette’s calming technique.

"T-Tina, hi sweetie."

"Bette, baby why are you awake, I thought you’d be asleep by now."

"Well you know I was up and I was thinking about you, so I decided to call."

"Melvin told you to call me didn’t he." Tina could tell Bette was lying to her in order to not seem worried, it was very sweet of her to do so.

"Uhh huh." Bette almost immediately breathed the answer, as she was relieved that she didn’t have to elaborate on the lie. She could hear Tina laughing which made her laugh to.

"Thank you sweetie." Tina said laughingly.

"For what?" Bette almost said in a pouting manner but that was lost due to her laughter.

"For lying to me trying ease my worry. I love you for that."