Kit had made her dinner. She had been so wonderful through everything. She knew how much Kit loved Tina and she was sure her heart was broken for her as well, but she never once passed judgment. She only held Bette as she cried. Telling her ‘Sometimes we fall…the important thing is that you get up and go after what you know is right.’ Kit had spent at least three nights at Bette’s house in the past week.

Bette put down the note. The sun was setting and through the french doors leading out to their pool, Bette saw a shadow. She peeked her head out and saw Tina. She was wearing two soft-layered tank tops and a pair of khaki capris. She was sitting on the edge of their pool with both of her feet in the water on the first step of the concrete stairs that lead into the pool. Her eyes concentrated on the way the sunlight bounced off the ripples of the water.

“Tee… what are you doing?”

“Oh… Hi.” Tina turned and looked up at Bette. She hadn’t heard her come outside. “I am just sitting here, thinking.”

Bette removed both of her own shoes and walked barefoot over to where Tina was sitting. She probably shouldn’t sit so close to the chlorine in her burgundy skirt suit, but she didn’t care. She would sacrifice the suit to sit next to Tina right now.

She stepped onto the first step, feeling the cold water envelope her feet and sat down. Her thigh touching Tina’s.

“I have been checking my cell phone every five minutes to see if you called yet.” Bette admitted. “I was starting to think you had forgotten.”

“You’re not someone who is easy to forget…” Tina said. “I was going to call. I hadn’t planned to come over.”

“Did you just need to get some stuff?” Bette began to think that Tina may not be there to talk to her at all. Maybe she was there to start packing.

“No… no I don’t need anything. I came here to talk to you. I was going to call. I was… just at Alice’s apartment working on my resume and cleaning. I was feeling a little better and kind of hungry and remembered that I didn’t eat my fortune cookie from Saturday. There were four of them… still in a bag on the kitchen counter.” Tina paused, reaching into the front pocket of her capris. “This is the one I grabbed.”