Tina grabbed her purse and keys and went into the building. She used her key to open the door and was greeted by Angie as soon as she stepped into the doorway. She was surprised to see her daughter standing in the foyer. “Hi Mommy.”

“Hi sweetie. I didn’t know you were here. Where’s Momma?”

“She’s upstairs. We’re watching a movie. She told me you were coming.”

“She did?”

“Yeah.”

“How did she know that? I didn’t even know I was coming here. I thought you guys were at the other house.”

“I don’t know how she knew but she just told me to come downstairs to see you. We missed you today.”

“I missed you too baby.” Tina gives Angie a hug and kiss.

“Let’s go see Momma.” Tina and Angie go up the two flights to the top floor where they had the media room set up. Bette was sitting in one of the recliners just relaxing with a bowl of popcorn resting on her tummy. She glanced up at Tina and Angie and smiled as they walked in.

“There are my girls. Hi Tee. We’ve been waiting for you.”

Tina pulled out her cell phone and checked for messages. She thought maybe Bette had left one to meet here and she missed it but when she checked she had no messages.

“Babe how is it that you were expecting me when I didn’t know I was supposed to be here? I only came up because Shane saw lights in the building when we passed by then I saw your car parked downstairs. Did I miss something in our conversation earlier?”

“No Tee you didn’t miss anything. You were led here by a sequence of events that were preplanned. Your day today was all part of Act XIV. Let’s go downstairs and get a glass of wine. I’ll explain. Angie go ahead and start the movie. We’ll be up in just a few minutes OK?”

“OK Momma.”

Once they are downstairs Bette gets two wine glasses and pours them a drink. “Babe. I don’t have time to have a glass of wine. Shane is downstairs waiting for me to drive her home. We should at least invite her in. I asked her to wait for me outside because I didn’t know what you were doing here. I didn’t want to walk into an embarrassing moment.”