“I realized that she had something in her hair.  It was white and gluey.”  I smiled at Shane before saying, “It was bird shit on her hair.”  She gives me a look, saying you are gonna pay for this later.  I just couldn’t stop laughing. 

“Then Carmen, being the kind hearted girl as she is, she offered me to go back to her apartment to clean myself up. She SAVED my life that day. And that’s how we met.”  She shrugs her shoulders, looks at me and says, “If having bird shits on my head is what it takes to meet her, then I don’t mind having bird shitting on me everyday.”  She smiles sweetly at me. 

“So did you call her the next day?”  Bette asks.

“No, it took me a month to have enough courage to ask her out.  You don’t see many gorgeous girls like her everyday.”  She gives me a rare shy smile which makes my heart skips a beat.

She got a few sympathy ‘aw’ from the audience.

 “Your sweet talk is not working on me.”  I lie.

“It is working on me.  Have you got any sisters?”  Dana says excitedly.

“Sorry, only have two brothers, one married, the other maybe little bit too young.”

“Is he anything like you, I could turn straight for him.”  Dana says dreamily with her hand supporting her head.

“I will ask.”  Shane laughs.  

The food arrives.  Glad that we can now ends this conversation.

“Tina, I heard that you were Carmen’s resident when she was an intern.”  Shane says.

“Yeah, it seems such a long time ago.  I didn’t like her at first, I thought she was too desperate to impress.  But after while, I discovered that she is just an incredibly hard working girl.  Not many people get put themselves through med school through scholarship.  You are looking at one of the few.”  Tina recalls.

“Please Tina, you are embarrassing me now.”  I blush uncontrollably. 

 I want to take the subject off me.  So I say to Shane, “Bette, I haven’t seen you for a long time.  Tina said you had been very busy at work lately.”