“You make it sound as
if I sold you to the highest bidder.”

 
“Well, I am not an
object or a piece of meat,” Tina shifted her weight, starting to feel her
argument slipping.

 
“Tina, you are taking
it too serious, it was just supposed to have been a simple dinner, maybe more
social skills required on your part, and I know you have a way of handling
things I can almost guarantee that you made the best of the situation, stuck
to it, and got us a lifetime client.”

 
“Why, you certainly
have a lot of faith in me.”

 
“Don’t I hate to admit
it, especially to you,” Bette mumbled.

 
“What?”

 
“I do, of course, you
are a valuable asset to the company and that is why I knew you would get the
job done.”

 
“Anyway Porter, I hate
having these stupid arguments with you, because you always tend to
beat me with experience.”

 
“Was that a bash at my
intellectual abilities?”

 
“However you want to
take it.”

 
Tina turned to walk out of
the office, but then stopped and turned back around, Oh Bette you will not get
the satisfaction of laughing at me this time, no sir-ee.

 
“One last thing Bette,
well, all the arguing aside, I still have to thank you… I just want you
to know that it was the best date I had in a while.”

 
“What?” Bette unconsciously
shot up and sat at attention, “it was?…”

 
“Yes, in fact we are on
the road to becoming good friends.”

 
“Already?  Well…
I’m glad, Harrison is a nice guy…” Bette said not sounding so sure.

 
“Who said it was
Harrison?”

 
“What do you mean? The
business dinner, who else?” she was confused at this point.

 
“He couldn’t make it so
the promoter turned tennis player took over, oh and by the way, her name
is Dana.” and with that the blonde quickly left the office.

Bette sat there stunned for
what seemed like hours… ‘Tina had a great date with Dana?… a girl?… a
lesbian??… when did she pull a hollywood
trend on me?  I have to get to the bottom of this.’

 
Into her speaker phone she
yelled, “Alice!  I need you in my office, now.”

 
‘Holly shit… think Alice,
think, where did you screw up this time… did I do something stupid at the
party did I force myself on her I could have sworn it was a pillow!’

 
“uh boss, you wanted
to see me?…” Alice peeped her head through the doorway and said in a small
voice, “Is this about the deli caterer?, because I swear I told them 8 not 80″

 
“No Alice, I don’t care
about that, at least not right now, tell me about Tina’s date.”

“Her date last night? 
Her date!  Right!  Um.. it was actually a funny story and I
was…”

 
“Look, did you know
that it was a girl?  Is Tina even into girls?”

 
“She told me afterwards,
well more like I phoned her and forced her to tell me.  Dana Fairbanks is the new amateur tennis
player, she still does some work for Wilson here and there but is gravitating
towards becoming pro about Tina, she says she is not into girls but sometimes
I wonder yet I did give her one advice, forget about the guys and take a walk
on the wild side because it sure as hell makes life more interesting”

 
‘You mean more difficult,’
Bette thought to herself.

 
“She is actually going to lunch with Dana today.”
Alice said nonchalantly.