Chapter 16

Tina sat in front of her laptop in the study. She sat there for over an hour just staring at the blinking cursor on the blank word document. Her mind kept drifting back to the last night she and Bette were together in the house in Los Angeles. 

“How will I know when you’re ready?” Tina asked.

“Let’s just say, ‘Don’t call me, I’ll call you.’” Bette replied, she had already raised her wall, but inside her heart was breaking because the one person whom she thought she could trust with her heart had broken it. Right now she no idea if she was able to forgive Tina for the hurt she had caused. “Please leave,” she cried softly.

Tina had driven around West Hollywood. She didn’t know where to go, didn’t know if she should go to a hotel. Exhausted she drove to Alice’s apartment and let herself in with a spare key Alice had given her.

The ringing of the house phone broke Tina from her thoughts. She let the answering machine answer the phone. She smiled when she heard her cousin Agnés leaving a message that she was call to check up on her and that she was going to call her cell phone. Tina chuckled when she heard cell phone ring. “Hi, Agnés.” She answered. Out of all of her cousins, she was closest to Agnés.

“Screening the house phone are we?” Agnés asked her cousin.

“Just trying to get started on this grant for the center,” the blonde answered.

“You give too much of herself to that center. I understand that the kids need you, but I thought that this vacation was for relaxation, not work related.”

“Once I write the grant, I’ll do some relaxing.”

“Mind some company for the weekend?” Agnés asked.

“Uh, I actually brought someone with me.” Tina admitted to her cousin.

“Someone I know?”

“Yes, it’s someone you know,” Tina confessed.

“Well or do I have to twist your arm?”

“It’s Bette. Bette is here with me.”

“What?! I mean…shit! How? When? And why am I just finding this out now.”