“Shut up.”

    “Fine. Business with Helena next week. What about tonight? You said something about tonight?”

    “You didn’t schedule another date with Tina tonight?
That’s strange…” Bette trailed off, stirring her coffee with a
thoughtful look on her face. At that moment, Shane sauntered up to the
table, pulled a chair out and straddled it. “Hi guys! Bette, heard you
had a wild night.” She winked and smiled knowingly.

    “Nuh-uh! I mean, no! A wild night? Who told you that?”

    “Tina.”

    Both Bette’s and Alice’s heads whipped at warp speed
to face Shane.  “Tina?!” They yelped simultaneously.

    “Wait, wait. You know Tina Kennard… personally
know Tina Kennard and she’s dishing out post-date information to you?
And you let me PAY for her?!” Alice was flushed and indignant.

    “Tina told you we had a wild night? How wild? And
what was about last night that could be construed as wild? Did she
actually say wild? When did you talk to her?!” Bette was flushed and
inexplicably worried.

    Shane held up her hands in a gesture of surrender,
“I’ll answer all your questions, just please don’t hurt Betty Mae.”

    She looked at the two faces in front of her and waited for a reaction to her joke. Tough crowd.

    “Well, Alice, I know Tina because I used to go out
with her roomie, Jenny. Last night, Jenny called me for a… um, well
you know… she wanted to get reacquainted intimately… you get the
picture right?”

    “You were on a booty call.” Alice stated flatly.

    “Hey! I don’t do booty calls. I helped out a damsel
in undress.” Shane chuckled. Seeing that neither Bette nor Alice looked
particularly amused, she sighed. “Fine. Here’s the deal. So me and
Jenny were out on the couch, watching some post-***** MTV, when Tina
storms in, looking really… keyed up. She looked really hot too! In a
really ***** black dress, some lacy lingerie-type number. Well, Bette,
you saw it. It was hot right?”

    “Oh yeah… I mean, she is certainly an attractive
girl.” Bette giggled nervously and cleared her throat. “Go on, Shane.”

    “Yah, she was looking really worked up. Her hair was
all mussed up, her eyes were really dark, glittering you know? And her
chest was flushed, you know like they get, pre-*****? She took one
look at me and Jenny and sort of groaned… really low and *****… and
kinda tortured? She went into her room and shut the door. I didn’t
really hear anything since the TV was on kinda loud but I’m pretty sure
I heard her scream once or twice. She came out about half an hour
later, in a long T-shirt and nothing else. That almost made me dump
Jenny on the floor right then and there!”