”Hey” Bette answered softly as she saw Tina furrow her brows. The brunette realized that she still had a cigarette between her fingers. She hurried to snuff it out into the ashtray. ”Sorry, just felt like it” Bette explained herself sheepishly.

Tina’s brows now went up as she stepped forward and settled down on Bette’s lap, placing her arm around her neck. She shrugged. ”Well, it’s your health”

”I’m trying, Tee”

”I know” The blonde assured quietly and bent for a kiss. Inching away, Tina smoothed Bette’s tousled hair. ”You couldn’t sleep?”

”Yeah”

”What’s the nightmare was about?”

Bette sighed to herself. She wanted to erase the memory of this dream for ever and ever. ”Can we not talk about this, Tee? I just want to forget it”

”Okay” Tina nodded and bit her lower lip pensively. ”Bette?”

”Hmm?”

”I want to ask you something”

The brunette tensed. Whenever Tina said those kinds of sentences, her heart cringed with horror. ”What?” She got out, swallowing.

”I’m not sure how you’ll react though… Um, do you…” Tina paused, composing herself. ”Do you…have someone else?”

Bette widened her eyes in daze. ”What?”

”Are you cheating on me?”

The brunette let out an incredulous laugh, partly happy for the path the question took and partly irked, offended even that Tina was doubting her devotion to her, her love for her. ”No, Tina, I am not cheating on you. Where is this coming from?”

Tina let out a sigh, either of relief or of despondency, Bette couldn’t make out which. ”It’s just… You disappear at work for inhumanly long time and I can only think up my own scenarios of where you are, who you are with. And it’s not like you call me often. So you can’t possibly blame me of doubting you, Bette. For a second imagine yourself in my shoes”

Bette smiled and tilted her head to the side, eyeing Tina with enjoyment.

”You would blow up every time I’m late for dinner or don’t call you when promised”

Bette caressed Tina’d cheek with her thumb. ”You know me so well”

”Yes I do. And it’s all not good. I don’t want a one-sided relationship, espesially with you. I want you to call me more often” Tina said assertively.

”I love when you are so commanding, it’s so sexy”

Tina swatted Bette in her arm. ”Stop. I’m talking serious to you”

Bette sighed. ”Fine, Tee. I promise to call you more often”

The blonde lifted her eyebrow. ”Like you promised me to quit smoking?”

Bette made a face. ”No, like I promised you to go to Miami someday. Actually I’ve already picked up the approximate date of our departure”

”Oh yeah? Care to share?”

”I was thinking about us flying to Miami straight after we celebrate our six month anniversary”

”Whoa! You really went ahead of yourself!” Tina laughed.

”So it would feel like a part of my present for you, more celebration and something else, which I can’t tell you about.” Bette stated, looking mysterious.

”Feeling sassy, huh?” Tina said playfully, locking her lips with Bette’s.

The brunette squeezed Tina’s buttocks, notifying her in that way that they were going to bed. ”Feeling horny” Bette corrected naughtily between kisses as she half-carried her girlfriend out of the balcony.