”Care to share then?”

”Gladly. Be sure I’ll share that with Tina too as soon as I finish talking to you. Okay, so that girl who got into a fight with Bette Porter is Jodi Lerner and I personally know her also through my friend. Small world, huh?”

Alice rolled her eyes. ”Get to business already”

”In short, Jodi had an abusive relationship with Bette in past. They were raising hell all the time, every so often even physically. Jodi would go out with her friends, at that Bette would get mad and pretty violent.”

”Did Jodi tell you this?”

”Yes. But don’t you think she was lying. I personally saw her bruises.”

Alice scratched her chin, looking lost in thought.

Susan continued. ”One time Bette threw her out of the car in the middle of the night right on the 405 Freeway and sped off. Jodi said that Bette had a really dark childhood, either her mother died early or her father I’m not sure. And her sister is a junkie, she must’ve had overdosed at some drug den already–”

”Kit left rehab and is recovering now actually” Alice scolded, crossing her arms across her chest.

Susan waved her off. ”Whatever… So, I hope you get what a shady person that Bette Porter is. Tina needs to be brainwashed asap. Because Jodi couldn’t live like that for long, she even had to leave to New York, away from Bette’s abusive nature.”

”How long they were together?”

”Like a year maybe, I’m not sure”

”And you wanna say all that time Jodi was okay with Bette’s abusive nature?”

Susan shrugged. ”Love is blind”

Present time.

Tina leaned forward, resting her elbows on her knees. With her hands covering her face the blonde started to weep softly.

”Aww, come here…” Alice called below her breath and hugged her heartbroken friend to her chest, consoling, while also trying to fight her own tears.

”More lies, Alice…” Tina choked out as she sniveled profusely.

”You think Susan was lying?”

”More lies from Bette…”

Alice bent slightly and took the tissues box from the nightstand, giving it to Tina. She waited for the blonde to calm down and elaborate.

Tina’s eyes were burning from crying so much in so few days, it was unbearing. She tried to wipe the tears, though it was no earthly use since they kept falling and falling down her cheeks like a never-ceasing rain.