Before Tina came into the picture, Bette was truly a lost soul. Love and virtue were never parts of her life since she began working for her former college mate, Dominic Shaw, and his uncle. Only sex and big amounts of money filled her gray days, dragging her further and further to the bottom.

The brunette became fully aware now that even her friendship with Helena had started through sex. Bette began to recall that nightout she had had with Shane four years ago at The Planet. She was sitting at the bar counter alone, drowning her sorrows of her failed life in vodka as Shane got lost somewhere. That’s when Helena took a seat next to her and started to chat her up, inserting philosophical quotes here and there, while leading her thick-accented and rather pompous monologue as Bette thought then. When Bette reached the right condition, she became argumentative on Helena’s views and they ended up in a heated debate. They were distracted though, when a pretty girl asked them for a cigarette. Needless to say, all the three of them woke up next day in the same bed. Thereafter they had been crossing each other’s paths time and again, gradually developing a friendship and, then, a partnership.

Only her friends, Shane, Helena and Marcus made her feel somehow alive. But with time going by it had become almost imperceptible, and just when Bette was on the verge of falling, Tina appeared and saved her. She danced into her world and didn’t let her fall.

It suddenly felt like a doomsday for Bette… Because Tina was no longer here, no longer holding her in her protective arms, giving her a hope at life.

Bette closed her eyes, when a soft breeze caressed her face, letting her know that it understood her. A single teardrop found its way down her cheek, the teardrop that reflected all the worlds that collapsed in Bette.

The brunette opened her eyes and let herself be bewitched by the ocean in the dark. Its majestic and ever so intimidating waves seemed like they were challenging Bette, tempting her to come to them…

Out of the blue a bottle of Jack Daniels in someone’s hand appeared before the brunette.

”You look like you need some”