As the couple was approaching Tina noticed two young women standing at the entrance smoking cigarettes. Tina narrowed her eyes when both women greeted Bette like she was their sex idol but when Bette wasn’t watching they simultaneously shot Tina fairly nasty looks as if the blonde got onto their territory. All the women had to do yet is to bark.

”Marina!” Bette called to a tall slender woman, who seemed to be talking to her staff.

The woman with exceptional Italian beauty immediately turned her attention on Bette, dazzling both her and Tina with a big generous smile. ”Bette” Marina pronounced, her voice thick with accent. ”I thought you forgot the way to my place”

”Oh c’mon, I was here last week, wasn’t I? Marina, meet my girlfriend, Tina Kennard. Tina, this is Marina Ferrer, the owner”

Marina’s eyebrow curved as she took Tina’s hand and shook it. ”Very nice to meet you, Tina and welcome to The Planet” She vaguely nodded her head to Bette, obviously expressing appreciation.

”Nice to meet you too” Tina said humbly, taking notice for the first time of how good-looking all Bette’s friends seemed to be.

While Bette was speaking to Marina Tina took a chance to look around. In the process she detected several pairs of eyes viewing her with pretty much the same death stare as those two women at the entrance.

Tina frowned. She couldn’t put together what was happening here. Maybe her make up was messed up, she asked herself. No, it couldn’t be that, she barely put the make up on at Bette’s condo. Were all these women Bette’s former lovers? Was that why they burned Tina with their looks? The blonde shifted her legs uncomfortably. She didn’t like this. Why Bette brought her here? Tina looked at her girlfriend. The brunette was clearly feeling very calm, she was holding Tina’s hand with confident grip.

Tina shook her head to clear it out of more hasty conclusions.

”Go ahead you two, I’ll send someone to your table right this minute. Helena is there too by the way”

Bette nodded and started to go.

”Bette, why is everybody looking at me like that?” Tina whispered loudly to Bette as she followed closely behind her.