“I’ll always be there when you need me” Bette places a gentle kiss on Tina’s forehead “Come on let’s go home and relax by the pool” Tina smiles as they walk out of the office together. Little did Tina know that her parents are about to be fed a lie

“Eric my boy how are you?” Richard extends his hand and Eric takes it

“Worried sick about Tina” Sharon comes in next and brings Eric into an embrace “I don’t know where she is; if tried all her friends and Alphaville but she’s neither phoned nor been into work” This worried Tina’s parents because it wasn’t like Tina to not turn into work or call her friends “Alphaville said she’s take a couple of days off but had no idea where she is or whose she’s with” Sharon was worried for her daughter, she could be staying at some cheap, dirty motel or she could be lying in a ditch somewhere

“We’ll find her and when we do we’ll set her straight” Straight being the operative word. However they didn’t know their daughter was gay and she was quickly falling in love with her new housemate

Meanwhile at The Planet, Alice was filling Kit in on her sister’s new love interest. Kit was going to have a heart attack

“How’s ma baby sis been behavin?” Alice chuckles and shakes her head. She knew Tina would be good for Bette but first she had meet her properly to get a better judgement

“She’s falling in love Kit” Kit was stunned into silence. Bette falling in love?

“No way not Bette” Alice nods, Kit couldn’t believe it. Someone had finally captured her sister’s heart “Who is she?” Alice chuckles again

“A not so straight, blonde angel who’s married to a man” Kit, once again, was stunned into silence

“Wow, does this blonde ‘angel’ have a name?” Oh boy does she have a name and it matched her perfectly

“Tina Kennard” So this Tina Kennard had captured Bette’s heart. Kit had never thought Bette would fall in love. Bette had always been a one night woman; sex without any strings kind of woman but not with this Tina Kennard it seems

“How did they meet?” Alice smiles at the memory of Bette and Tina standing talking then Tina dashing off to somewhere. She had immediately seen the connection between them and how strong it appeared to be. She knew it was a destined love. A love that would never fade

“At the opening” Kit had been to the opening and had seen no blonde speaking to Bette just Helena “Bette gave her the private tour and I saw them talking about something” Kit listens intently to Alice’s story, she was very curious about her sister’s new love “I saw the connection immediately Kit I swear there were sparks flying and cupids dancing it was amazing to see” Kit still couldn’t believe that her sister was falling in love and with the one person she had been waiting for all her life “Tina then came back later that night, she’d just left her husband and she went to Bette for help”  Bette always was the charitable type “They’re living together for the moment” Kit chokes on her iced tea. Bette living with someone?

“Bette offered her a place to stay?” Alice nods. OK Kit really did need to meet this Tina now because she really did have Bette wrapped around her little finger

“Yep and I’ve never seen Bette happier” Kit feels a sense of relief fall on her. At least Bette was happy, maybe Tina Kennard was good for her and exactly who she needed. One thing Kit really did want to do was meet Tina but she wasn’t about to go around to Bette’s home and demand to see Tina. She was going to wait until they came into The Planet so she could see what Tina was like on friendly ground.

TBC…