“What do you want” Tina is not, at all, pleased to see her parents. She didn’t need this today of all days

“We’ve come to talk some sense into you” Tina closes her eyes and all she sees is the kiss in the restaurant and Bette’s face. It soothes her but also makes her feel depressed more than she already is

“For the last time I’m gay, I don’t like men” Tina opens her eyes and walks passed her parents towards her desk “I love Bette and nothing is going to change that, not even you” Tina knows that this is not what her parents want to hear but tough luck “So if you wouldn’t mind I have work to do” She opens the file on her desk, completely ignoring her parents. They’re not impressed by her attitude as they left. Tina looks up from the file after the door is slammed shut and signs heavily. Just then her mobile phone rings. She looks at the caller ID and sees the name she was expecting. Bette. Tina shakes her head and lets it go to voicemail. She couldn’t shift the image of Bette sitting in The Planet this morning. Her soulless gaze and isolation from the gang; she was hurting and she was hurting a lot. Her phone then confirms she has a voicemail. Tina closes her eyes and takes a deep breath before she plucks up the courage to listen to it.

“Hey T, I realise that… that you’re probably avoiding me right now but… I umm… shit… I just want you to come home T. I need you and I know you need me too. Nadia’s history; she realised I could never love her because… because I’m totally and utterly in love with you and I swear that will never change T. Please just come home that’s all I ask. I understand that you may never love me more than friend but I just need you to be around Tina” Tina could feel the tears building in her eyes. There was so much pain and emotion in Bette’s voice that it was killing her inside “I need to see and hear you every day just know that I’m alive because, right now, I feel dead inside” Tina couldn’t hold back the tears anymore and they just began to flow. They were both feeling exactly the same. She and Bette were experiencing the same emotions “Anyway just please come home, I miss you but above all I love you” Tina closes her eyes as the tears continue to fall “Bye” Tina slowly closes her mobile phone letting it slip from her fingers. Bette was practically begging on her hands and knees for her to come home. Nadia was gone; there was no twenty year old slut anymore. But Tina still needed time to digest all of her new feelings and knowledge. 

TBC…