What hurt Bette most was that this was the first time she showed another person how she truely felt, she was rejected when Tina left, TINA left. The one person she thought she could count on.

Tina searched the crowded club for her friends, they were sitting outside in the only part of the bar that Kit allowed people to smoke in. It was quieter out there anyway; Alice, Shane and Dana sat around a small table giggling at something Alice had just said. She spotted Tina and waved her over, Alice whistled as she got closer, “You look smoking T-dawg where have you been?”

“At Bette’s place” Tina wasn’t in the mood to shock Alice with a witty response. “Oh yeah the Miss’s” Alice rolled her eyes drinking her beer. “Fuck off Al” Tina stole Shane’s beer to sip on; she waved over to Kit to bring them more. “Geez TK what’s up your ass..Bette Porter?” Alice mocked in a girly voice. This was the usual comments both Bette and Tina received but normally Tina could handle it and shrugged it off because it never meant anything.

“Seriously Al I’m not in the mood” Tina regretted biting her friends head off who had no idea why she was so pissed off in the first place. Shane sensed something was wrong “Tina did something happen?” She continued to look down at her beer, “did you and Bette get into an argument?” Tina’s lip quivered slightly wanting to open up to her friends.

“Uh…I don’t even know how to tell you guys this, I’m still trying to get the story straight myself” her friends looked on confused but intrigued. She began to tell them how she got to the point of massaging Bette’s back on her bed – which wasn’t unusual to them but an important part of the story.

“Then she started telling me how she felt about me! It all came from nowhere and we sort of…slept together” she mumbled the end part hoping that they didn’t hear but judging by their faces they heard all right. Dana spat her beer choking on her drink “sorry” she looked at Alice who wiped the liquid off her face.

“You what?!?! How do you sort of sleep with someone??”
“She wanted to show me how much she cared about me, well she showed me” they all caught on, all thrilled that they were finally getting it on. “This is great! It’s finally happening!!” Dana and Alice agreed. “So wait why are you so upset?” Shane asked confused.

“Because this changes everything, our entire friendship! We can’t go back to snuggling when the other one is upset or trying on clothes in front of each other cause it’ll be weird now”
“Not like it wasn’t before” Alice chucked in. “Do you want it to go back to the way it was though? Do you have feelings for Bette?” There was silence as all three stared at her waiting for the answer. “I dunno”

“Tina you both act like a couple” Dana looked at the other two who nodded. “Maybe you were both waiting for the other to say or do something…Bette was just done waiting” On some level Tina knew they were right. “We could all see it happening way before the two of you did” Shane smirked at the conversations they shared behind their backs.

“Wait you guys really knew? I mean you give us a lot of shit but did you actually know?”
“You didn’t!” Alice’s mouth fell open, “How could you be so blind, it was SO obvious! –“
“Guys” Shane sat up in her chair.
“I mean you and Bette aren’t just friends Tina and after last night I don’t think you can go back to having exactly what you had” Shane and Dana cringed. “Guys!!”

“You told them?” Alice and Tina turned to the direction their friends were looking. “Whilst I was sitting at home feeling utterly humiliated, wondering why my best friend won’t call me back you are here sharing my humiliation with my friends?” Bette felt the tears form along her bottom eyelid. She stormed off feeling humiliated for the second time today by the woman she trusted most.