“But now is different. It’s not a random woman that doesn’t know me. It’s someone that knows me and Erick and she seems to believe that we could be together and her friend told me she has the most perfect gaydar of WeHo. I won’t ever understand this ‘gaydar’ thing. Is it possible that I give the wrong signal?”

            “Aren’t you giving too much importance to this? You are straight, you are happy with Erick, forget it.”

            “I tried but”

            “but”

            “Okay, I wasn’t completely honest with you the other day. I did some pronoun game with you. Remember when I said I kissed someone and I was confused with my feelings, and I fake an ***** with Erick because I was thinking in someone else?”

            Abby just nodded her head. Her dinner was now completely forgotten.

            “Well it’s a woman. And I still think a lot about her, I couldn’t have ***** with Erick the last time and I kissed her again today.”

            Tina stopped her rambling waiting for an answer or comment of her friend. When it didn’t come after several minutes, she became impatient.

            “I would thank some advice or comment.”

            “You left me speechless”

            “Because she’s a woman?”

            “No, because she got you really bad and you are fighting against it. Do you want an advice? I will give you one that my best friend Tina gave me not only once or twice but several times and always worked. ‘Follow your heart’. And another advice, make your plate because your dinner is getting cold.” 

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            Tina and Bette didn’t talk anymore after that day. Alice talked once with Tina on the phone and she knew Tina was still going to Paris. She couldn’t believe how idiot or stubborn Bette was being. They needed another little intervention. So she went to Bette’s gallery the morning of Tina’s departure to Paris. She found her working as if she wasn’t losing her last chance with the woman she was meant to be with.

            “Hey Bette, Kelly. What are you doing here? Kelly, please reschedule all the appointments of Ms. Porter of today.”

            “Al, I’m the boss here.”

            “Yes, and the ***** idiot also. Aren’t you gonna go after your woman to tell her how you feel about her before it’s too late?”

            “She’s not my woman and go after her it’s a bit desperate. I never did it before.”

            “You never failed with a woman before. You never wanted a woman like you want her before. Desperate times ask for desperate measures. Let’s go, I will drive you to the airport, we don’t have much time.”

            At first Bette didn’t know why she was following Alice. But on the way to the airport she was wondering what Tina meant to her. She never felt this way with anyone before so fast and so intense like now. When she arrived the airport she was convinced Alice was right. But it was late. The flight had already departed. She paced a little thinking and waiting Alice, who was parking the car, come after her. When Alice arrived and realized that they had lost Tina, she felt sorry for her friend. But Bette didn’t look defeated, quite the contrary.

            “Al, I need you to go my house and pack some clothes to me and take my passport while I find a flight to Paris or other European city.”

            “Do you lose your mind, Porter?”

            “No, Al. Desperate times ask for desperate measures.”

            “Oh my God, I’m creating a monster here.”

            NEXT: Tina, Bette and Erick in Paris.