“Good morning.”

            “Hey, Tina. Good morning. Can we sit in the Garden of Tulleries? It’s beautiful there early in the morning.”

            They walked in silent for a few minutes and seated side by side next to the fountain. The sun was just rising giving to the water a golden color. They were avoiding facing each other as if it would make their conversation easier.

            “Tina, I won’t take much of your time. I just want”

            “Just answer me a thing first. Am I some kind of challenge for you? Because I can say you are used to get everything you want. I saw how confident you were that day in the gallery and Alice told me how you both met, so I know you are some kind of object of the desire of the ***** communityI don’t understand your insistence with a straight woman if not to the pleasure of the conquest.”

            Bette turned to Tina on her left, she hoped she could see the honesty and love in her eyes.

            “Yes, you are a challenge. I can have any ***** I want but I want you. I’m a confident person that always gets what I want, but you make me rethink my wishes and act like a fool, letting Alice to take the lead.   I can seduce any woman but you swept me of my safe ground and I needed Alice to bring some sense back to me. You are not just a conquest for me. You mean a lot to me.  I can’t let you go without fighting for you. I just didn’t say anything before because I didn’t want to mess up with your life.”

            Tina got up and walked to the edge of the lake. She stayed there for a moment, staring the water, trying to figure what to say next, how to explain to Bette what she was feeling.

            “You didn’t want to mess up with my life? Too late. I have been a mess for three weeks now trying to understand my feelings. Trying to erase you of my mind so I can go back to my life.”