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They’d all met at a restaurant close to Tina so she didn’t have to walk as far. Alice offered to pick her up and had even shown up at her house to take her to the restaurant but Tina  adamantly denied the offer so she and Alice ended up walking to the restaurant together.  Tina was walking ahead of Alice who was complaining that the distance was far to long for her to be walking, every complaint only made Tina smile as she continued on.

Tina reached the table first and like on cue Bette stood to greet the new guests at the table. She hugged Tina and pulled out her chair for her to sit, she shook Alice’s hand and went to pull out her chair but Alice had already taken her seat.

“So why have you two called us here on this beautiful day?” Tina asked as she handed her menu back to the waiter after he’d taken their orders.

“No reason, it just seems like the two of you like hanging together we just figured that we’d all hang out together.”

“Really?” Bette spoke as she looked at Alice who nodded her head and then towards Carmen who seemed to be busy watching the water in her glass.

“And where are your wives?”

“They work too Tina gosh, Tasha can’t be everywhere.” She said looking up at the ceiling as she spoke.

“There!” Tina said abruptly as she pointed at Alice. Everyone at the table looked at her suspiciously. Everyone except for Alice she knew she’d been caught. “Al you’re lying your ass off!”

The attention was now on Alice, who threw up her hands and feigned ignorance as she started to babble to dismiss Tina’s claims. “Don’t even do it.” Tina said now capturing her attention fully.

“Alright, alright.” Alice said. “I miss you, stupid! You’ve been spending all your time with the doctor and you’ve been completely ignoring me,” Carmen cleared her throat loudly. “Sorry, us. You guys do have other friends ya know?” to which the Carmen nodded her head in agreement.

Tina and Bette both scrunched their brow confused as to how this had turned on them. “Uhh, I… I hadn’t really noticed before Alice, I’m sorry?” she asked more than stated hoping that Alice wouldn’t dismantle her apology and see the confusion behind it.