“What you doing here Little Missy?”

“Hawking girl scout cookies. How many boxes do you want?” Carmen smiled at her before asking, “May I?”

“Yea, I’m sorry.” Bette said moving to the side allowing Carmen to enter into her home.

“ I know it’s late and I probably should’ve called but I knew you’d be up late working.”

“So you thought disturbing me would help with…” Bette goaded Carmen hoping for a reason for this intrusion.

“Nothing I just miss you that’s all.”

“Aww, that’s sweet. It’s bullshit, but it’s sweet.” Bette said taking Carmen’s wrist and practically throwing her into a small embrace. She pulled back and asked, “Now what’s really bothering you?”

Carmen felt a little bit relieved that Bette could see that she wasn’t telling the truth. She ran a nervous hand through her raven colored locks and blew a nervous breath. “I came here to talk about you and Tina.” Carmen had already taken a seat and was now watching as Bette was taking in the information so far with a bite to the side of her lip.

“What about her?”

“You seem really emotionally invested in this one patient. Why is that?”

“Uhm, she’s a patient that has a lot of questions and needs someone to answer them.” Bette shrugged her shoulders as she spoke hoping that the half answer would appease Carmen’s curiosity.

“True enough she a patient and she’s going to be a first time Mom, but that doesn’t explain why you’ve developed this deep rapport with her.”

“Explain? I have to explain why I hang out with the women I see everyday, to you?” Bette was now at the tip of anger she never thought that she’d have to give a reason as to why she chose to hang out with Tina.

“No, that didn’t come out how I wanted it to.”

“Then what are you asking me Carm?” Bette very calmly moved to the edge of her seat and clasped her hands together hoping that Carmen would further explain this seemingly interrogation.

“Why her?! That’s the question. You’ve had, I don’t know how many patients and you’ve never so much as asked them a personal question, but Tina comes along and you take her to dinner? There is something going on between you two.”