Dean smirked. “So your car won’t be fixed in a couple of weeks?”

Tina’s eyes twinkled. “It won’t.”

“But I need it, I don’t want to be in a car with two girls ogling each other all the time,” he pouted.

“Well, I have thought of a plan. I put my gar in the garage, wait until Bette picks me up and we leave. Then I text you when you can leave and where we are parked, you get the car out of the garage and park at the other end of the parking lot. She doesn’t know about you yet, so tomorrow there will be no problem. If she does know about you and ask how you go to school, I say you always drive with a guy you know from summer camp when we were kids – I never got along with him all that much, but you guys did. If she asks who he is, I’ll make up a name and let you know. He’d obviously attend another school and just drop you off.”

Dean raised his eyebrows. “Wow, when did you make all this up between drooling all over this girl?”

Tina sighed. “When you see her, you won’t blame me. You’ll wish to die and reincarnate as a lesbian just to have her.”

“So you know for sure she’s a lesbian?”

“Yeah, well, all her friends are gay and she didn’t say she wasn’t and she’s been checking out my ass and cleavage all the time.”

“Omigod, is she a perv?” he asked in a high-pitched voice, faking being shocked. 

“No, not at all. She didn’t stare. She… caught glimpses. Her name’s Bette Porter, by the way.”

Dean whistled.

“What?” Tina asked startled. “Do you know her? How can you know her? You’ve been sick all day! Did you go out? But where the hell did you go?”

“Calm down, Whina. She just has a hot name, that’s all. Bette… never heard that before.”

“Well, actually it’s Elizabeth but everyone calls her Bette. She hated ‘Lizzy’ because every Elizabeth gets called ‘Lizzy’ and ‘Beth’ was her horrible teacher in her first year of primary school. And don’t call me Whina.”

The nickname ‘Whina’ dated back to when they were kids and Tina was in her phase of whining about everything, from her brother stealing another chocolate and keeping the box away from her to falling down and pretending she was in way more pain than she actually was.