“You cannot call me that..yes I know you were bisexual and yes I thought we were in love and you wanted me and only me for that time.  If you didn’t want it you should of broken it off.  I would have been hurt but at least it would have been honest..fuck Betsy please fucking……Tina?”  Bette looked up with tear stained face and saw Tina.

Tina came up to Bette and held her. 

“Baby please it’s ok..what happened?”  Tina glared at Betsy.  Tina knew just what James had told her when he called telling Tina that Bette was in hysterics with her ex in her office.

“Betsy is it?  I think you should leave ok?  Just don’t make it worse right now.”  Tina was being fair and didn’t want to make more of scene that it is.  She held Bette and stroked her hair, whispered I love you’s and rocked her.

Betsy left with head down.  All she wanted to do was apologize and tell her what fool she was for hurting Bette.  She knew she should have been honest with her and that she was interested in dating men again.  It was wrong to have her get caught and the look on Bette’s face.  It still hurts her to this day to how foolish she was.  Deep down she knew Bette had moved on and wanted to wish her well.  She left the letter that she was going to leave and instead ran into her.  She cried her tears of pain and regret of foolish life and left.

“Baby, please…talk to me.”  Tina crouched down and looked up at Bette.  Bette held Tina and they rocked together and Bette cried harder.  She told Tina of her heartache about her first feeling of love and the betrayal of loss and pain and of all the ways to hurt someone and to catch them.   Tina cried for Bette and her pain, just knowing what heartache felt like to lose something anything was something she could understand..she didn’t ever want to lose Bette.  She could see the pain in love’s eyes and the need Bette needed from her when she walked in.

“Tina, I am sorry you had seen that..she was supposed to just leave me be.  Seeing what she had done..god I moved to France for her.  She is a wonderful artist.  I was so young and stupid.  We were just in this path of our lives and well..it happened fast.  The pain that I had dealt with is over and I am with you baby, just there is a wound of past that was opened.  I….”  Bette began to cry again and her heart was still mending and she was learning to move on and love again.  She loved Tina with her heart and mind, more than she had ever expected to.