Tina nodded smiling back. Her heart skipped a beat when she looked at Bette who was smiling up at her. Bette climbed through the ropes taking out Dana’s mouthpiece and giving her some water. Once she nodded that she was good, Bette shoved the mouthpiece back in. She walked over to Tina that was resting against the ropes. She slowly brought her hands up to Tina’s mouth and Tina opened up so Bette could take the mouthpiece out. Tina’s heart felt as if it was about to beat out of her chest being this close to Bette. Bette placed the water nozzle of the bottle in Tina’s mouth and squeezes the bottle for water to pour out. Once Tina had enough, Bette placed the mouthpiece back in delicately. As she was pulling her fingers out, Tina pressed her lips to Bette’s exiting fingers. Tina stood still not sure if she had just done that or not. She bit her lip feeling embarrassed. Bette had begun to blush feeling aroused by the simple gesture Tina had just done. She quickly exited the ring and went back to her spot.

The girls sparred all afternoon until they both were too exhausted to even throw a punch or block one. Tina had 3 knockdowns while Dana had 2.

Tina went up to Dana touching gloves with her. “Hey thanks for helping with the practice.”

Dana smiled. “No problem. We should do it again.”

Tina replied. “Sounds good. See you later.”

Dana nodded and walked out of the ring and down next to Bette. Bette removed Dana’s gloves and the tape from her hands.

Dana looked at Bette. “Man she is good for a newbie.”

As Bette finished up she looked over at Tina and didn’t even notice that Dana had already walked away. “Yeah she is.” She said to nobody.

Tina was standing in the middle of the ring daydreaming. Bette bit her lip as if she can bite back what she was feeling. Bette pulled apart the ropes climbing into the ring. “Hey, you okay?”

Tina snapped out of her thoughts looking over at Bette, who was now standing next to her. “Yeah, I really can’t wait for my first fight.”

Bette smiled. “That’s a good mindset to stay in even if you lose, you need to just get back up again and brush it off.”

Tina looked in front of her. “I do want to talk about last night…I”

Before she was able to tell her how she felt Bette stopped her. “Please leave it be. We need to focus on training and making you the boxer you want to be. That is all.” Bette walked away and climbed down from the ring heading to the locker room.

Tina stood there watching Bette retreat wondering what the hell just happened.