Bette refused to turn around even as Tina ate up the distance between them and swallowed the hard lump that had formed in her throat. The blonde held firmly onto Bette’s bicep, angling her head in a desperate attempt to meet her girlfriend’s glassy eyes. Her own eyes filled with tears.

"I didn’t mean what I said. Don’t go. Please don’t go"

The broken words caused Bette’s heart to clench tightly and she at last turned to meet the equally broken expression of her sad girlfriend.

Tina let her hands slip from Bette’s arm only to link their fingers together, desperately holding onto the woman she loved more than anything else in the world.

"Stay . . Stay with me"

Not really sure how to feel about it
Somethin’ in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can’t live without you
It takes me all the way
I want you to stay

Bette remained motionless, staring deep into Tina’s eyes as she felt her girlfriend’s fingers lightly graze up her arms.

Bette wanted to remain angry, she wanted nothing more than to push Tina away and walk out of the house but she couldn’t. It happened every time.

During every fight, every seemingly impossible situation, Bette had tried to tell herself to let it all go. That things between them would never work.

But she couldn’t.

One look into Tina’s eyes, one soft touch and everything changed. The will to fight, to run away and let go. It all vanished.

She felt powerless and on some level deep down knew that whenever it came to Tina, she would always be so. There was just something about her, something about Tina that affected Bette like no other. There was something about Tina that made it impossible for Bette to find what they shared anywhere else. Tina was special, Tina was everything.

There was a void in Bette’s heart that only Tina had been able to fill and no matter how much they fought or whatever differences they had, Bette knew that there wasn’t anyone else she wanted to go through those things with.

Being in love is about wanting to be there with someone through the good times as well as the bad. So even though they would have a few rough patches over the years they share together, Bette was willing to do it.