“Where is she, is she alright?”

Sonny looked pass Bette at Candace. Candace shook her head. So Sonny knew that she didn’t tell Bette why Kit wasn’t here. Which was understood because Candace didn’t know anything but that there was something urgent Kit had to attend.

Sonny looked at Bette and answered her question:

“She’s with your father. He’s dying.”

“What?”

Bette held on to the chair preventing herself from falling. This was a little too much for her to handle. First Candace tells her that she spoke to her sister and the guy who sat at her table was her brother-in-law. And now he’s telling her that her sister is with their father. And their father is dying. She couldn’t grasp it no more.

Tina saw the concerned look in the eye of her girlfriend. She was about to say something when Candace stepped in.

“Why don’t you guys go to my dressing-room. That is more private.”

Tina thanked Candace and held on to Bette, guiding her to Candace’s dressing-room. Sonny walked right behind them, looking concerned. He opened the door for the two women and then closed it behind them after he also walked into the dressing-room.

Tina set Bette down on a chair and looked at her.

“Isn’t this wonderful news? You were talking about your sister, telling me that you were thinking about her lately. And now Candace tells you, she met her and her husband is here to………..to what?”

Tina turned her face and looked at Sonny.

“I would like to take you to Kit, Bette. I’m sorry that with this good news, there’s also the bad news about your father. Bette I hear Tina saying that you were thinking about Kit, well she had the same experience. After you left she never stopped looking for you. But it was as if you’d disappeared from the surface of the earth. So after a five year search, she was about to give up, thinking something bad happened to you. That’s when she received this letter from Candace. The rest is history.”

Sonny looked close at Bette’s reaction. Bette was sitting on the chair looking at Sonny as if she was looking at a ghost.

Tina looked at her, half smiling, half wondering what was going through Bette.

“Babe, please say something……….”

Bette looked at Tina and then looked at Sonny.

“I don’t know what to say…………” She said with an soft voice………. “Please you guys, tell me I’m dreaming.”

“No you’re not. Wait, I’ll call Kit.”

Sonny looked at his watch, Kit wouldn’t be asleep. He dialed her number and waited for her to pick up the phone. They had the agreement that he would call her regardless the outcome. He heard the click and then he heard Kit’s voice. A big smile came on his face. Bette watched the change in his face when he apparently heard her sister’s voice.

“Hey babe, I told you that I would call you. There’s someone here who would like to hear your voice. And I have a strange feeling that you want to hear her voice too.”

Without waiting for Kit’s response, Sonny handed his phone to Bette. Bette took the phone over with shaky hands.

“Sonny, hello,………..”

“Is that you, Kit? It’s me Bette.”

There was a silence. Bette didn’t know if the connection was broken so she said again:

“Kit, are you there? Hello……….?”

“Bette? Oh, baby girl, is this you?………..How I long to see you. How are you?”

Bette could hear that her sister was crying and her eyes were filled with tears too.

“I fine, I’m good. I’m hearing your voice, so everything is fine.”

“Bette, baby, there is someone who wants to hear your voice, please, talk to him.”

Before Bette could react, Kit handed her phone over to her father………………