“Says Ms A star “ Tina replied

“That’s not what I mean”
“What do you mean ?”
“I mean I cannot kiss you when I want to “
Tina ate some of her sandwich and looked at Bette

“You can kiss me now if you want “

“Another genius idea “ Bette said “You are so much more on the ball rather than me today. I have just been day dreaming “

“Not like you “
“I know – I need to get my head in the game – you are right with what you said earlier”
“About the grades ?” Tina asked – it wasn’t clear what Bette had meant as they hadn’t said much during the walk back to Tina’s place.

“Yeah – dad won’t have a leg to stand on if I can say that we have been together for a month and we have revised together “

“Of course “ Tina said abandoning her sandwich and moving so she could face Bette”
“During the summer we will not be revising or doing school work – that’s when we can start getting into all sorts of mess”

“I made Shane believe that we had already had sex “ Bette grinned

“How did you do that ?”

“She said what you just did – about how much mischief we could get into over the summer so I said -well how do you know that we haven’t already “

“And she bought it ?”
“She did for a few minutes – worth it to see the look of half shock and astonishment on her face”

“Bad Bette”

Bette grinned and talking Tina’s hand she pulled her close. Their lips came together and the kiss immediately became passionate.

“God – you taste so good “ Tina muttered between kisses. Bette was stroking Tina’s hair as they kissed . When the kiss ended Bette looked at Tina

“Thank you for the best week I can ever remember having”

“It will get better”

“I hope so “
“It will “ Tina said “ We are going to take our time getting to know each other and there are going to be times when we do push one another a little further than we have in the past. It will be fine – we just need to trust one another”
“I trust you “
“And I trust you – so many people — especially of our age – so many people pretend to be something that they are not – like Helena pretending to be a human and Jenny Schechter pretending to be sane . You – what struck me right from the start is that you are who you seem to be. You are a bit geeky “