“Given the circumstances I think that… normal dating rules no longer apply?” Bette looked sweetly at the blonde before continuing. “So I don’t see why we should… ahhm… you know, wait for long?” Bette tried to sound casual about it, not really succeeding much.

“I’m glad to hear that” Tina said and leant over the small kitchen table to give the chef a soft and sweet kiss.

Once they were back in LA they were forced to submerge into their respective working routines, especially since they had been absent for the last couple of days. But still they quite couldn’t get the other out of their heads, or the days they just had spent in the company of the other. Tina found herself staring into space in more than one occasion and the situation for the chef wasn’t much different.

“Why are you looking at me like that?” Bette asked her friend and loyal employee Joan as she was chopping mushrooms along with other vegetables.

“Well… I mean you clearly had a really good time down there… cause you seem, I don’t know… different… relaxed and… happy, bizarrely happy” Joan said almost puzzled and Bette had to laugh at her Sous Chef choice of words.

“Bizarrely happy? Really?” Bette chuckled some more.

“Yeah like… I mean I’ve seen you in other occasions that you took time off after these crazy weddings you choose to do but… never in all these years I’ve seen you return like… this”

“And what is this?” Bette asked imitating Joan’s tone of voice.

“Goofy… smiley… relaxed… genuinely and generally… happy…” Joan said in disbelief. “You also look like you haven’t been sleeping much… ahhhh HA!” Her eyes shot wide open as she inhaled a big amount of air at her realization.

“Joan whatev” Bette started saying but got quickly interrupted.

“YOU’VE MET SOMEONE!” Joan almost shouted too excited knowing that whatever elusive defences her boss would throw at her she was right this time.

“I haven’t… just… don’t… whatever!” Bette stammered and went to the fridges area of her kitchen but Joan followed her.

“Ok… you must tell me everything… who is she? Where did you two meet? How long have you been dating? I mean clearly you’ve been going out with her for quite some time if you took her on holidays with you… what’s her name? Is she a chef?” But Joan’s 20 questions game got interrupted by an annoyed and at the same time amused Bette.

“I have to stop letting Alice inside this fine establishment and especially mingling with you… stop asking questions! And read my lips when I say this… I haven’t met anyone!” Despite her best effort Bette could not lie even if her life depended on it, especially not to her friends.

“Yeah and I’m Wonder Woman, this is just my daytime job… come on Bette! You don’t fool me you know… now out with it! Who is she? Do I know her? And most importantly how old is she? Cause I remember you…”

“That happened once… she was twenty and looked much, much older I swear!… and why am I even bothering? Go do something… just…”

“All right, all right… I’ll stop bothering you with questions but… you know as well as I do that you’ll confess… sooner rather than later” Joan said trying to sound and look threatening but completely failing at it since she had the biggest smile on her face. Finally her cranky and workaholic boss had met someone and it seemed to be going well, and she couldn’t be happier about it.

“Working here is gonna be hell” Bette mumbled also with a big smile on her face as she turned around, opened the doors of the fridge area a literally walked inside her “fridge”.

Oh god… and tonight I’m meeting the looney tunes… maybe I should shoot myself in a leg and pretend it was a robbery… that will certainly hurt less…