Some Hotel in WeHo

Bette spent a restless night as her mind was going over everything that happened in the last 24 hours. No matter what was Tina’s reason for hiding the truth from her, the fact was that she lied. Honesty was the most important value in Bette’s life. After living for a while in the 21^st century she understood the meaning of little white lies but this situation was much deeper and serious than that.

She turned on TV to put some background noise on because the solitude of the hotel room was suffocating. She got up to go to the bathroom to splash cold water on her face but stopped in her track when she heard ‘No Other Love’, the same song that was playing on their first night together. She slowly turned around and for a moment watched the scene from some movie that had that song on.

It immediately reminded her of the gentle and sweet kisses, soft touch of Tina’s fingers on her skin, the taste of Tina’s lips and the feeling of her warm and intimate embrace after they made love for the first time that night. Her thoughts became entangled and confused from the music as the memories of Tina drove her crazy.

Bette turned down the volume and dialed Alice. “Did you talk to Tina? How is she?”

“I told her that you needed some time alone. She’s…she’s miserable, Bette. She said to tell you that she loves you, always and forever.”

“I know,” Bette sighed. “I love her too but I feel like I have to have some sort of a closure with Christina because Tina deserves my whole heart. I thought I’ll never have that closure and I accepted it but now…”

“Oh my God, Bette,” Alice interrupted with panic in her voice. “What are you going to do?”

“I’m not sure yet,” Bette closed her eyes for a moment and took a deep breath. “I’m going to try and get some sleep. Thanks, Alice…I’ll talk to you later. Do you mind if I’ll stop by again tomorrow?”

“Sure, sure…anything you need, Bette.”

Bette ended the call and stretched on the bed, staring at the shadows on the ceiling, knowing that sleep will never come.