I left my head to see Alice, Tasha and Shane at our table. “I’ll be over at the table with Auntie Alice and Shane, ok?”

Angelica nods her head before leading her brother to the back.

I approach the table and pull out a chair.

“Hey, whats up?” Shane says.

“Hi, Bette.” Tasha says followed by Alice. “Porter!”

“What’s everyone up to?” I ask taking the menu into my hands and glancing through it.

“The usual.” Shane answers.

“But its got a whole lot more interesting now that you are here. ” Alice says with a grin.

I roll my eyes at her before looking back down into the menu.

“So…Did you call Rachel??” Alice asks anxiously.

“Yes, I called her.”

An exciting squealing noise comes from Alice and I look around at the others as we laugh.

“So, how did it go? what happened? what did she say?” Alice’s questions spitting out like fire.

“Wow, playing 20 questions already, Alice.”

My head turns to see Tina standing there.

“Hey, T.” I say.

She takes a seat beside me. “Hey, so what’s with all the questions?”

“Well, Bette here has finally met someone and she called her last night.” Alice spits out in a hurry.

I glance at her expression before looking away.

“You met someone? Bette, who is she?” Tina asks.

“Her name is Rachel.” A small smile marks my face.

“That’s great!” Tina says.

“Back to my questions, Porter. What happened?”

“We have a date for Thursday night.”

“Do you think it’s going to go well?” Shane asks me.

I play around with the napkin that lays in front of my reach as I feel this sudden awkwardness in Tina’s presence to talk about Rachel.

“Yeah, she seems like a great person.” I respond with a smile as I glance at Tina.

“I’m happy for you Bette!” Alice says. “So, T. How’s Danielle?”

“Great, we went on our fourth date last night.”

“Please tell me, you finally hit the sheets.” Alice says.

Tasha nudges Alice. “Alice, come on.”

I can feel the calling on me as I get all glances from everyone except Tina.

“What?” Alice says. “I’m just curious.”

“You’re too personal, Al.” Shane says.

“Look, T and I know, what you guys are doing. We appreciate it, we do. But we know there are going to others that we talk about and its been long enough for that. So don’t go feeling inappropriate.” I cut in.